He is a Director of the Akwa Ibom State Luxury Estate, as well as the Founder and Managing Director of Westgate Group of Companies, an integrated multi-sector, wholly indigenous enterprise group, with Westgate Lifecare Limited, a consumer retail chain (owners and operators of Westgate Malls) Westgate Global Trust Limited, a business consulting and enterprise fortune turnaround firm, Westgate Exchange Limited, licenced currency firm in Nigeria, Dubai and UK, Westgate Urban Renewal Limited, engaged in engineering, civil construction and infrastructure Building, Northill Power Limited, a renewable energy firm, etc as composite members.
He brings to DASAC a strong organisational and enterprise corporate governance institutionalzation, as well as business conceptualization-to-realization capabilities, backed by robust analytic and strategic leadership skills garnered over the last 3 decades in the banking and financial services industry, as well as the hands-on entrepreneurship pursuits perspective.
He started his banking career as an Executive Assistant in Zenith Bank Plc in 1992 and rose through the ranks to the position of Assistant Manager, then moved to the then Devcom Bank, Gulf bank, and finally Fidelity Bank, before retiring as the Senior Manager in charge of Non-Bank Financial Institutions and Resource Management Division. His core career strength and competences are, commercial banking operations, marketing and corporate banking, value chain optimization, and corporate ethics acculturation.
He is an accomplished entrepreneur, a successful business consultant, a life coach with expertise in team building and mentorship, leadership and enterprise culture institutionalization.
Obong Churchill holds a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA), and Bachelor of Science degree in Banking and Finance. He is a Fellow of the Nigerian Association of Technology Engineers. He has attended numerous career, intellectual self enhancement, and leading enterprise change dynamics courses in Nigeria, Dubai and the UK.
In recognition of his passion and contributions to the development of Ibiono, Akwa Ibom State and the Nigerian Nation at large, Mr. Churchill Udoh was installed as the Isantim of Ibiono Ibom.  He is an active politician in the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), and a stakeholder in the Greater Ibiono Ibom and Akwa Ibom Leadership Project.