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YEWANDE SADIKU
EXECUTIVE SECRETARY, NIGERIAN INVESTMENT PROMOTIONS COMMISSION
Yewande is Executive Secretary/CEO of Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (“NIPC”), Nigeria's
foremost investment promotion agency. Until her appointment, she was the Executive Director Corporate and
Investment Banking of Stanbic IBTC Group and previously served as Chief Executive of its investment
banking business.
She is an awardee of the Eisenhower Fellowship for International Leadership and was one of “35 International
Women Under 35” featured in the October 2007 edition of World Business Magazine. She has an interest in
bringing formal financing to the Nigerian film industry; she raised funding for Half of a Yellow Sun (2014) a full
feature film. Ms Sadiku holds a BSc in Industrial Chemistry (second class upper honours) from University of
Benin, Nigeria and an MBA from University of Warwick, England.

AYO TERIBA,
CEO, ECON ASSOCIATES
Ayo is CEO of Economic Associates (EA) where he provides strategic direction for ongoing research and
consulting on the outlook of the Nigerian economy, focusing on global, national, regional, state, and sector issues.
Ayo is also the Vice-Chairman of the Technical Committee of the National Council on Privatization (TC-NCP),
where he highlights the links between privatization programmes and the macroeconomy. He was a Member of
Board of Economic Advisers in the Office of the Economic Adviser to the President, where he contributed to the
conception of economic policy ideas for the country, was a Member of Nigeria's Industrial Council, where he
shaped efforts to ensure Nigeria's industrial advancement, was a Member of Presidential Technical Advisory
Committee on Implementation of New National Minimum Wage, and was a Member of the defunct National
Economic Intelligence Committee (NEIC), where he conducted periodic reality checks on macroeconomic, fiscal
and monetary policies.

Before becoming CEO of EA in 2004, Ayo worked as Chief Economist at ThisDay Newspaper (2001-2004),
Faculty Member at Lagos Business School (1995-2001), Head of Research at Lagos Chamber of Commerce
(1993-1995), and Company Economist at UAC of Nigeria (1992-1993). Ayo has served as Consultant to many blue-
chip companies, a host of federal ministries, departments and agencies, numerous State Governments, DfID,
USAID, UNIDO, World Bank, and was a Visiting Scholar to the IMF Research Department in Washington DC and he
has received grants from Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation, and chaired the steering committee of
Money, Macroeconomic and Finance Research Group of Money Market Association of Nigeria. He is a Council
Member and Chair of Economic and Statistics Committee of Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and a
Non-Executive Director of Greenwich Trust Group. Ayo earned B.Sc. in Economics from University of Ibadan with
Sir James Robertson Prize and Medal, UAC Prize in Economics, and Economics Departmental Prize as the all-
round best economics graduate in 1988, M.Sc. Economics from Ibadan in 1990, M. Phil. Economics of Developing
Countries as a Cambridge-DfID Scholar at University of Cambridge in 1992, and Ph.D. in Applied Econometrics
and Monetary Economics from University of Durham in 2003. He is an Alumnus of Lagos Business School (AMP 5)
and Henley Business School (BDP) Executive Programmes

TEMITOPE ODUKOYA
PARTNER/WEST AFRICA ADVISORY LEADER, DELOITTE NIGERIA (MODERATOR)
Temitope, is currently the Deloitte West Africa Financial Advisory Leader, with close to 20 years of professional
experience. His experience spans across several industries and he has led Financial Advisory projects involving
M&A, due diligence, restructuring and valuation amongst others. His clients include leading PE firms,
international trade players and indigenous clients.
Temitope holds a BSc in Actuarial Science from the University of Lagos, Nigeria, an MSc in Finance and
Management from Cranfield School of Management, United Kingdom and a Global Executive MBA jointly
awarded by Columbia Business School and London Business School. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered
Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) and a CFA Charter Holder.

WALE ADEOSUN
CEO/FOUNDING PARTNER/CO-CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER KURAMO CAPITAL
MANAGEMENT LLC
Walé is the Founder, CEO and Chief Investment Officer of Kuramo Capital Management, a US SEC registered
investment management firm with offices in New York City, Lagos, Nigeria and Nairobi, Kenya. Prior to founding
Kuramo Capital, he was Treasurer and Chief Investment Officer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) where he
managed $1 billion in endowment and pension assets. Prior to joining Rensselaer in 2004, he was a Managing
Director at the MacArthur Foundation with oversight of $2 billion in US equities and hedge fund investments. He
currently serves as the Chairman of the Nigeria Higher Education Foundation (NHEF) and serves on the Board of
several portfolio companies in sub-Saharan Africa.
He received his BA in Economics and Business Administration at Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa and received
his MBA from John M. Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri with a concentration
in Finance. He was awarded the Chartered Financial Analyst designation in 1995 and he is a member of the CFA
Institute and CFA societies of Lagos and New York. Walé Adeosun was inducted into the New York Chapter of the
National Association of Security Professionals Wall Street Hall of Fame in 2008.

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