Champion Breweries Plc has appointed Mr. Samson Aigbedo and Mrs. Helen A. Umanah as new directors following the resignation of Mr. Didier Francis Martial Leleu. Aigbedo was the Head of Brewery Operations at the company's headquarters in Lagos before this appointment. She was also the Confidential Secretary to the Deputy High Commissioner, Nigerian High Commission, London from 1980 to 1984.

Back in Nigeria, Mrs. Umanah worked as the Executive Secretary to the Project Manager of Harbour Works (Nigeria) Limited, Personal Assistant to the Chairman Niger Holdings Limited and the Executive Secretary to the Chairman/Managing Director of the defunct ABC Merchant Bank Nigeria Limited. She has been on the Audit Committee of Champion Breweries as shareholders' representative from 2011 till date and was the MD/CEO, A-Hani Ventures Limited (Contractors to Exxon Mobil in Eket, Akwa Ibom State, Shell, NAFCON and NNPC).