Dr. Joseph Nnanna – Chairman
Dr. Nnanna is an economist and a Central Banker. He has
three decades of post qualification professional experience. He attended
William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey and University of Houston, in
Houston Texas, USA from 1975-80, where he read Finance, Public Policy and
Economics. He graduated with B.A, M.A and PhD diplomas. Since graduation, Dr.
Nnanna has attended several economic policy oriented training programs. In 2003
and 2004, he studied at Harvard University and participated in the
macroeconomic policy and leadership/ organizational management training
programs.
Dr. Nnanna was appointed Deputy Governor (Financial System
Stability) Central Bank of Nigeria on February 3, 2015. His work experience
includes: a brief period of teaching at the University of Houston at Clear Lake
City campus (USA) and at the federal government Polytechnic, Akure (Nigeria) in
1980-82. And from 1982-1989, he worked as a staff economist in the
international trade and exchange rate section of the Research Department of the
Central Bank of Nigeria.
Dr. Nnanna also served as full time consultant to the
government of Nigeria as a technical assistant to the National Economic
Management Team and the Presidential Steering Committee on Global economic
crisis. He was also a part-time consultant to the United Nations Conference on
Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
In 2012-2014, Dr. Nnanna , served as the Alternate Executive
Director, representing Nigeria and 21 other sub-sahara African countries on the
Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington D.C.
Mr. Oluseyi Bickersteth – Non Executive Director
Seyi Bickersteth is
the National Senior Partner of KPMG Professional Services, Nigeria; he oversees
KPMG West Africa Region and is a Member of the Global Board. Seyi has provided
advisory services to major companies in varied industries, including oil and
gas, financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing, commercial, public
sector and not for profit organisations.
He has been extensively involved in privatisation activities
and has provided tax and business advice to several local and international
companies on privatisation, business organisation, entity restructuring and
business regulatory issues.
Seyi was a member of the Trade and Investment Committee of
the Nigerian-American Chamber of Commerce; was a director of the Nigerian-South
African Chamber of Commerce and currently a Director of the Nigerian Economic
Summit Group. He was also involved in Vision 2010, which prepared a memorandum
on the vision for Nigeria by year 2010. He chaired a working group on “Nigerian
Tax Reforms 2003 & Beyond” for the Federal Government of Nigeria.
Mr. Ken Igbokwe – Non Executive Director
Ken joined Price Waterhouse in London in 1978 and moved to
PwC Nigeria in 1988. He became the Country Business Executive Leader of PwC
Nigeria and West Africa and was a member of the PwC Africa Executive Committee.
Ken holds a B.Sc. (Eng.) degree in Mechanical Engineering
from Imperial College, London University, and over 36 years’ experience in the
provision of assurance, taxation, business advisory, and consulting services.
He specialises in strategy, enterprise transformation, process reengineering,
taxation advisory and business reconstruction.
He is a Member, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of
England & Wales, and Nigeria; Member, City and Guilds Institute London;
Member, Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria, and Member, Business
Recovery & Insolvency Practitioners Association of Nigeria.
Mrs. Funke Ighodaro Executive Director, Finance
Funke was Chief Financial Officer of Tiger Brands Limited
from 2011 to 2016. She held the position of Chief Financial Officer of Primedia
(Pty) Ltd, from 2001 to 2011. Prior to 2001, she was Managing Director of a
private equity firm, Kagiso Ventures Limited and Executive Director of its
parent company, Kagiso Trust Investment Company.
Funke also worked in the corporate finance division of
Standard Corporate and Merchant Bank. She trained and qualified as a Chartered
Accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers in London, where she spent a total of 10
years in audit and tax. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants
in England and Wales.
Mr. Boye Olusanya – Managing Director/CEO
Boye Olusanya, the new CEO of Etisalat Nigeria is bringing
on board an impeccable wealth of experience from the Nigerian telecoms sector.
At ECONET Wireless, he was Deputy Chief Executive Officer and subsequently the
Acting Chief Executive Officer where he successfully managed the affairs of the
Company after the disengagement of the former operators.
At CELTEL NIGERIA LIMITED, Boye assumed the role of Deputy
Chief Executive Officer and led the business strategy initiative for data
services as well as key strategic operational changes in the business.
Boye has handled high
level responsibilities at Dangote Industries Limited where he served as Chief
Business Transformation Officer responsible for management of all
enterprise-wide projects in the Group. He was also MD at Dancom Technologies
Limited with responsibility for managing all the telecom assets and the IT
Infrastructure. He oversaw the sale of the 3G subsidiary as well as managed the
rollout of the fibre backbone network covering 4400km across the country.
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