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Ayodeji Gbeleyi is currently the Managing Partner/CEO of GA Capital Limited, a niche-player advisory firm in the Infrastructure Project Finance, Public-Private Partnerships, Public Finance Management and Regulatory space. He is an ICAN Award-Winning Chartered Accountant. A Fellow of both the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria and an MBA Holder, University of Navarra IESE, Spain, with broad skills-set and cross-functional expertise in Public Policy Making, Public Finance Management, Public-Private Partnerships (PPP), Corporate Governance & Strategy Formulation, Project Finance, Treasury Risks Management, Investment Banking, Financial Advisory, Multi-Stakeholders Relationship Management, Financial Control & Reporting, Banking Operations, and Auditing. He is also an alumnus of the prestigious London Business School, and Lagos Business School. Attended several local and foreign capacity development programmes at Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Wharton School University of Pennsylvania, etc.
He has over three decades post qualification hands-on experience and exposure in diverse sectors and multi-cultural work environments including manufacturing, fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG), banking, insurance, telecoms, power, infrastructure and public administration. He has led series of large ticket and complex infrastructure project transactions across economic and social sectors.
His private sector experience in senior management up to C-Suite roles spanned Nestle Plc, Nigerian Bottling Company Plc, Marina International Bank, Lead Merchant Bank, Guardian Express Bank Plc, Econet Wireless Nigeria, Vodacom Nigeria, Vmobile Nigeria, Celtel Nigeria and African Advisory Services. He was Treasurer at three different banks during his banking career.
Ayodeji has criss-crossed widely across the globe and extensively involved in leading International Roadshows aimed at attracting much-needed Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs) into Nigeria. He led the Finance Team of Vmobile as the Chief Treasury Officer that spearheaded the deal negotiation culminating in the successful raising in September 2005 of over US$1.1 Billion multi-currency and multi-sourced project finance. The transaction, a blockbuster in the annals of Project Finance in Nigeria was voted the “Europe Middle-East & Africa (EMEA) Telecoms Deal of the Year 2005” by ProjectFinance Magazine a publication of Euromoney Institutional Investor Plc, UK, a global authority in the reporting and analysis of developments in the project and infrastructure financing arena. Similarly, the deal was nominated for the “ThisDay Newspaper 2005 Transaction of the Year”. The transaction included components for vendor financing from OEMS; Ericsson, Motorolla, Siemens, Harris and Huawei to fund the flagship Project ROSE (Roll-Out Service Everywhere).
Furthermore, Ayo played a pivotal role in the negotiation of the circa US$1 Billion investment transaction that resulted in the May 2006 acquisition of 65 percent equity stake in Vmobile by Celtel International B.V. In this regard he championed on record till date and in a seamless manner the single largest Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) of US$1 Billion foreign exchange inflow into Nigeria without any disruption to the market nor creating a US$/Naira rate volatility in collaboration with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
He is a former Honourable Commissioner for Finance in the Lagos State Government Executive Council with concurrent responsibility for the oversight of the Office of PPP. In that capacity, he doubled as the Special Adviser to the Governor and the pioneer Director-General of the Lagos State Office of PPP, the Agency driving the Government-to-Business (G2B) collaboration anchor policy thrust for the acceleration of infrastructure delivery and provision of social services towards the actualization of the Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) Administration’s vision of making Lagos Africa’s Model Megacity. Amongst multiple other Reforms championed, he anchored the first ever publication of the International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) compliant Government Audited Financial Statements in Nigeria in 2015. He was headhunted in a global recruitment process as the pioneer Director-general to set up the Lagos State Office of PPP, a pacesetter agency in Nigeria.
He also led the closure of one of the largest sub-National Bonds in Africa of N87.5 Billion (circa US$565 million) in 2013, Two Tranches of the World Bank Development Policy Operation of US$200 Million Concessionary Facility each, French Development Agency 20-year tenor US$100 Million concessionary Loan, World Bank US$42 Million Education Intervention Facility and the upgrade of the State’s National Long Term Rating by Fitch Ratings to “AA+ (nga) with Stable Outlook”. He equally played a pivot role in the setting up, in conjunction with Infrastructure Concessioning & Regulatory Commission (ICRC), the Nigeria PPP Network (NPPPN) for sector-wide knowledge sharing and capacity building for both public and private sectors’ practitioners.
He is currently the Chairman, Board of Directors - Axa-Mansard Health Limited, Chairman, Board of Directors – Northwest Quadrant Development Limited (& Alaro City Development FZC – Lekki Free Zone), Member - Statutory Board Audit Committee, Stanbic-IBTC Bank Plc, Member - BusinessDay Editorial Advisory Board, and Chairman Board of Governors, Baptist College of Theology Lagos.
He is the immediate past Chairman, Board of Directors – Yola Electricity Distribution Company Plc, and previously served as Member - Board of Directors Volkswagen of Nigeria, Chairman - Board of Directors Lekki Concession Company Limited (LCC), Director, Med-view Airline Plc, Chairman - Lagos State Mortgage Board (LagosHOMS), Member - Cooperative Home Ownership Incentive Scheme (CHOIS) Board and Council Member – Lagos Chamber of Commerce & Industry (LCCI), Chairman, Board - Development Office, College of Medicine (University of Ibadan), Board Member, - Lagos State Public Procurement Agency, Member - Lagos Innovation Council, amongst others.
Mr. Ayodeji Ariyo Gbeleyi is happily married with children and has deep passion for infrastructure development, sustainable economic growth and development, social inclusion, and philanthropy. He enjoys reading, travelling, cycling, playing table-tennis, watching football, and listening to music. Ayodeji is from the Onigbesa Family of Oshodi Land and environs in Lagos State.
Madu Hamman holds a bachelor’s degree in Geography (1982) from University of Maiduguri. He is a Senior Honorary member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria and an alumnus of IMD Lausanne, Switzerland. He has had about 30 years’ experience in mortgage banking and 8 years in commercial and merchant banking with specific emphasis to credit analysis, banking operations, corporate finance, business support services and human resource management.
He was appointed as Managing Director of Abbey Mortgage Bank Plc, one of the leading mortgage banks in Nigeria in June 2020. As Managing Director in the past 2 years he has supervised and coordinated the restructuring, recovery and growth of Abbey into the fastest growing Mortgage Bank. Before then he was the Executive Director Finance and Administration from 2008 to 2020 of Abbey Mortgage Bank Plc. He was also the General Manager in charge of Human Resources and Corporate Resources from 1998 to 2008. He joined Abbey as a Senior Manager and one of the pioneer staff in 1992.
His commercial/merchant banking career spanned across financial institutions such as the African International Bank (former BCCI) rising from the position of Executive Trainee to a senior management position from 1984 to 1990 before joining the corporate banking department of New World Merchant Bank in 1991.
At Abbey he anchored and directed the planning, integration and implementation of mission critical projects such as Orbit, the core banking application that Abbey used for about 10 years, coordinated activities of foreign private equity investors from due diligence to funding in Abbey in 2007. He also anchored sourcing FDI funding to finance mortgage and housing development for the bank in 2008/2009. He coordinated all the support functions in Abbey for a period of about 12 years.
Madu has attended several courses in Management, Strategy, Leadership and Corporate Governance both locally and offshores.
He is happily married with children
Zubaida Umar possesses a rich mix of professional experience in public policy design and implementation, public-private partnership management and international finance. She has a proven track record of strong leadership, innovation and business growth.
Mrs. Umar is a graduate of world class universities including the famous Robert Gordon University Business School, Scotland, where she obtained an MSc in International trade. She also holds a BSc in Business Administration from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. She is an active member of both the Chartered Institute of Bankers and the Institute of Credit Administration of Nigeria.
Zubaida has over 20 years of financial advisory as well as strategy development and project management experiences in domestic debt management and mortgage banking in Nigeria.
Until her appointment as Executive Director, Mrs. Umar was General Manager, Zonal Coordination with the Bank where she was instrumental in implementing various reform processes the Bank had initiated. She has helped develop expertise in major areas of ICT implementation, policy formulation and risk management. In that capacity, she had also overseen the execution of high value projects ranging from technological and process solutions, design of organizational architecture all aimed at instituting best practice protocols in the Bank.
Mrs. Umar has held other top management positions with the Bank. She was at various times Group Head, Corporate Communications, Head, Policy and Strategy as well as Head of Organizational resourcing of FMBN.
Through various cutting-edge initiatives, she has successfully spearheaded the attainment and surpassing of NHF targets in various states of the federation. She is currently among those leading the charge for a new national housing policy that will cater for all contributors to the scheme in the long run.
Before Joining FMBN, Mrs Umar had worked with the Debt Management Office (DMO) between 2001 and 2006 where she was an integral part of a team that successfully monitored and managed both domestic and foreign debts of Nigeria.
The new ED has attended various courses in leadership, advanced management and executive management, including securitisation and Housing Finance Programs at the Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania, USA; Communication/Project Management in Nevada, USA; Affordable housing programs in Malaysia; Mortgage banking strategies in Singapore and several other courses in the United Kingdom.
Mrs. Umar brings a broad Intellectual experience and knowledge to bear in the services the Bank offers to its clients.
Lukman Olayiwola Mustapha is a seasoned banker, professional accountant and enterpreneur. He has over 25 years of cognate experience in a wide range of professions. This includes retail, agency, commercial and mortgage banking; business development and relationship management, strategic planning and financial/risk management. He also has expert-level competences in development financial mobilisation and structuring, effective team leadership, change management, advanced corporate business negotiations and strategy.
Prior to his appointment as the Executive Director, Loans & Mortgage Services (L&MS), Mustapha was the Divisional Head, Business & Commercial Banking with First City Monument Bank (FCMB) Plc. In this position, he was responsible for driving the implementation of the Bank’s Business and Commercial Banking strategy. This involved managing the Bank’s relationship with customers, providing leadership and direction to the Division and ensuring the Bank’s prominence in identified sectors. He was also responsible for providing a full spectrum of financial services to clients, boosting liquidity and profitability, sales strategy development, staff capacity building and ensuring that the Bank’s business activities/processes are streamlined to achieve stated corporate objectives and goals.
Other aspects of his responsibilities as the FCMB Divisional Head included overseeing & driving execution of strategic business development and relationship management within the various Business Segments in the Region and the creation of low riks portfolio, development of an effective liability generation system amongst other related management functions.
Mustapha’s over 25-years professional career spans several financial insitutions. Starting from SGBN in 1992, Dynasty Group in 1994, FMBN in 1996, NAL Merchant Bank in 1997, Inland Bank in 2001, FinBank Plc in 2006 to FCMB Plc in 2008 till his appointment, Mustapha initiated and overseen the execution of multi-billion naira projects and built a remarkable portfolio of accomplishments and impact.
At FCMBN, he pioneered the Bank’s participation in the Home Grown School Feeding Programme. His efforts resulted in the on boarding of 17 States, financial inclusion of over 286,000 hitherto unbanked Food Vendors and Caterers and FCMBN donation of a Web Portal to simplify and ease of administration of the programme
Mustapha also ensured FCMB’s active participation in the landmark CBN Anchor Borrowers Programme. His efforts led to financial inclusion for over 643,000 Peasant Farmers with provision of loans totaling N2.5Billion. This feat boosted Rice, Wheat, Castor and Soya beans cultivation and production with reputable Conglomerates as Anchors.
He also leveraged the Anchor Borrowers Programme and the Home Grown Feeding Programme to ensure that the Northern Region took the lead in the launching of Agency Banking as a direct & viable alternative. In less than 2yrs of debuting this initiative, the Northern Region brought banking services through this means to remote and unbanked locations with the appointment of over 10,000 Agents who have opened accounts and rendering financial services to over 931, 500 hitherto unbanked Nigerians.
Mustapha also optimized utilisation of MSMED Funds at Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and Bank of Industry (BOI). He supervised the building of a robust franchise for FCMB as a Bank of choice in the North for SMEs in accessing the N220Billion MSMED Funds. Over 35 SME customers of the Bank in the Region accessed over a billion Naira from the funds mainly for Agric and small scale manufacturing purpose and with close supervision and monitoring the accounts are operating smoothly.
As the South West Regional Manager of First Inland Bank, Mustapha also recorded remarkable feats across different sectors. In Agriculture He structured an equity investment of N200Million and a debt of N300M for the Shonga Farms (otherwise known as the Zimbabwe Farmers Scheme) in Kwara State. Aside from this, he also the Bank into several other Commercial Agric transactions running into Billions of Naira.
In the housing sector, he was instrumental to the development of 4 (four) different Housing Estates providing accommodation to over 3,000 low – middle income people in Ondo, Ekiti & Kwara States and the construction of a Modern Market in Ilorin.
As the First Inland Bank Regional Head for the North, he was involved in the packaging of Bank Guarantees of about N10Billion to Family Homes Funds on behalf 3 States Government in the North for the benefits teachers and civil servants in their respective States.
Mustapha possesses an impressive education profile. He holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Ilorin, Ilorin (1997), and BSc (Hons) Management Studies (2.1) from the Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto (1990).
He has attended several executive courses at Harvard Business School, Boston, USA, Stanford Graduate School of Business, California, USA, and the Lagos Business School, Nigeria.
Mustapha has also attended other courses locally and abroad covering key aspects such as corporate account management, international trade financing, public private partnerships, leadership, team-work and people management, bank leding & credit administration, treasury management, financial reporting leadership, mergers and acquisition amongst others.
As a result of his huge career accomplishments, Mustapha has been a much sought after addition to several Board positions. He is currently the Chairman, Board of Trustees, SOBI 101.9FM, Ilorin. Management Consultant, Regent Microfinance Bank Ltd, Management Consultant, Balogun Gambari MFB Ltd. He was the Director, FinInsurance Co. Ltd, Abuja between 2010 – 2013.
Mustapha is happily married with children
Kingsley Chukwuma is a charismatic, dynamic and professional leader with extensive and significant senior leadership / management experience with proven track records. His leadership skills and experience gained over the past 25 years spanned across the ICT, Engineering, Project Management and Business Development both in Nigeria and abroad. A highly resulted oriented leader with work experience that cuts across several key sectors of the economy such as: facility/housing maintenance, oil and gas, government parastatals, equipment integrity and related problems in energy sectors and field operations, etc.
Kingsley honed his leadership skill at an early age, having played a leadership role as the General Officer Commanding (GOC) during his paramilitary activities in his days in University of Benin and now a Statesman GOC. Co-founded Kinotech I.T Professionals Ltd in Port Harcourt in 2000, he headed a team of I.T Professionals on an Intel Network Administration project that consistently hit project milestones ahead of designated deadlines. Part safety team at Badger Daylighting Inc. In Alberta, Canada and served as project team lead on maintenance of all Husky plants in lloydminster, Alberta, delivering enormous success in the day to day Administrations, project finance, inventory procurement and overall management. He has over the years distinguished himself as a charismatic leader who is able to motivate his team to achieve and exceed set goals and objectives. He has excellent interpersonal skills and impeccable written and oral communication skills. He has proven ability to manage and direct his team to success in this our ever evolving multi-disciplinary team environments.
He has a first degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering in the university of Benin, Nigeria, and Post Graduate Certifications in Heavy oil Power Engineering, Lakeland Institute. Alberta Canada, 2017. Also a degree in Business Administration, Lakeland College, 2016, and during the cause of his professional growth, he acquired a number of Internationally recognized certifications that include CompTia A+ Certified, Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), MS Windows Server 2010. Kingsley Chukwuma’s mission and desire in this new leadership role is to enable as many as possible diligent Nigerian citizens to own a decent home/ accommodation.
Abimbola A. Asein is an experienced Architect with several years’ experience working in the public sector. She is representing the Federal Ministry of Works & Housing (FM&WH) on the FMBN Board as a Non-Executive Director.
She is currently the Head of the Public-Private Partnership Unit at the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing where she is responsible for several high-level professional functions. This includes project design, monitoring and implementation, construction supervision of the Ministry’s projects, coordination of professional documentation and payments, preparation of technical reports and recommendations, and overseeing the Ministry’s Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Functions amongst others.
Some of the key projects Arc. Asein has handled comprise Construction Supervision as Project Architect for the Africa First Ladies Peace Mission House, Abuja, Police Service Commission, Abuja; International Cancer Center, Abuja; Finance and Account Building, Federal Ministry of Housing and Urban Development HQ, Mabushi, Abuja; Design and Construction Supervision for the Reconstruction of the Press Centre, Radio House, Federal Ministry of Information and National Orientation, Abuja; and Design and preparation of construction documents and drawings as Project Architect for the Construction of Zonal Information Center, Abuja in the six geo-political zones of Nigeria.
Arc Asein has also been involved in the design and preparation of construction documents and drawings for the Reconstruction of Existing Information Center, Kaduna for the Federal Ministry of Information and National Orientation Abuja, Energy Audit for the Federal Ministry of Lands Housing and Urban Development organized by the Ministry in collaboration with German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), and the creation of Energy Efficiency Guidelines for Nigeria organized by the Federal Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development organized by the Ministry with GIZ/NESPP).
Arc. Asein is also a competent leader. She has been the Head of several PPP Project Delivery Teams (PDT) including that of the Highways Development & Management Initiative (HDMI), which involves the concession of Twelve (12) Pilot Federal Highway Corridors. The concession process is almost concluded.
She has Post Graduate Diploma (ICHUD), from the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies, Rotterdam (2014), a Master of Science MSc. (1997-1999) - and a Bachelor of Science (BSc.) in Architecture BSc 1991-1997 from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria.
In the course of a successful and brilliant career, Arc. Asein has acquired several professional qualifications. She is a Full Member of, the Nigeria Institute of Architects, a Member of, the Architects Registration Council of Nigeria (ARCON), and a Member, of the Society of Construction Industry Arbitrators.
Arc. Asein is happily married with children.
Ejezie, Sandra Nkechi is a dynamic and result-driven Executive with a highly successful background in the financial services sector, passion-driven for achieving organizational and managerial objectives in actualizing corporate growth.
She is a strategic and result-oriented individual who has been involved in Senior Management Strategic Retreats geared toward Corporate Positioning in a dynamic environment. A team player with vast experience in public sector alliance, networking, troubleshooting, lobbying for organization vision and mission actualization with zero tolerance for inefficient and ineffective performance.
Before she was appointed the Non-Executive Board Member representing public interest on the FMBN Board, Nkechi was the Managing Director, Crest Valley Continental Construction Ltd.
Nkechi has over five years’ experience in the stockbroking and forex marketing industry. Between 2002 to December 2006, she was the Head of Operations at Cashville Investment and Securities Limited, a Stockbroking Firm and Member of The Nigerian Stock Exchange. She later moved from there to head Whittis Bureau De Change, Abuja as the Managing Director.
Nkechi has a broad educational profile that includes banking and finance and economics. She attended the Institute of Management Technology, Enugu, and holds a Bachelor of Science BSc in Banking and Finance from the Enugu State University of Science & Technology, Enugu. She is currently pursuing her Master’s Programme in International Relations at Baze University, Abuja.
As a politician, Nkechi has served ln various capacities in the All-Progressives Congress (APC). This includes Member, Appeal Committee, Gubernatorial Primaries Elections in Ondo State (Sept. 2016), Chairman, Congress Appeal Committee in Plateau State ( 2017), Member, Appeal Committee, APC National Convention (2018), Member, Committee on Party Continuous Membership Registration in Jigawa State (2021). She was also Member of, Presidential Visitation Panel to the Federal Polytechnic, Nekede, Imo Stare (2021), Member, of Screening Committee, Gubernatorial Primaries Elections in Ekiti State (2022), and Member, Budget Sub-Committee, APC National Convention (2022).
Nkechi is widely traveled and has attended many trainings locally and internationally. She is from Ihiala LGA in Anambra State and is blessed with Children.
Chika Okey-Nwangwu is a Chartered Accountant with over two decades of professional experience’ in financial analysis, bank examination and surveillance, and distress resolution in the banking sector. She is representing the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on the FMBN board as a Non-Executive Director.
Mrs Okey-Nwangwu is a Deputy-Director in the Other Financial Institution Supervision Department, CBN, and she is primarily assigned to provide effective coordination of the Primary Mortgage Bank (PMB) sub-sector. She supervises the assessment of PMB’s financial soundness indicator, provides inputs to Financial Industry Report on PMB sub-sector, coordinates the bi-yearly Mortgage Bankers’ Committee meeting and contributes to the review of policy documents for the mortgage sub-sector.
Besides the supervision of PMB subsector, Mrs Okey-Nwangwu is tasked with supervising the monitoring of financial safety, soundness and stability of Other Financial Institutions (OFIs) namely, Development Financial Institutions, Primary Mortgage Banks, Finance Companies, Microfinance Banks and Bureau de Change (OFIs). She reviews/approves Prudential and Non-prudential requests of OFIs.
Mrs Okey-Nwangwu rich experience as a regulator and supervisor of OFIs, enable her to effectively perform some key assignments which include distress resolution of Fortis Microfinance Bank Plc. Her diligence of purpose, integrity and tenacity throughout her period at Fortis MFB as the head of the Central Bank led-Interim Management Committee resulted in the seamless and successful resolution of the MFB as well as maintaining public confidence in the microfinance industry and she was awarded commendation by the management of the Central Bank of Nigeria for the excellent job.
As an experienced and competent bank examiner, Mrs Okey-Nwangwu is a principal member of various departmental committees which includes OFISD Teaching Faculty which is assigned to induct and teach new bank examiners OFISD job process and applicable accounting rules and supervisory regulations. OFISD Capital Review Committee tasked with reviewing the suitability of the source of funds of capital injected by OFI. She has led various on-site examination of OFIs, and she represents CBN at various financial industry fora.
She has a Master of Science in Management from University of Lagos (January 2009) and Higher National Diploma from the Institute of Management and Technology, Enugu (July 1998). She acquired professional qualification as a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), October 2000.
Mrs Okey-Nwangwu is married with children.