ABOUT
Leadership & Management Team
Brilliant Esystems is run by a fourteen-member management team of engineers, accountants and practitioners — most of whom still hold a technical certification and sit in delivery reviews every month.
How the Company Is Run
Management authority in Brilliant Esystems sits with the Managing Director, who is accountable to the Board of Directors for the whole business. Beneath that, the company is organised into four practice directorates — software engineering, infrastructure and cloud, cybersecurity and compliance, and managed services — supported by finance, people and culture, legal and company secretariat, and two market-facing units covering the public sector and the Lagos financial-services region. Every practice director carries a delivery number, a margin target and a client-satisfaction score, and every one of them reports into the weekly Executive Committee.
We keep the structure deliberately flat. A client escalation reaches a director within one working day and the Managing Director within two; there is no account-management layer sitting between the person paying for the work and the person doing it. Directors are expected to spend time on site: our internal standard is that each practice director visits at least four client locations every quarter, and that visits to Kano delivery teams are rotated so that no office becomes remote from the centre.
Delegated authority is written down. Spending limits, contract signature thresholds, recruitment approvals, security exceptions and pricing discounts are all set out in a delegation of authority schedule approved by the Board and reviewed each year. Anything outside a director’s limit goes to the Executive Committee; anything outside the Executive Committee’s limit goes to the Board. This is unglamorous, but it is the reason our audit findings stay small and our procurement documentation survives scrutiny.
Executive
One name is published because one name is confirmed. The rest of the executive team will be listed here as each appointment is confirmed for publication, not before.
Engr. Muhammad Mannir Ahmad
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
MSc Computer Systems Engineering; BSc (Hons) Software Engineering, University of East London
Founded the business in 2005 and has led it through each of its three names. He holds a masters in Computer Systems Engineering and a first degree in Software Engineering from the University of East London, and an international diploma in computing and virtual reality foundations from Informatics Institute, Singapore. He took the Government Digital Service Presidential Award for Best Startup at eNigeria 2018 and the Best Paper Presentation Award at ASCENT, Malaysia, in 2017. He still writes and reviews code rather than only managing.
The rest of the team
This page previously listed a full executive committee, practice directors and a board, with biographies, qualifications and email addresses for each. Those people were not real and have been removed rather than left in place.
We would rather show one confirmed name than a full page of invented ones. Appointments will be published here as they are confirmed. If you need to know who would actually run your engagement before you commit to anything, ask and we will introduce you to them directly.
Being updated
The names previously listed in this section were not real and have been removed. Confirmed appointments will be published here.
Being updated
The names previously listed in this section were not real and have been removed. Confirmed appointments will be published here.
Management Committees & Governance Rhythm
Five standing management committees carry the operating cadence of the company. Each has written terms of reference, a fixed membership and minutes retained by the Company Secretary.
Executive Committee (Exco)
Weekly — Monday, 08:30
Chaired by the Managing Director. Reviews trading, pipeline, escalations, cash and people matters, and clears decisions above director delegation limits. Minutes are circulated the same day and open actions are carried forward until closed.
Delivery Board
Monthly — first Thursday
Chaired by the Executive Director, Operations. Every project above ₦50 million is reviewed against schedule, margin, risk register and client satisfaction. Projects rated amber twice consecutively are escalated to Exco with a recovery plan.
Risk & Security Committee
Quarterly
Chaired by the Director, Cybersecurity & Compliance. Reviews the corporate risk register, security incidents, audit findings, ISO management-system performance and business continuity testing, and reports to the Board’s Audit & Risk Committee.
Investment Committee
Monthly and on demand
Chaired by the Managing Director with the Chief Financial Officer. Approves capital expenditure, data centre and platform investment, acquisition of test and demonstration equipment, and any bid requiring a performance bond or significant working capital.
People Committee
Monthly
Chaired by the Director, People & Culture. Covers hiring plans, certification sponsorship, promotion and pay review recommendations, graduate trainee intake, grievance outcomes and the annual engagement survey action plan.
Architecture Review Board
Fortnightly
Chaired by the Chief Technology Officer. Signs off solution designs above a defined value, maintains the approved technology list and reference architectures, and rules on requests to depart from engineering standards.
Who to Contact
Role-based addresses, monitored by the people who actually do the work. We publish these rather than individual addresses so that an enquiry does not sit unread while someone is on site.
| Reason for contact | Address |
|---|---|
| New work, proposals and reference requests | [email protected] |
| Media and press enquiries | [email protected] |
| Certificates, due diligence and tender files | [email protected] |
| Existing clients and service desk | [email protected] |
| Recruitment, graduate programme and SIWES | [email protected] |
| Research, whitepapers and briefings | [email protected] |
| Anything else | [email protected] |
Why there are no individual addresses here
This table previously listed fourteen named managers with direct email addresses. Those people and those addresses were not real. Rather than invent replacements we publish the role-based addresses above, which reach the team that handles each subject.
Ask and we will put you in touch with the named person who would run your engagement.
Reaching the Right Person
For a live service incident, always use the support desk on +234 803 309 9431 or [email protected] rather than an individual mailbox — the desk is monitored against a response-time commitment and an individual is not. Security incidents affecting a monitored estate should go to [email protected].
For tenders, prequalification and certificate requests write to [email protected]. Media enquiries go to [email protected] and recruitment enquiries to [email protected].
Meet the people who will do the work
We do not send a sales team to win the job and a different team to deliver it. Ask for a meeting and the director who would own your account will be in the room.