Bolaji Balogun
"Bolaji has 27 years of experience in financial services and mobile telecommunications. He spent 11 years within FCMB Group in investment banking and securities trading, leaving the business in January 2001. From April 1993 to January 2001, he was Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer at CSL Stockbrokers (part of FCMB Group). Bolaji was Executive Director at FCMB Capital Markets from January 1996, where he led advisory teams in major corporate transactions.
"Bolaji left FCMB Capital Markets in January 2001, to become a co-founder and Director of Econet Wireless Nigeria, now Airtel Nigeria, which was the first major private infrastructure project in Nigeria. He was pioneer Chief Business Development and Strategy Officer and in October 2001, was appointed Chief Marketing Officer. He left mobile telecommunications and returned to investment banking in 2005, when he founded Chapel Hill in 2005.
"Bolaji is Chairman of Lafarge Africa Plc, was formerly Chairman of Nahco FTZ Limited and a Director of Nahco Aviance Plc. He is a Director of Trust Fund Pensions Plc, one of Nigeria’s largest Pension Fund Managers and NASD Plc, the first OTC Market launched in Nigeria. He was appointed to the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, Africa Advisory Board in September 2009 and was Chairman of the investment banking trade group, the Association of Issuing Houses of Nigeria from September 2010 to July 2014."[1]
- Director, Endeavour Nigeria
