The group managing director/CEO of Transworld Security, a foremost asset protection company, Dr. Victoria Omonigho Ekhomu, has won the 2023 Bill Zalud Memorial Award for Professional Excellence.
In 2017, the International Foundation for Protection Officers (IFPO), in conjunction with Security magazine, announced the inaugural Bill Zalud Memorial Award for Professional Excellence, an award that recognizes one security professional or an organization for professional excellence or outstanding service in the security profession.
Chief executive officer, IFPO, Sandi Davies, said: “The nominations submitted this year were all outstanding supporters of professional excellence. Our esteemed awards committee collectively and unanimously concluded that Mrs. Ekhomu was this year’s recipient.
“We are very proud to have had Bill serve on the IFPO board of directors for more than a decade. His long and outstanding service to our organization made a significant difference.
“Bill had given strategic direction and vision to the foundation. As an industry insider, his leadership was instrumental in making the foundation the success it is today.”
Dr. Ekhomu, who hails from Igueben in Edo State, is also the president of School of Management and Security the and Association of Security abd Safety Operators of Nigeria (AISSON). She has been severally decorated within and outside the country.