Management Team

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”42px”][zy_heading_module title_text=”Our Management Team” title_color=”#004987″][vc_empty_space height=”42px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1600066212788{margin-bottom: -110px !important;background-color: #f9f9f9 !important;}”][vc_column][zy_team_module postcount=”6″ cat=”37″ column_md=”4″ column_lg=”4″ modulestyle=”team-1″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content_no_spaces” disable_element=”yes” el_class=”bg-parallax” css=”.vc_custom_1599736194738{margin-bottom: -100px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”][vc_column css_animation=”fadeInUp” css=”.vc_custom_1550920342970{padding-top: 100px !important;padding-right: 85px !important;padding-left: 85px !important;border-radius: 5px !important;}” el_class=”p-xs-3 p-sm-3 m-xs-0″][zy_heading_module subtitle_text=”Let’s Work Together” title_text=”Careers” animation=”fadeInDown” subtitle_color=”#ffffff” title_color=”#ffffff”][vc_empty_space height=”60px”][vc_column_text]We strongly believe that our people are critical to our success in building a sustainable and dominant business in the countries we operate in across Nigeria. We go to great ends to source, attract, recruit, develop and retain the best talents where-ever they may be in the world. To this end, we are always striving.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_btn title=”Join Our Team” style=”custom” custom_background=”#04b3e2″ custom_text=”#ffffff” align=”center” link=”url:%23|||”][vc_empty_space height=”70px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Mrs. Aidevo Odu-Thomas

Company Secretary & General Counsel
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Olukemi Ifekoya

Strategic Human Resource Lead
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Suleiman Baba

Head, Group Regulatory Risk & Government Relations
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Wasiu Shafe

Chief Financial Officer
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Mrs. Aidevo Odu-Thomas

Company Secretary & General Counsel | FSDH Group

Background

Aidevo Odu-Thomas obtained a Bachelor of Laws Degree from the University of Ife, Ile-Ife and a Masters in Computer and Communications Law from Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. She is a Solicitor and an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. She started her legal career in the Law firm of Ajayi Olofinlade & Co. She thereafter worked as an in-house counsel in the then Nigerian Telecommunications Limited, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc and later as the company secretary of UBA Plc. She also worked as company secretary for Etisalat Nigeria with responsibility for overseeing the legal department. She was Company Secretary/Legal Adviser for FSDH Merchant Bank Limited until July 2019 when she was appointed General Counsel/Company Secretary for FSDH Holding Company Limited.

Olukemi Ifekoya

 Strategic Human Resource Lead

Background

Olukemi is a Human Resources Professional with diverse financial services experience and accomplishments in strategic human resource business partnering, HR Operations, learning, outsourcing and talent management.

 

Prior to joining FSDH Holding Company, she worked with the Stanbic IBTC Group for 14 years starting out as a HR generalist in Stanbic IBTC Pension Managers Limited and most recently as the Senior Business Partner for the Corporate and Investment Banking Business segment at Stanbic IBTC Bank, where she partnered with business leaders to articulate and achieve business objectives through related people initiatives that translate from the corporate strategy.

 

She holds a Master’s degree in Managerial Psychology from the University of Lagos. She is an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management (CIPM), a Senior Certified Professional at the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM, USA) as well a Senior Professional in Human Resource Management at the HR Certification Institution (HRCI, USA).

Suleiman Baba

Head, Group Regulatory Risk & Government Relations
FSDH Group

Background

Suleiman Muhammed Baba heads the Group Regulatory Risk & Government Relations team at FSDH Holding Company. Prior to this, he was a pioneer staff of FSDH Merchant Bank, where he rose to become Head of the Abuja Branch, and before this, he worked at New Africa Merchant Bank Limited, Lagos. Suleiman has over 25 years’ experience in Treasury, Credit, Marketing, Public Sector and Compliance, and is currently responsible for the implementation of the Group’s strategic business objectives in the northern target market. He is a graduate of Management Science from the University of Sokoto, obtained an MBA from the University of Lagos, and has participated in several senior management programmes at local and international level.

Wasiu Shafe

Chief Financial Officer
FSDH Group

Background

Wasiu Shafe has over 18 years post qualification work experience across the fields of consulting, assurance and the financial service industry. He started his post qualification career with the accounting firm of Ayo Falaiye & Co (Chartered Accountants) before joining the Internal Control and Audit Group of Zenith Bank Plc. Wasiu joined First Securities Discount House Limited as Financial Controller in 2008, a position he held after the transition of the Discount House to a Merchant Bank in 2013. He assumed the role as the bank’s Chief Financial Officer in 2015 with responsibility for the financial and strategic plan of the bank with oversight responsibilities over the financial reporting functions of the bank’s subsidiaries which comprised of an asset management, a stockbroking firm and a pension fund administrator company. In July 2019, he was appointed as the Chief Financial Officer of FSDH Holdings Company following the restructuring exercise of the FSDH Group into a financial holding company. He is a graduate of accounting and an associate member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria and the Nigerian Institute of Management (Chartered). He is an alumnus of the Senior Management Programme of the Lagos Business School and a certified Balanced Scorecard Professional.