Rasheed is currently the Founder of Niche Capital Limited and Informed Analytics Limited. Mr. Rasheed Olaoluwa has 30 years’ experience in the banking and financial services sectors, playing senior and executive level roles in Retail, Corporate and Investment Banking, Treasury Management, Financial Control, and Strategic Management gained from reputable institutions such as KPMG Professional Services, GT Bank, Ecobank, United Bank for Africa (UBA), and Bank Of Industry. He was the pioneer Group CEO of United Capital Plc, a leading financial investment services company in Africa. Prior to this, he was an Executive Director at the United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA), where he led the largest and most profitable Strategic Business Directorate in the Banking Group. Rasheed was also the pioneer CEO of UBA Africa from 2007 to 2011, during which time he extended UBA’s operations into 18 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. He was also recently the CEO of Bank Of Industry Nigeria.

He holds a First Class Honors’ degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), Nigeria and an Executive MBA from International Graduate School of Management (IESE), Spain. He is also an Associate Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN).

He holds a BA in Economics from Elmira College, New York, USA and a Masters degree in National Development and Project Planning from the University of Bradford, United Kingdom. Mr. Njie had an extensive career in the civil service of The Gambia where he held several sensitive positions before retiring as a Permanent Secretary in 2005. He is working presently as a consultant to the UN Development Programme [UNDP].

He is currently the Managing Partner of Oakwood Green Capital Ltd. Until recently, Gabriel was the CEO of First Atlantic Bank, Ghana where he is also a part owner, and prior to that, the Africa CEO for a large Pan-African bank, United Bank for Africa Plc, with the responsibility of strategically positioning the firm to achieve its corporate objectives in 18 African countries, acquiring vast experience in dealing with policy makers, key industry leaders, and regulatory agencies locally, regionally and internationally.

He is an astute and seasoned banker with about 25 years’ experience and a comprehensive understanding of doing business in Africa. He has been well exposed, during the course of his career to Governance, Strategy, Corporate and SME Lending, Project Finance, Treasury and Cash Management, Risk Management, Structured Trade and Financial Technology. Gabriel is a corporate turnaround expert, having engineered significant business transformations in seven UBA operating country subsidiaries as well as most recently, in First Atlantic Bank Ghana. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Civil Engineering and Masters in Business Administration and is an alumni of the INSEAD Business School.

Dr. Taiwo Olayinka Afolabi, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of SIFAX Group, a multinational conglomerate. He began his professional career with a shipping company, Nigerian Express Agencies Limited, where he distinguished himself and rose to become the Head of Operations. With the zeal of entrepreneurship burning in him, he left the company in 1988 to establish what has now turned to a big conglomerate, SIFAX Group, a business interest with diverse investments in Maritime, Aviation, Haulage, Logistics, Oil & Gas and Hospitality, among others.

From a little beginning, the company, which started as a freight forwarding agency in Lagos, Nigeria, currently operates across the world with presence in the United States, United Kingdom, Ghana, South Africa, Holland, Belgium, Morocco, Spain and Djibouti, among others.

Some of the Group’s subsidiaries include Ports and Cargo Handling Services Limited, concessionaire and operator of the Terminal C, Tin Can Island Ports, Apapa Lagos; SIFAX Off Dock Limited, a bonded terminal operator; SIFAX Stevedoring Limited; SIFAX Oil and Gas Limited; SIFAX Haulage & Logistics Limited; SIFAX Logistics & Marine Services Limited; Skypower Aviation Handling Company Limited, an aviation ground handling company and SIFAX Shipping Limited.

Soni is an experienced Executive Management Personnel with demonstrated track record in relationship building, business development, service industry and customer management. He has over 26 years banking experience, spanning four (4) banks.

Soni is skilled in building strong teams and organizations that consistently deliver agreed targets. His banking career has progressed from hands on operations staff to Group Head before taking up further responsibilities in areas of Business Development and Credit where he functioned as Business Manager, Sector Head, Area Manager, Regional Director, Country CEO, UBA Sierra Leone, as well as Regional Bank Head and Deputy Managing Director, UBA Ghana. As the Country CEO for UBA Sierra Leone, Soni turned the loss making subsidiary into profit making within nine (9) months. He also performed creditably well in his role as the Deputy managing Director, UBA Ghana responsible for Corporate, Retail and Commercial Banking Businesses as well as Digital Banking. He grew subsidiary annual profits from GHs90m in 2015 to GHs315m by 2017. He also grew deposits from GHs1.7Bn in 2015 to GHs2.3Bn by December 2018.

Alfred Amoah has over 20 years banking experience in Retail Banking, various aspect of Operations and E-Banking in various Commercial Banks including Savings and Loans.

Alfred started off his banking career with Barclays Bank Ghana ( Now Absa Ghana ) where he started from the bottom as a teller and rose through the ranks to be the Head in various aspect of Operations of various banks in Ghana such as First Atlantic Bank, Access Bank, UBA Ghana Limited and Abii National Savings and Loans.

Prior to joining Bloom Bank Gambia, he joined uniBank as the Head of E-Banking and due to his achievements he was seconded to UniCredit Savings and Loans as the Head of Retail Banking where he led the strategic business growth agenda for the Retail Business through the deployment of e- banking tools to improve profitability and reach for the mostly retail and small business segments of the customer base.

He was then raised to the Executive Head, Business Operations at uniCredit Ghana Limited where he also provided leadership and effectively managed the Business, Operations, service quality and IT/ e- banking departments of the institution.

Alfred holds an MBA in Banking and Finance from the Paris Graduate School of Management (PGSM) and a first degree in Economics from Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria. He has also attended several banking and management courses both locally and internationally.