Olufemi Awoyemi
Founder and Chairman of Proshare

Olufemi Awoyemi is the Founder and Chairman of Proshare, Nigeria’s foremost financial information hub and owners of WebTV, Debtors Africa and Proshare. An astute leader, forward thinking and disruptive strategist, hee is a Fellow of several reputable professional bodies including The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), the Institute of Directors, (IoD) the Chartered Institute of Bankers and the Institute of Management Consultants. He is also an Associate member of the Nigerian Institute of Management. Olufemi Awoyemi holds Honorary fellowships of the Association of Investment Advisers and Portfolio Managers, Institute of Credit Administration, Business Process Management Institute, and the Institute of Information Management.

Having had a distinguished career spanning over three decades, Olufemi Awoyemi is regarded as an expert in finance and business strategy and a leading authority in economic and public policy. Over the period, he has had course to work with various leading local and international brands such as PricewaterhouseCoopers, UAC of Nigeria, Eterna Oil & Gas Plc, Phillips Consulting, Fountain Trust Bank and British American Tobacco, recording remarkable outcomes and earning the respect of many.

He has served on several other committees including the Securities & Exchange Commission’s Capital Market Committee (CMC) on FinTech Roadmap for Nigeria, the Institute of Directors’ Financial Services & Capital Markets Committee as Chairman, and as Vice-Chairman of the Ethics & Governance committee to mention a few. 

He had previously been a 3-term member of the Strategy, Research & Advocacy committee of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN), member of the 2015 Technical Sub-Committee of the Nigeria Economic Summit Group (NESG), member of various committees of the Nigerian-British Chamber of Commerce and in 2012, Technical Advisor to the National Assembly House Committee on Capital Markets.

Olufemi is currently a Governing Council Member and Vice-President of the Association of Investment Advisers & Portfolio Managers, Governing Council member of the Fintech Association of Nigeria and representative member for Nigeria on the African Fintech Network (AFN) and many more.

He has published hundreds of reviews, opinions, articles, research work, and publications in the last three decades covering workplace issues, market intelligence, service/practice/innovation issues in the capital market, corporate governance in Nigeria, public policy, and impact assessments, as well as white collar crimes in corporate Nigeria and the markets.

His interests include future trends, financial markets education, empowerment, and tech solutions; strategy articulation & execution, market intelligence, knowledge management, community development, documentaries and sports to which he remains an active enthusiast in five sports.