Tom Gillespie

The members of the Sellbridge Board of Management are responsible for managing the company and representing it to the public.

   Tom Gillespie (Director)


Tom Gillespie qualified in 1962 as a Chartered Management Accountant.

He is a Fellow, Institute of Management and Member, Institute of Directors.


Forty years experience at Board level in a wide range of industries in the UK and abroad. He has had hands on responsibility for the management of medium and large sized companies especially in West Africa – Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Cote d’ Ivoire, Liberia and Cameroon.


Between 1984 and 1996 he was Managing Director of the Seaboard companies in Nigeria, with profit responsibility for the largest U.S. investment in Nigeria outside the oil industry. Operations covered flour milling, industrial starch, poultry farming and processing, power generation, port management and international trading.


In 1995 he incorporated Sellbridge Limited in the UK to act as a procurement company for African interests and other trading activities.