WHO’S WHO IN CORPORATE NIGERIA: FEMI ADEYEMO – THE ENGINEER-TURNED-FINANCE-GURU
WHO’S WHO IN CORPORATE NIGERIA
FEMI ADEYEMO
AGE: Mid-forties
STATE OF ORIGIN: Oyo
CURRENT POSITION: Executive Director/Group Chief Financial Officer, Oando Group
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT: PwC, First Securities Discount House, McKinsey & Co
EXPERTISE: Finance, Corporate Finance, Mergers & Acquisition, Capital Restructuring, Risk Management
NIGERIAN EDUCATION: Bsc Mechanical Engineering (University of Ibadan), 1986; Msc Metallurgical & Materials Engineering, (University of Lagos), 1988
FOREIGN EDUCATION: Masters in Finance (London Business School), 1998
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIP: Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN)
JARUSHUB ONE-LINE SUMMARY: A trained engineer-turned-finance-guru and one of the savviest CFOs around
JARUSHUB REMARKS
The brain behind Oando Group’s Finance since 2005
Do Engineers make great Finance persons? FA is yet proving this.
He started his career from PwC like many other accounting and finance professionals around
Is the practice by professional services firms like PwC, KPMG, Deloitte, E&Y etc where they recruit fresh graduates irrespective of course of study, responsible for many non-accounting/finance graduates becoming finance professionals?
FA’s profile yet again buttresses my point on this platform that the best places to start your career if you want to become a thorough-bred finance professional is any of the Big 4 professional services firms.
Another McKinsey alumnus. McKinsey is easily one of the best places to work if you want to task your brain.
