• His golden exploits as a billionaire, father, husband and pathfinder
Yes, Julius is 43 today! There is melody in Julius Rone’s back-story. You take everything in, and get caught in its speechless rapture. There is sparkle in the narrative too. His realistic bent, his wittiness, and charming demeanour. Add to that, his infectious tenacity and blithe disposition, which has so far, endeared him to the most exclusive high society circuits, and you have an ideal portrait of charisma and panache in a 43-year-old man.
Julius The Great’, as he is fondly called, is no doubt a rare phenomenon and gift to his generation. While most of his friends, family and business associates are already in the know and appreciate this fact, like the infinite crowd of folk that constitute mere acquaintances to him, they are continually stunned, captivated and humbled by the man, Julius’s infectious humility and generosity of spirit.
The native of Warri, Delta State, emits a rare shine that imbues the day with light and hangs upon the cheek of night, like luminous beams of lighthouses in his native Delta. Like the proverbial shiny jewel in an Ethiop’s ear, Julius’ emits an uncommon glitter too rich to be ignored and too dear to be squandered.
Little wonder he is fondly regarded as the jewel of Nigeria’s Niger Delta region. Without doubt, Julius has nurtured his business, UTM Group, through its teething years to become the global force in energy services and socially responsible enterprise.
In pursuit of fortune and acclaim, Julius understood that a rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gets rid of the rough corners and takes on a lovely polish. Guided by this mindset, he proceeded to establish himself and carve his niche in the cutthroat world of entrepreneurship thus he started UTM Oil and Gas Limited.
The company was incorporated as an independent Oil Trading Company (OTC) in Nigeria. Its trading activities range from refined white products to semi-refined black products. UTM Oil and Gas also explores its formidable network structure to access and expand business relationships wherever profitable and feasible while promoting and sustaining professionalism. In a bid to play down his ingenuity and business savvy, he attributes UTM’s climb to the pinnacle of entrepreneurial success to sheer determination, providence and God’s grace.
Dr. Rone is a good family man, married to a fashionista and leggy beauty, Utibe Umoh-Rone, a Microbiology graduate of the University of Port Harcourt.
Interestingly, fatherhood held a pleasant surprise for Julius . A tender spot stirs curiosity in him even as you read for stories of other men’s adventures in fatherhood and the quality of their relationship with their children. Do they really love each other? How well do most men know their kids and vice versa? What do they talk about? Are they really close? How strong is their bond with their wards? These are some of the questions pulsing in Julius’ heart. Left to him, being a father can be at times so unknowable, notwithstanding the bond between him and his children is so great, he might as well be the man in the moon.
Julius and his children are infinitely bound to each other. So connected are they to each other that they have grown to know each other not as adult and child, father and sons but as filial soul mates and buddies. And surely the future holds great promise to Julius – he believes that in time, the next few years to be precise, he would have figured out how to say all those things that he and his kids hadn’t yet been able to say to each other—anything, everything and sweet fatherly nothings in particular— thus closing and avoiding that awkward gap that estranges too many fathers and sons from each other.
Since his wife, Utibe, gave birth to their first child up till their last child arrived their household as a bundle of joy and testament of God’s infinite love for his family, Julius has spent a great deal of time trying to understand how to be closer and flawlessly paternal to his wards.
