Abayomi Adeyemi

Mr. Yomi Adeyemi is a graduate of Mathematics / Statistics with over eighteen years of diverse finance industry experience in Corporate & Investment Banking, Stockbrokerage and Asset Management. He is a Fellow of both the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers and Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria. He is also a CFA Charter holder and an alumnus of the Lagos Business School Executive Programme. He has over the years attended various training programmes in finance, leadership and governance in Ivy League institutions including the Harvard Business School.

He started his career with Merchant Bank of Commerce (MBCOM) in 1998. He left in 2000 to join the Corporate Banking Division of Lead Merchant Bank. Whilst at Lead Bank, he also worked in the Investment Banking Group that was responsible for various landmark capital market transactions. He was later seconded to the brokerage arm of the Bank (Lead Investments & Securities Limited) to revamp its dwindling fortune.

He joined Core Trust & Investment Limited as Group Head, Financial Advisory Group in 2004, a position he held till 2008, when he led a new group of investors to acquire controlling interest in Fortress Capital Limited (formerly Heritage Investment and Securities Limited) as the Managing Director.