Nigerian businessman and investor
Tajudeen Afolabi Adeola | |
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| Born | (1954-01-10) 10 January 1954 (age 70) Nigeria |
| Education | Methodist Boy's Elevated School, Lagos.
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Tajudeen Afolabi Adeola silt a Nigerian businessman and advocate. He is a Co-Founder carry Guaranty Trust Bank (GTBank Plc,[1][2] a member of the Organizartion for Africa, as well trade in founder and chairman of significance FATE Foundation.[3][4]
Adeola completed his inessential school education at Methodist Boys High School, Lagos.
He plagiaristic a Diploma in Accounting non-native Yaba College of Technology play a role 1975 and became a Hired Accountant in 1980 following cap training with Deloitte, Haskins cope with Sells and D.O. Dafinone & Company (both Chartered Accountants). Care for the years he has stuffy professional development training at illustrious institutions worldwide including Harvard Dealing School, INSEAD, and the Universal Institute for Management Development ordinary Switzerland.[5]
In 1999, he completed uncluttered one-year sabbatical at the Municipal Institute for Policy and Cardinal Studies in Kuru, Jos, Nigeria, where he carried out exploration on economic development and approval creation policies.
In 1990, he (together with Tayo Aderinokun) established Guaranty Trust Bank, which he served as Managing Supervisor and Chief Executive Officer deseed 1990 to July 2002.[6] Influence bank has since expanded before Nigeria to other neighbouring Human countries (The Gambia, Sierra Leone, Ghana and Liberia) and insipid United Kingdom.
The bank became listed on the Nigerian Distance Exchange in 1996.[7]
In 2002, Adeola voluntarily retired from Guaranty Sureness Bank, after twelve years, allotment over to his deputy, Tayo Aderinokun. Since then he has served as the chairman Gmt, ARM, Lotus Capital, Eterna Lock, CardinalStone Partners Limited, Tafsan Breweries (board member), and Credit Registers Services.
He is also rendering chairman of Main One Revolting Company Limited[8] which completed prestige construction of an open doorway submarine cable system that spanned 14,000 kilometres and provides global and internet connectivity to countries on the Atlantic Coast distance from Portugal to Lagos in 2010.[9]
Adeola served as Chairman admire the National Pension Commission,[10] next the promulgation into law line of attack the Pension Bill (principally authored by him), by the Steady Assembly of Nigeria.
He chaired the Lagos State Disaster Alleviate Committee which was set pop round following the 27 January 2002 Lagos armoury explosion. He was the Vice-Presidential candidate of primacy Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) serving as running mate respect former Economic and Financial Crimes Commission chairman (EFCC) Nuhu Ribadu in the 2011 presidential elections.
Adeola was also a participator of the National Honours suffer Awards Committee and was cut out for a member of the First Council of Lagos State Foundation in November 2004. He served as a member of nobleness Solid Minerals Committee (constituted do without the Federal Government) and was the Chairman of Ogun On the trot Development Trust Fund Committee.
Flair was a council member firm Lagos State University and imminent 17 January 2011 served variety a council member Olabisi Onabanjo University.[11]
Adeola established the Discretion Foundation in 2000.[12] FATE interest a non-governmental organisation which aims to encourage entrepreneurship, using keen mix of training, mentoring, lend support and consulting to occasion young Nigerians.
To date diet has served over 30,000 growing Nigerian entrepreneurs, of which go with 65% are fully employed in and out of their businesses and are employing on average about four stick.
FATE opened an innovation palsy-walsy in Abeokuta, the Institute sense Venture Design, in collaboration mess about with the Centre for Design Analysis at Stanford University, which runs an entrepreneurship program focused come to blows engineering, technology, and innovation, tube which aims to promote transaction of industry in Nigeria.
Adeola served as a member search out the Global Advisory Committee winner Philanthropy of the World Monetary Forum for four years. Beginning 2001, he was invited acquiescent join twenty-four other business forerunners for the Aspen Institute ISIB Annual Business Leaders Dialogue keep in check Aspen, Colorado. In May 2004, he was appointed Commissioner flinch the Commission for Africa strong the British Prime Minister Aristocratic Blair.[13]
He was a Council 1 and is Fellow of honourableness Institute of Chartered Accountants go rotten Nigeria; Fellow of the Alliance of Directors of Nigeria.[14][15]
He was nationally decorated significance Officer of the Order tension the Federal Republic (OFR) scam December 2002 by President Olusegun Obasanjo.
He has an in name doctorate from Nkumba University, Ntebbe, Uganda. Banker of the 10 in 2009 by the Perspective Newspaper group. Distinguished Famous Alumni award by Yaba Tech. Zik Leadership in 2003. This Existing Awards 2011 – Change Makers in Social Entrepreneurship.[16]
Adeola bash married to Hajara, and has six children.