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Chief Samuel Bolarinde
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DIRECTORS
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Chief Samuel Bolarinde
Chief Samuel Bolarinde is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Wema Bank Plc.
Bolarinde holds a Bachelors Degree in Industrial Chemistry from John Dalton College, Manchester, England and a Masters Degree in Materials Engineering from University of Surrey England, from where he equally has Certificates in Corrosion Engineering and Adhesive Technology and a Diploma in Physical Metallurgy.
He joined Vitafoam Nig. Plc (then a Unilever company) as a Trainee Manager in 1967 and rose through the ranks to become, at various times, the Production Manager, Technical Manager, and Technical Director and finally, the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer until his retirement in 2002.
In appreciation and recognition of his invaluable contributions to the growth of the company, he was appointed the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company, a position he holds till date.
A good Board room player, Bolarinde who is also the Chairman of Vitafoam Nigeria Plc sits on the the Board of Orion Shipping Company Ltd as Chairman. He is Chairman, Calyx Stock Brokers Ltd and is also on the Board of UAC of Nigeria Plc, Consolidated Breweries Plc, Toyota Nigeria Ltd and Sunlink Petroleum Ltd as well as Alpine Investment Services.
A pioneer Council member of Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), Bolarinde is a past President of Business Club, Ikeja, He is currently a Member of Council, Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) and Member of Council, Nigeria Britain Association among others.
A detribalized Nigerian, Bolarinde, a Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR), holds chieftaincy titles from Okemesi Ekiti, Abeokuta and Aramoko Ekiti as well as Ummahia, Abia State where he holds the chieftaincy title of Akaraka 1.
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Mr. Segun Oloketuyi.
Segun is a consummate banker with several years of banking and managerial experience comes in as the new Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Wema Bank Plc.
Until his new appointment, he was an Executive Director at Skye Bank Plc. with responsibility for Business Development across Lagos and South West Directorates of the Bank.
A Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountant of Nigeria (ICAN) and a 1983 Second Class Upper Division graduate of Chemistry from the University of Lagos, Oloketuyi started out in 1985 as an Auditor with the firm of then Akintola Williams and Co (Chartered Accountants)
He was to move over to the defunct Chartered Bank in 1990 garnering rich experience in corporate and commercial banking, amongst others. He rose to become an Assistant General Manager with direct supervision of the business of the large corporate multinational companies bankwide.
In January 2000, Oloketuyi joined then Prudent Bank Plc as Deputy General Manager in charge of Corporate and Commercial markets. With ever increasing scope of activities and involvement in business development in the bank, he moved up as General Manager, Business Development and Chief Credit Officer in January 2001.
In recognition of his invaluable contributions, Oloketuyi, in April 2004 became an Executive Director at Prudent Bank Plc, a position he held until the bank merged with other banks in the consolidation exercise of December 2005.
In October 2005, Oloketuyi was appointed the acting Managing Director of Bond Bank during which he successfully steered the bank through a successful merger process with Skye Bank Plc.
Following a successful and hitch-free merger process in Skye Bank, Oloketuyi was in January 2006 appointed Executive Director (Finance and Enterprise Risk Management).
Doubling as the Bank’s Chief Finance Officer, he supervised Financial Control and Accounts, Performance Measurement, Corporate and Strategic Planning and Process Management amongst others.
He was also the post-merger Integration Co-ordinator that worked with different integration teams and external Consultants following the merger of the different legacy banks that form Skye Bank Plc.
Oloketuyi has attended various professional and leadership training programmes in the course of his banking career. He is an MBA Alumnus of the Lagos Business School and the Advanced Management Programme of INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France.
A 2007 recipient of the distinguished Alumni Merit Award of the University of Lagos, Oloketuyi holds the membership of the Institute of Directors (IOD) and the Ikoyi Club 1938.
An avid reader who believes in the continuous development of the mind, Oloketuyi enjoys travelling and is married with children.
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Alh. Nurudeen Fagbenro
Nurudeen is a thoroughbred and a well rounded professional Banker. Born in 1960, Alhaji Fagbenro graduated from the University of Lagos in 1985 with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting (Second Class Upper Division). He joined Wema Bank as an Accounting Supervisor in 1986 and rose to become the Head of Foreign Trade in 1991.
Fagbenro has held various strategic positions in the Bank amongst which are Head of International Banking Division from 1996 to 2001, Chief Inspector (2001-2003) while as an Assistant General Manager (2002-2003) he was saddled with the responsibility of identifying/training of key management staff to take charge of future management of International Operations. He was promoted Deputy General Manager in 2003 and drafted to manage the Commercial & Telecommunications and Institutional Banking groups.
He rose to become, in 2005, a General Manager of the Bank in charge of Institutional Banking, a position he held until his appointment as an Executive Director in 2006. He managed Institutional Banking Group till June 2007, a market facing directorate that handles customers’ transactions request in excess of business turnover of N 500m.
Fagbenro co-coordinated the critical institutional integration of National Bank of Nigeria Ltd and Wema Bank Plc.
Fagbenro has been exposed to various capacity building courses and programmes in Nigeria and abroad. He is an alumnus of the Lagos Business School and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN).
Fagbenro, who is happily married with children is an avid reader. He enjoys playing chess, table-tennis, and badminton. He is a respected member of the prestigious Ikoyi Club 1938.
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Ademola Adebise
Ademola is a seasoned and professional banker of repute with over 20 years experience ( 17 years in Banking and over 3 years in Consulting) spanning Information Technology, Financial Control & Strategic Planning, Treasury, Corporate Banking, Risk Management and Performance Management.
Before joining Wema Bank, he was the Head of the Finance & Performance Management Practice of Accenture, Nigeria and the Programme Manager on a transformation project for one of the old generation banks in Nigeria. He also led the following projects for various Banks; Business Process Re-engineering, Selection & Implementation of Core banking Application, Consumer Lending Transformation etc
Prior to joining Accenture in November 2005, he was the General Manager overseeing Corporate Banking and Treasury at National Bank of Nigeria Limited. He also worked in various functions at Chartered Bank rising to the position of Assistant General Manager in 2000.
He was born in 1966 and attended the Lagos Baptist Academy, University of Lagos where he obtained a Bachelors degree (Second Class Upper Division) in Computer Science in 1987. He also has an MBA from the prestigious Pan African University-Lagos Business School. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria and an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Taxation and Computer Professionals (Registration Council of Nigeria)
A thoroughbred, resourceful and self motivated man, Adebise has also attended several training courses, seminars and workshops, both within and outside Nigeria including Advance Selling Course (Munich, Germany 2008), Several Technical & Leadership Courses at Accenture training centers in Chicago, USA and Johannesburg, South Africa (2005-2008), Competing in a Global Environment (IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Barcelona, Spain 2004), Citibank Credit Risk Management Course, New York, USA 2003.
He is married with children. He is a member of Ikoyi Club 1938 and enjoys reading and listening to music.
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