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Leadership and governance.

Management runs day-to-day investment and operations. The board sets policy and holds management to it.

DAY-TO-DAY LEADERSHIP

Executive management.

Abimbola Ogundokun

Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer

Abimbola Ogundokun brings over 30 years of leadership across banking, asset management and insurance to Alumni Assets. He has served as Managing Director of Growth & Development Asset Management Limited — a SEC-regulated asset manager, CBN-licensed finance house and NSE-registered stockbroker — and as Managing Director/CEO of National Bank of Nigeria Plc, following an earlier tenure as the bank’s Chief Finance Officer and Special Assistant to the Managing Director. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (FCA) and an Associate of both the Chartered Institute of Taxation (ACIT) and the Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria (ACIIN).

Abayomi Alabi

Executive Director, Marketing and Chief Marketing Officer

Abayomi Alabi is a corporate and commercial lawyer with over 25 years of experience in banking, energy and corporate governance. He is currently a Partner at Ilimi Chambers, Lagos, focused on Corporate & Commercial Law, Banking & Finance and the Energy sector, and has previously served as Chief Legal Adviser and Company Secretary of Transnational Corporation of Nigeria Plc, Group Legal Adviser/Company Secretary of Sahara Bulk Ltd, and Head of Legal/Assistant Company Secretary at National Bank of Nigeria Plc. He holds an LLB (Hons) from the University of Leicester and an LLM from the University of Nottingham, and is recommended by The Legal 500 and IFLR for his corporate work.

Akintunde Sadiku

Executive Director, Information Technology

Akintunde Sadiku brings over 20 years of cross-functional leadership across banking, technology and logistics. He spent five years at Access Bank Plc as Assistant Vice President in the Institutional Banking Group, where he also served as interim Group CIO, leading a 32-person team to build IT infrastructure across eight African subsidiaries and the UK. He holds an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Chicago and an MBA in Finance and IT from Cardiff University, and is currently Founder/Director of Aeonian Technology, a SaaS company serving the passenger transportation sector.

Oladipo Selesi

Executive Director, Risk and Compliance and Chief Risk and Compliance Officer

Oladipo Selesi brings over 30 years of experience spanning financial management, risk and regulatory compliance to Alumni Assets. He served as Chief Risk Officer of Caperemit UK Limited, building the firm’s anti-money laundering and financial crime programme, and as Director (Finance) of Remitise UK Limited, overseeing treasury, FX hedging and AML compliance for a high-net-worth client base; he is currently Managing Director of Brikila UK Limited. He holds a Master of Public Health from the University of Essex and a BSc in Industrial and Applied Biology from London South Bank University.

POLICY AND OVERSIGHT

Board of directors.

Femi Olubanwo

Chairman

Femi Olubanwo is a co-founder and Partner of Banwo & Ighodalo, one of Nigeria’s leading commercial law firms, with more than four decades of legal practice since being called to the Nigerian Bar in 1982. His practice spans banking and corporate finance, project finance, securities, M&A and private equity — recent mandates include advising on a $1.7 billion reserve-based lending facility for Seplat Petroleum Development Company Plc — and he is recognised as a Highly Regarded lawyer by IFLR1000. He also serves on the boards of BlackBerry Technologies Nigeria Limited and Calyx Securities Limited, chaired a Federal Ministry of Finance committee on capital markets governance, and holds an LLB (Hons) from the University of Lagos.

Abayomi Alabi

Executive Vice Chairman

Also serves in executive management.

Abayomi Alabi is a corporate lawyer and governance specialist with over 25 years of experience across banking, energy and professional services. His roles have included Partner at Ilimi Chambers, Legal Adviser at Investment One Financial Services, Partner at AinaBlankson LP, and Company Secretary/Legal Adviser at Transnational Corporation of Nigeria Plc and Sahara Bulk Ltd. He also served as an ECOWAS International Observer for Ghana’s 2012 elections, and is recommended by The Legal 500 and IFLR for his corporate legal work.

Akintunde Sadiku

Director

Also serves in executive management.

Akintunde Sadiku is a cross-functional operations leader and entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience spanning corporate banking, technology and logistics. At Access Bank Plc he directed a $217 million institutional banking portfolio and served as interim Group CIO across eight African subsidiaries and the UK; he has since founded and scaled ventures including Aeonian Technology and Cargo-Werks Canada. He holds an MBA in Finance and IT from Cardiff University and an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Chicago.

Oladipo Selesi

Director

Also serves in executive management.

Oladipo Selesi is a finance and risk management executive with over 30 years of experience across banking, real estate and regulatory compliance. His executive roles include Chief Risk Officer of Caperemit UK Limited, Director (Finance) of Remitise UK Limited, and Executive Director of Cape Valley Global Resources Ltd. and Deluxe Solar Power & Communications Ltd. in Lagos; he currently serves on the boards of Primedia Out of Home, ICE Eighties Ltd., Remitise UK Limited and Brikila Limited. He holds a Master of Public Health from the University of Essex.

Abimbola Ogundokun

Director

Also serves in executive management.

Abimbola Ogundokun is a financial services executive with over 30 years of experience spanning banking, asset management, insurance and consulting. His executive roles include Managing Director of Growth & Development Asset Management Limited, Managing Director/CEO of National Bank of Nigeria Plc, Managing Director of Quidpro Finance Company Limited (CBN-licensed), and General Manager of Standard Alliance Insurance Group. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (FCA), and holds an MA in Educational Administration from the University of Lagos and a BA from Obafemi Awolowo University.

OUR GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK

How decisions are controlled.

Segregation of duties.

Investment decisions, risk oversight and operational execution sit with different officers.

Board oversight.

The board sets investment policy, approves fund structures and reviews performance and risk reporting.

Group-level approvals.

Within each member group, contributions and withdrawals move through a create, confirm and approve chain held by three different officers of that group.

Reporting.

Member groups receive periodic statements and performance reporting on their pooled fund.

TRANSPARENCY

Related interests.

Akintunde Sadiku, Executive Director, Information Technology and a member of our board, is the founder of Aeonian Technology, the company that provides the member platform used by Alumni Assets. We disclose this relationship openly.

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