About Us

Oluyemi Abaolu-Johnson is a multi-discipline accountant, project manager, risk manager and consultant. He trained with PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte and had hands on experience with Sarbanes Oxley engagements, business risk assessment, process improvement, compliance audits, financial audits, process audits, tax, finance, financial reporting, financial and business modelling, etc. He has assisted and still assists very many multinational companies and public sector entities with their processes. While at PricewaterhouseCoopers, he was a key member of the team that re-designed the Nigerian Export Expansion Grant Scheme amongst other projects. He worked with APMoller Maersk Nigeria as a Cluster/Group Head of Internal Control, set up the Quality Assurance Unit for Access Bank Plc before proceeding to consulting practice.

He has managed landmark projects including leading a 24-man team on an organisation reengineering and performance management for the presidency and leading a 30-man team business process reengineering team for one of Nigeria’s 24 commercial banks among many other consulting efforts. He was a key member of the national committee for the implementation of the national productivity policy. He has also helped in designing and implementing ERMF for some financial services organisations. He is positioned to contribute immensely to any organisation in business (process, financial and strategic) managements, oil and gas accounting, financial services, process development and improvement, policy formulation and development, risk management, business relationships, business development, business strategy, regulations management, staff development, etc. capacities.

He has broad exposures to Standards – GAAPs (US FAS, IAS, IFRS and Nigeria’s SAS), and other tools like ISA, IIA’s Performance and Attribute Standards, COSO Control Framework, etc. He possesses sound knowledge of business processes, budgetary skills, financial management skills, etc.; and deep working knowledge of COSO’s enterprise risk management framework (ERMF), Basel II, and its other risk management principles. He converts IFRS and trains IFRS and IPSAS, other Finance and Accounting Topics, Tax, Risk Management, Process Improvement, Corporate Governance and other leading topics at public workshops, for leading accounting institutes and for staff of multinational companies and public sector entities.

Tope Borishade is a finance and accounting professional with extensive business experience, including serving as the Deputy Managing Director at Enugu Electricity Distribution Plc. Prior to that, he worked at the Chrome Group, where he led the corporate finance team on energy industry transactions, managed the petroleum and petroleum products trading subsidiary and managed the petroleum and petroleum products inspection subsidiary, at various times. Before joining Chrome Group, Tope worked was an Associate at Zenith Capital Limited in Lagos and as a Senior at the Chicago office of Deloitte.

Tope holds a B.Sc. in Accounting from Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria and an MBA from DePaul University in the United States of America. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria and Member of Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers, Institute of Directors, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment, U.K. He has participated in courses at London Business School and Harvard Business School. He enjoys networking and business development.

Aderonke Ogunbiyi is an accomplished Legal Advisor and Administrator with over 22 years cross functional experience in corporate and commercial law, consulting, regulatory compliance, corporate governance, strategy, legal & contractual risk management, government relations, immigration support company secretarial services and corporate administration.

She started her professional career in the multi-disciplinary firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) in 1998. Aderonke had several roles over the course of 10 years in PWC as general counsel to the firm and consultant to various external clients. Her client base consisted primarily of multi-national corporations and leading indigenous companies. She later joined the Chapel Hill Denham Group (an investment banking and investment management institution) in 2008, as an Assistant Vice President and Chief Legal and Regulatory Compliance Officer.

Aderonke’s foray into entrepreneurship began in 2011, when she founded a food commodity trading and distributorship business. She has since ventured into real estate development and management. She has also been part of the leadership of a fast-growing indigenous consulting firm to serve private and public sector clients on a couple of corporate governance, board evaluation, business and organisation process re-engineering, and regulatory compliance engagements.

In the course of her career, she has enjoyed and continues to draw from extensive, multi-disciplinary “on the job” and professional training which makes her bring unique and valuable perspectives to any organization she gets to advise or support.  

She is presently the Chief Executive Officer of Harvestcrop Limited and Adronnix Limited (commodities distribution), a Director in Akron Properties Ltd (real estate investment & management), non-executive Director in BVS Professional Services and an independent non-executive Director of Chapel Hill Denham Securities Ltd (a securities trading firm). 

She is a Member of the Board of Trustees of Gbenro Ogunbiyi Foundation and a patron of a couple charities and not for profit organisations.

When she is not working, Aderonke enjoys swimming, seeing the world and amateur biking.

Foyinsola Akinjayeju has close to twenty years of combined industry and consulting experience developing and implementing solutions to business problems for organizations across diverse industries in both private and public sectors, with focus on Oil, Gas and Power, as consultant, coach and functional lead.

Her areas of specialization include Strategic and Business Planning; Operational Excellence; Finance Function Effectiveness, and Culture & Change Implementation and she has a passion to see businesses grow and succeed, consistently.

As competency lead for Strategy Consulting at Price Waterhouse Coopers, she served as the partner’s deputy and head of operations of PwC Nigeria’s Strategy consulting business, with responsibilities across the strategy practice and client’s projects. She has been responsible for formulating strategies for business growth, developing budget and monitoring budget performance of the Strategy practice, leading business development and sales, managing team large teams to achieve defined goals.

She has managed delivery of large scale and complex projects including strategic planning; opportunity analyses; market feasibility studies and commercial due diligence assessments; business plans and financial Internal projections development; corporate restructuring / organizational change; operating model designs and implementation; enterprise performance and risk management framework designs; (strategic) cost optimization advisory etc. Relevant Industry experience includes Financial Services; Oil and Gas (upstream and downstream); Power; FMCG & Retail and Public sector.

As Partner, Strategy and Operations Transformation (SOT) At Phillips Consulting Limited, she was responsible for Identifying growth markets, developing strategies to exploit growth opportunities; leading the design  and rollout of new services; developing metrics and targets, driving financial /operational, monitoring performance, and manage key accounts comprising both public sector and private clients.

Foyinsola is a Chartered Accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accounts of Nigeria (ICAN), a graduate of Sociology and Anthropology from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, and currently an MBA student of the Lagos Business School, Pan-Atlantic University.

Owen Arasomwan has vast expertise in petroleum accounting, tax and finance having worked for close over a decade and as a chartered accountant and tax advisor for many global firms. He trained with Deloitte as both an auditor and consultant. During his time in Deloitte, he serviced many multinational organizations providing top notch assurance, systems documentation, controls mapping and review and business advisory services.

In the energy industry, he worked in Addax Petroleum (now known as Sinopec) as Budget and Tax Controller responsible for tax compliance, crude allocation calculation, NNPC and internal budget. He later joined Statoil, the Norwegian energy giant. While in Statoil Nigeria, he was responsible for restructuring the commercial department. He was later at the forefront of tax arbitration involving over $1 billion disputed claims between the international oil companies and NNPC and FIRS. He was an active member of different sub-committees of the OPTS including Tax, Terminal operations and legal. He is an expert in tax planning and advisory, petroleum and energy taxation, transfer pricing, etc.

A Chartered Accountant with over 18 years of professional experience; Owen is a graduate of Finance (B.Sc. M.Sc.) from the University of Lagos where he graduated as the best graduating student in the faculty in both instances. He has attended various trainings in and outside Nigeria. He is currently a sought-after trainer for many training schools within and outside the country.

A Management Consultant and Project Manager with passion and energy for best value delivery in several big-value initiatives in varied industries and sectors. Having worked with leading industry experts, top-management, and executives to identify key business issues and develop solutions, he has over the years garnered critical skills that has created business value and is still transforming several clients.
With about 15 years’ experience, he has led several teams and work-packages on various projects including Business transformational initiatives, IT projects, financial reporting and core business analysis. With active participation in landmark projects, he has been able to propose viable solutions and management alternatives; identify and nib project risks and issues; provide leadership to teams and a critical support to projects.
Key transformational project experiences include:
• Led and delivered Strategy & Business Transformation projects (Design & Implementation) for customers across various industries
• Led and delivered Business Process Re-engineering Projects (Design & Implementation) covering functional areas ranging from Core Operations, HR, IT, Finance, Internal Audit to Supply Chain Management for Manufacturing, Transport & Logistics, Banking, Hotels & Hospitality, and Life and General Insurance companies in Nigeria
• Provided Project Management and Business Analysis Services to ERP & Core apps. Implementation for several clients in manufacturing, financial services including Capital and Private Equity, Stockbroking and Asset management, and others
• Provided technical assistant Project Management and Governance Office of a Leading Bank in Africa
• Provided innovation and support for start-up enterprises including technology start-ups
• Facilitated soft and technical training for both internal and external persons (Public and Private Sectors) on IFRS, IPSAS, strategic planning, Sage ERP, Personal Efficiency, Leadership, and leading and other related topics.
• Supported IFRS and IPSAS implementation of some clients particularly on technical accounting and tax.
• Business Analysis for IT Roadmap Transformation Programme for leading Banks; and other interrelated IT projects aimed at repositioning Banks
• Led Forensic review and transactional investigation for a major health services provider
• Provided Business valuations, financial analysis and Tax reviews for clients in varied industries

Yemi Adewuyi has over 18 years’ experience in IT and Business transformation. Having worked with top-management and executives to identify key business issues and develop solutions, he has been involved in several transformational projects as a team member, delivery manager and project manager, under the auspice of Accenture and other leading consulting firms. These include:

• Managing a team that reviewed, analyzed and redesigned the Admin and Human Resources processes for the State House (Presidency).
• Managing the IT transformation of a leading Bank in Africa when she changed her Internet Banking application from Bankworld to Finacle E-Banking.
• Leading a team to review, analyze, redesign and implement the business and operational processes for a financial institution in Nigeria.
• Conducting market research / business review and developing the marketing strategy for a fuel ethanol program for a National Oil Bank.
• Contributing to the development and implementation of the financial functions of a National Oil Bank.
• Analyzing and recommending improvements to the Business processes of the finance functions of a National Oil Bank.
• Providing project management support for the upgrade of infrastructure for the receipt of imported fuel ethanol for blending with petroleum.