EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR; BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Summary
International Banker with 25+ years of business growth and success achieved through engaging Chief Executive Officers, Chief Investment Officers, Finance Directors and Trust Boards. Excellent network across the African, American, Asian and European business spectrum, through extensive business travel. Excellent ability in articulating complex information to audiences of varying sophistication and cultural background.
Specialties:
Private Banking | Client coverage | Corporate Banking | Corporate Finance | Capital Markets | Investment Banking | Private Equity | IRD | Trade | Commodities | Cash Management & international trade | Managing sales teams across cultures and geographies | Corporates- FMCG, Oil &Gas, Telcos | Financial Institutions | Development Organisations | non-Bank Financial Institutions
Experience
Pause Factory; Africa’s Emotional Intelligence Academy
Leadership Member
September 2018 – Present
Lagos, Nigeria
SPIAG
Managing Director-Africa
April 2017
Buchs SG, Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland
SPIAG Multi-Family Office, Buchs, Switzerland – Managing Director-Head of Africa
Nigerian-American Chamber of Commerce Kaduna
Member of the Board – 3 years and 1 month
Lagos, Nigeria
Member of the Board of Directors Nigerian-American Chamber of Commerce(NACC), Lagos, Nigeria
Access Bank Plc
Senior Banking Advisor
February 2012 – February 2017 (5 years 1 month)
Lagos, Nigeria
Standard Chartered Bank Plc
Africa Regional Head- Financial Institutions Group and Development Oganizations
June 2008 – January 2012 (3 years 8 months)
Lagos, Nigeria
Standard Charter Bank
European Head of Funds Management
June 2005 – June 2008 (3 years 1 month)
London, United Kingdom
HSBC Global Banking and Markets
7 years 1 month
European Head of Pension Funds
June 2002 – June 2005 (3 years 1 month)
London, United Kingdom
EMEA Head of Marketing and Sales Exchange Traded Derivatives
June 1998 – June 2002 (4 years 1 month)
London, United Kingdom
HSBC Securities (fmr CM&M)
Desk Manager
June 1991 – June 1998 (7 years 1 month)
Chicago, Il
Bear Stearns & Co.
3 years 9 months
Desk Manager
August 1990 – June 1991 (11 months)
Greater Chicago Area
Equity Account Executive
October 1987 – August 1990 (2 years 11 months)
Boston, Massachusetts
Education
Evanston Township High School – Diploma
University of Massachusetts Amhers