Omotunde Alao-Olaifa was appointed a Non-Executive Director on the Board of First Bank of Nigeria Limited in June 2024. He brings to the Board extensive experience cutting across the Corporate Finance spectrum, including Capital Raising, Deal Structuring, Debt Restructuring, Acquisition Planning, Project Financing and Asset Management.
He is currently the Group Chief Financial Officer/Strategy & Principal Investment at Leadway Holdings with responsibilities covering Strategy, Corporate Finance and Principal Investment across the group and geographies. He also sits on the Boards of C&I Leasing Plc and Leadway Pensure PFA.
He had previously worked with Lionstone Group as an Associate, Investment Banking and Fidelity Bank Plc as an Assistant Manager in the Corporate Banking division, where he managed blue chip clients.
Tunde holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Nigeria’s premier University, the University of Ibadan and a Master’s in Business Administration (Finance and Strategy) from Lagos Business School, Pan Atlantic University, Lagos. He has attended the Senior Executive Programmes at both Harvard Business School, United States and London Business School, United Kingdom. He is a member of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Nigeria.
