BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Babatunde Alani Omidiran is the executive chairman of Babs Allan Nigeria Limited, a leading dredging and marine services company in Lagos. 

He previously served as an executive vice-chairman at Omidiran Enterprises Limited where he reformed and restructured the family business.

Over the years, he has been involved in major dredging projects in Ogun and Lagos States, including land reclamation, sand stock piling, waterways dredging, channelization and sand blasting. Tunde holds a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the University of Ibadan and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Bryant College, Rhode Island USA.

Boye is an accomplished business leader with broad domestic and international experience spanning over 20 years. He is the founder and current Group Managing Director of Primera Africa Finance Group (PAFG), where he provides overall fiscal, strategic and operations leadership to all the businesses within the Group.

Prior to setting up PAFG, Boye worked at Afrinvest West Africa Limited where he held several roles including Chief Strategy Officer of the firm and Co-head of its Investment Banking group. Before Afrinvest, he worked in the Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) group at UBS Investment Bank in New York, USA where he executed transactions in various sectors including healthcare, industrial and consumer products. He also worked in the Debt and Equity Capital Markets desk at Merrill Lynch in New York, USA.

Boye holds a B.B.A. Finance degree from Howard University, Washington, D.C. USA. He is also an Alumni of the Lagos Business School, Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos, Nigeria, and has had several executive management programs during the course of his career.

With over fifteen years of Capital Markets experience, Lilian Olubi, who is a founding partner of Primera Africa Finance Group serves as the Chief Executive Officer of its Brokerage business, Primera Africa Securities Limited.

Prior to this, she worked at Afrinvest Limited and was instrumental in refocusing the firm’s retail business. She oversaw its daily Private Client management activities and the coordination of various firm-wide marketing initiatives across its branches.

She began her Securities Trading career at CSL Stockbrokers where she worked in various capacities spanning Investment Management, Research and Operations before joining the Sales & Marketing team.

Lilian is a chartered stockbroker and authorized dealing clerk of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, an associate of the Certified Pensions Institute of Nigeria and an alumna of the Lagos Business School. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Benin.

Oboden Valentine Ibru is currently the Deputy Managing Director of Proton Africa Holding Limited, a group holding company for a power generation and development company. Oboden started his career at Oceanic Bank International in 1990 and went on to become an Executive Director before his departure in 2007. Over the years, he has acquired high-level operational expertise within the Banking Sector. Oboden's career spans over 27 years experience in such areas as Corporate Finance, Dredging, and Power Generation

He currently sits on the Board of Metro Health HMO Limited and the other IbruFamily owned companies. He has also sat on the boards of Oando Plc, Business Day Media, Aerocontractors Company of Nigeria Limited, to name a few. He holds an MBA from the International Graduate School of Management (IESE) Navarra, Spain, a B.Sc. Finance, and B.Sc. Decision Sciences from the University of San Francisco, California, USA

Mr. Riad Joseph Baloukji currently serves as the Group Managing Director of Boulos Group of Companies. He started his career with the Boulos Group of Companies which consists of 3 major enterprises: Boulos Enterprises Limited (BEL) which is a leading distribution and trading company for commercial motorcycles, power bikes, tricycles and out board motors in Nigeria Incorporated in 1964, BEL PAPYRUS limited (BPL) which handles the paper operations and Bel Impex Limited (BIL), the converting arm of the Paper mill operations, which was incorporated by the Boulos Group in 2001.

Riad is a commercially experienced, business focused and trained electrical engineer. He is skilled at leading large companies in multi-locations with multi-cultural teams to design, build, restructure or manage complex and start-up operations in order to improve profitability and sustainability.

With over 20 years of track record as leader and builder of companies across sectors, Riad possesses Board level executive experience, managing budgets, investments and implementing large enterprise change projects as well as mergers and acquisitions.

Riad has great wealth of international experience gained across the Middle-East and Africa with strong exposure in West Africa.

Mr. Jide Ogundare currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of MBO Capital. He was until October 2011 an Executive Director and Head, Retail Banking Division of Guaranty Trust Bank Plc (GTBank), a leading African Bank with Nigerian roots. The bank operates subsidiaries in other countries in Africa and Europe including the UK.

Jide was a foundation staff of GTBank as he joined the Bank in 1990 after working for First Interstate Merchant Bank Limited, also a Nigerian bank for three (3) years. He became an Executive Director of GTBank in 2002.

He also served on the Board of GTBank Sierra Leone for a period of 8 years, initially as a Non- Executive Director and later as Chairman of the Board. Jide worked for GTBank for 21 (twenty–one) years in various departments including the Investment Banking Group before he left in October 2011, ending a highly successful career in Banking.

He holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Cardiff Business School and a first degree in Law from School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and he was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1987.