Wole is the founder and Group Managing Director of the Custodian Investment Group with interests in Life Insurance, General Insurance, Pensions, and Trusteeship business. He is an industry leader with over thirty (30) years of experience and has at various times been a member of the Presidential Committee on Pension Reforms, Chairman of the Nigerian Insurers Association, Council Member of the West African Insurance Companies Association (Ghana), and External Lecturer – West African Insurance Institute, Banjul, The Gambia. He sits on several Boards and is a Council member of the African Insurance Organization (Cameroun), Nigerian Insurers Association, and the Nigerian-British Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He has been nominated a top 25 CEO on the Nigeria Stock Exchange by the influential BusinessDay newspaper as well as a nominee for “African CEO of the Year” by African Reinsurance Corporation.
A graduate of Actuarial Science from the University of Lagos and a Chartered Insurer by Profession, he holds the Doctor of Finance (Honoris Causa) and is a Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria, The Risk Managers Society of Nigeria, and the Association of Investment Advisers and Portfolio Managers. He is a past President of Lagos Business School Alumni Association (LBSAA), as well as an alumnus of the Harvard Business School.
He spends his spare time doing social work through the WATO Foundation which runs the WATO Group of Schools for indigent children.
Wole is a firm believer in the building and transformation of the economy through the development of Risk management and Insurance.