Mr Rotimi Akinde

Non Executive Director

Mr. Akinde is a finance professional with over 20 years Investment and Corporate Banking experience and an extensive track record covering Capital Raising (Debt, Equities and Hybrids) as well as Corporate Finance (Mergers & Acquisitions, Privatization Advisory and Project/Infrastructure Finance).

Prior to joining the Bank of Industry, he was an Associate Partner, Infrastructure & Corporate Finance at the Infrastructure Delivery International (IDI) where he led and promoted green financing initiatives and structured debt solutions for sub-nationals. He was previously the Corporate Finance Advisor at the Nigeria Infrastructure Advisory Facility (‘NIAF’), providing financing initiatives, modelling and funding structures for the infrastructure team.

He served within Corporate Banking as the Group Head & Assistant General Manager, Multinationals at UBA Plc, prior to which he was Vice President, Corporate Finance & Advisory at UBA Global Markets (‘now United Capital’). He was a Privatization Adviser & Head, Oil & Gas Team at the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), where he closed on the divestiture and sale of the Federal Government’s equity interest in 11 Oil Services Companies and achieved the sale of all the Federal Government’s LPG assets. He was also an Assistant Manager in Leadbank Plc, within the Investment and Corporate Banking Groups. Before this role, he had a stint as an Analyst with Merrill Lynch Investment Managers, London and an Analyst with Barclays Funds, London.

Mr. Akinde holds a Bachelors’ Degree in Economics from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife; earned a Masters Degree in International Securities, Investment & Banking from the University of Reading, UK and an Executive MBA from INSEAD.