Dr Segun Aina is a global professional banking leader, internationally rated change driver, influencer and thought leader, respected futurist and a consistent philanthropist. He had three decades of distinguished banking career and voluntarily retired from active banking service after a six years tenure as Bank MD/CEO. Dr. Aina is the inaugural Chairman of Global Council of Global Banking Education Standards Board (GBEStB) 2017 to date, a past President of Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria
Funke Opeke, is founder and CEO of MainOne. MainOne is West Africa’s leading Business-to-Business Communications services provider that built the region’s first open-access submarine cable system interconnecting Lagos, Nigeria; Accra, Ghana; and Seixal, Portugal in 2010, a $240 million-dollar project that was completed in time and on budget. In January 2015, the company launched operations of MDXi – a $40 million investment resulting in West Africa’s largest Tier III data center which currently hosts major
Dr. Tunde Lemo is the Chairman of Titan Bank and Flutterrwave amongst many other boards that he sits on. Mr. Lemo started his career in Arthur Andersen & Co Chartered Accountants in 1985 and over the years, he held various other positions in Finance and Control as well as providing significant leadership and top management training both in the public and private sectors. He was the Managing Director of Wema Bank plc prior to his
Mary Uduk, is a seasoned regulator at Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) where she joined the commission in 1986 as an assistant financial analyst. Her career as a regulator has spanned many functions and departments in the Commission, from corporate finance, administration, to providing structural, policy and due diligence for capital market transactions. She has also been responsible for managing several landmark capital market projects, including the registration of Capital Market Operators, articulating rules for
Kyari Abba Bukar is the Co-Founder of Trans Sahara Investment Corporation, a Private Equity Firm based in Lagos Nigeria. He was the MD/CEO of Central Securities Clearing System Plc, the Central Securities Depository of the Nigerian Capital markets. Prior to joining CSCS, Kyari was the MD/CEO at ValuCard Nigeria Plc (now Unified Payments Systems Limited). He transformed an organization that was erstwhile unprofitable into an efficient, resourceful, more cohesive and customer centric, institution that quickly
Bola Adesola is the Senior Vice Chairman, Africa, Standard Chartered Bank. Prior to this role, she was Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Standard Chartered Bank Limited, Nigeria. Prior to joining the bank in March 2011, she was an Executive Director at First Bank of Nigeria Plc and prior to that Managing Director of Kakawa Discount House, Nigeria. She also worked in Citibank for 9 years in senior leadership roles in Nigeria and Tanzania.
Bunmi Lawson is the pioneer Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of EDFIN Microfinance Bank Limited. EDFIN prides itself as the first specialized Education Microfinance Bank with unique and well researched products and services tailored to cater for the needs of its customers and the Education Ecosystem. EDFIN Microfinance Bank under the eminent leadership of Bunmi Lawson officially commenced operations in April 2019 with its registered office at Surulere Lagos state and has projections to grow into
John Obaro is the founder and CEO of SystemSpecs, the indigenous software company most famous for the Remita e-payment solution which powers Nigeria’s Treasury Single Account policy. Before Obaro started the company in 1992, he had built a decade-long successful career as a software developer and IT executive. He was among the team, at the now defunct International Merchant Bank (IMB), that built Nigeria’s first ever online banking platform.
