Adewumi has accumulated over THIRTY (30) years cognate experience since graduating in 1989. He holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration with specialisation in Finance from the Obafemi Awolowo University (formerly the University of Ife). He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1991 and he is currently a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria. He is also a holder of Higher National Diploma in Accountancy, from the Ondo State Polytechnic, where he won the overall best graduating student prizes in Accountancy and of the institution for the 1988/1989 session.

He is presently the Managing Director/CEO of LeadCapital Plc, a prominent player in the Nigerian capital market. Before his appointment in September 2007 at LeadCapital, he was the Financial Controller cum Head – Country Finance of Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria Limited, a subsidiary of Standard Chartered Bank Plc, UK with effect from May 2006 after thirteen years of diverse banking experience at Leadbank Plc.

His career at Leadbank started with an appointment as the Deputy Head of the Internal Audit Department in November 1992. He later assumed the position of the Head of Internal Audit Department in late 1993. He served for four years as a member of the Executive Committee of the Committee of Chief Inspectors of Banks in Nigeria. He held this position till September 2001 when he was assigned further responsibilities as the Head of Financial Services Group; supervising Operations, Financial Control and Information Technology Departments.

Mr Adewumi has attended various courses locally and abroad including the Chief Executives Programme at the Lagos Business School (2013), Bank Financial Controllers course (SCB – Johannesburg, 2007), Senior Management Programme at the Lagos Business School (1998) and the Strategic Bank Management Programme in Paris (1999). He is also an alumnus of the International Banking Summer School (Edinburgh, 2002).

He at various times represented the Leadbank Plc on the Board of its three affiliated companies, Royal Trust Assurance Limited, Lead Securities and Investments Limited and LBV Capital Limited. He also represented the Bank on the Board of the Nigerian Interbank Settlement System Plc (NIBSS). He was until recently a board member of CrusaderSterling Pension Limited.

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