An African finance specialist, amateur economist, an author of short stories, poet, playwright and a banker, he is currently the MD/CEO of Lyceum Alliance Limited (a pre-eminent management consulting firm) and a Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO) Nominee Director on the board of Business Partners International East Africa LLC (BPI EA), a risk finance company that supports SME growth. He has over 20 years’ experience in banking and finance within,he has held various strategic positions such as; Senior Investment Officer at the FMO in The Hague; MD/CEO of Access Bank Zambia, Deputy MD of Access Bank Rwanda. He holds a B.A from the University of Lagos, an MBA in Finance from the University of Leicester, a Chartered Banker MBA from Bangor University, and a DBA in Banking and Finance from Binary University College Malaysia; a Board member of Jalada Africa Trust, a Pan-African Collective to promote Writers and Creatives of African origin.