Engineer Mohammed Sani Bello is a COREN (Council of Registered Engineers of Nigeria) member. He started his career with Nigeria Tobacco Company (N.T.C) in 1967 as a Trainee Production Engineer and rose to the rank of Production Manager before leaving in 1973 to join Federal Superphosphate Fertilizer Company (F.S.F.C) Limited in Kaduna. At F.S.F.C Ltd, he joined the Nigerian Project Team that worked with the Japanese Project Management Team charged with the responsibility of establishing the first indigenous fertilizer manufacturing plant in Nigeria. He eventually took over from the Japanese Production Manager in 1976. In 1978, he was promoted and appointed the first General Manager of the F.S.F.C Ltd.

In 1980, Engineer Mohammed Sani Bello joined the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (N.N.P.C) when the Federal Government of Nigeria appointed him as the first General Manager of the newly built and largest refinery in Kaduna.

In NNPC, he held several top management positions which include Group Deputy Managing Director, Operations; Group Executive Director, Operations with added responsibility of covering the duties of Group Managing Director. He retired from the NNPC in 1993 as the Group Executive Director, Refineries and Petrochemicals.

He is currently the Chairman/CEO of Sanbell Engineering Nigeria Limited, a company formed in 1994 by a group of Engineers providing Engineering Consultancy and Project and Plant Management. He is also on the Board of HPI Africa (Nig) Limited amongst many others. He has previously served on the Board of Kaduna State Water Board, Kaduna Polytechnic, Hyson (Nig) Limited, KCDB and Afribank Nigeria Plc.

Engineer Mohammed Sani Bello is a Fellow of the Nigerian Society of Chemical Engineers, Institute of Petroleum (U.K), Polymer Institute of Nigeria, Faculty of Risk Management of Nigeria and Nigerian Institute of Safety Professionals and also a member of Nigerian Society of Engineers.
He has attended several courses within and outside Nigeria on Executive Programs.

He started his career with Ernst & Whiney (Chartered Accountants) and later Arthur Anderson & Co (Chartered Accountants) between 1984 and 1987. During this period of his career, he had extensive involvement in the planning, supervision and execution of statutory audits, purchase investigation, internal control reviews, staff pension scheme reviews, accounting assistance, financial projections preparations etc. In the process, he has had considerable exposure to accounting and auditing practice in organisations operating in variety of business sectors such as Oil & Gas, Pharmaceuticals, Research, Construction, Agricultural Production and Trading.

Between 1988 and 1994, he worked with a number of companies in the manufacturing and trading sectors where he held senior management positions which include Finance/Accounts Manager, General Manager, Finance/Accounts Director and Executive Director. During this period, for one of the companies, he was extensively involved in the negotiation and securing of African Development Bank Export Stimulation Loan and International Finance Corporation/African Enterprises Fund Loan.

In 1995, he joined FSB International Bank Plc where his banking career began and ended in 2005. During this period, he has been saddled with various responsibilities which include Head, General Internal Services; Head, Treasury Operations; Head, Consumer Banking; Head, Commercial Banking; Ikeja Branch Manager, Kaduna North Branch Manager, Relief Manager-Apapa Branch, Acting Lagos Area Manager, Acting Group Head, Commercial and Branch Banking Group. He resigned from FSB International Bank Plc as an Assistant General Manager and Regional Manager (North) overseeing the Bank’s branches in Kano, Kaduna, Maiduguri and Gombe States. He has attended several financing, banking and management courses and participated in several strategic planning workshops/seminars in Nigeria and abroad.