Yomi Adeyemi

Yomi Adeyemi is a graduate of Mathematics / Statistics with over twenty years of diverse finance and entrepreneurial experience in Corporate & Investment Banking, Stockbrokerage & Asset Management, Real Estate Development and Strategic Business Turnaround. He is a Fellow of both the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria and the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers. He is also a CFA Charterholder and an alumnus of the Lagos Business School Executive Programme. Yomi has PGD certificate in Law (Corporate Law) from the prestigious University of London. He has attended various training programmes in finance, leadership and corporate governance internationally including the Harvard Business School.

He started his banking 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 participated in various landmark capital market transactions during the privatisation programme of the Federal Government of Nigeria. He was later seconded to the brokerage arm of the Bank (Lead Investments & Securities Limited) to revamp its dwindling fortune.

Yomi left the Lead Bank Group in 2004 to work with Core Trust & Investment Limited as Head, Financial Advisory Group, a position he held till 2008, when he led other investors to acquire majority stake in Fortress Capital Limited, a business he has been managing as the CEO since 2008. He was elected as Member to the Council of the Nigerian Stock Exchange to represent the stockbroking community in 2018 and played an active role in the successful demutualisation of the Exchange 2021. He currently serves as Non-Executive Director of Nigerian Exchange Limited.

He has other business interests spanning Real Estate, Logistics, Media & Advertising. He currently sits on the board of Livestock Feeds Plc, BDT Properties and Development Company Limited, Exito Logistics Limited and Connect Marketing Services Limited in non-executive capacities.

Yomi is a finance expert with decent analytical and problem-solving abilities and a consummate business leader. He actively plays soccer, squash and chess. He volunteers for Life Changers Foundation, a non-profit organisation dedicated to assisting the less privileged using Education, Vocation & Enterprise.