Professor Oluwatoyin Ashiru was born on 28 July 1954. He is a graduate of the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK, where he obtained a BSc in Materials Science and Engineering. He concluded his PhD at the University of Birmingham, UK in Industrial Metallurgy.

He began his career as a lecturer in mechanical engineering at the Universities of Lagos and Ibadan before serving as Nigerian Senior Research Fellow at the International Tin Research Institute in the UK. He is currently the Managing Director/CEO of Tricontinental Oil Services Ltd.

He is an accomplished materials and metallurgical engineer with about 40 years of comprehensive professional experience in academia, entrepreneurship, management engineering, technologies invention and consulting for the enhancement of productivity in major industries worldwide.

He also has a strong background in programme development and quality assurance, with an outstanding history of managing projects from initial conception, through development, to implementation for major oil and gas, chemical, petrochemical, steel production and energy production industries worldwide. He holds an exceptional record for executing mission-critical projects on schedule and within budget, and is highly skilled in strategic planning, budget controls and problem solving. He also has extensive international experience in the UK, the US, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the Far East and Asia.

Professor Ashiru has extensive project management experience in major international refining, chemical, petrochemical, offshore oil and gas development, pipeline, infrastructure and power generation projects ranging from US$40 million to US$2 billion.

He is also a successful businessman who has worked extensively on multinational joint venture projects representing owners or as a contractor.

He has served on joint venture and consortium executive committees and has participated directly in claims negotiations and settlement agreements in excess of US$100 million. His wealth of experience also includes member of the governing board responsible for strategic and operational decisions, and he was responsible for world-wide engineering operations for proposals and projects.

Professor Ashiru is an expert consultant and board member of many international research centres and major industrial sectors, and he has served worldwide on various governmental multidisciplinary task forces and technical committees.

Professor Ashiru holds American, British, European, Brazilian, and other international patents for products and systems that he invented. He is a recipient of several merit awards, including (but not limited to) his recognition in the US as a 'Professional with Extraordinary Ability', listings in Who's Who in the World and the Dictionary of International Biography, and the prestigious Distinguished Innovator Award of the Association of Tin Producing Countries.

Professor Ashiru joined the Board of FCMB Group Plc on 23 December 2013.

Dr. Gregory Ero was born on 1 July 1947. He is a graduate of the University of Ibadan with a BSc (Honours) in Chemistry. He attended Imperial College, London, where he obtained an MSc and DIC in Petroleum Engineering, and he obtained a DMS from Templeton College, University of Oxford. He furthered his studies at the Graduate School of Business, University of Columbia, New York and the Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland.

He began his career as a petroleum engineer in the Lagos office of the Federal Ministry of Petroleum and Energy, and thereafter, was posted as Head, Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources, Warri. He spent much of his career in the public service, where he served in many capacities, spanning three decades in the petroleum industry at NNPC. He has held many positions, including CEO/Group General Manager of NAPIMS-NNPC; Managing Director, National Engineering and Technical Company (NETCO) – a joint venture owned by NNPC and Betchel of the US and several executive positions in NNPC.

Dr. Gregory Ero is a Fellow of many professional bodies and Fellow, Institute of Directors of Great Britain. He is presently the Chairman/CEO of Arkleen Oil and Gas Ltd and Chairman, Cardinal Drilling Company Ltd, among others.

He joined the Board of FCMB Group Plc on 23 December 2013.

Alhaji Mustapha Damcida was born on 20 March 1963. He holds a Diploma in Law from Ahmadu Bello University and a BSc in Business Administration from Robert Morris University, Pittsburgh, United States.

He is the MD/CEO of Damus International Limited, Damus Security Solutions Limited and Damson Properties Limited. He was a Director at the Nigerian American Bank Limited between 2004 and 2005. He also sits on the Boards of Chanrai Nigeria Ltd, Trevi Foundations Ltd, Unique Pharmaceuticals Ltd, and Kewalram Nig. Ltd.

Prior to joining the Board of FCMB Group Plc as a Non- Executive Director on 1 July 2013, he served on the Board of First City Monument Bank Limited.

Mr. Ladi Balogun was born on 12 April 1972. He holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of East Anglia, UK and an MBA from Harvard Business School, US. He has over 20 years' experience in commercial and investment banking in Europe, the US and Africa.

Mr. Balogun began his banking career in 1993 at Morgan Grenfell & Co Limited, where he worked in the areas of risk management and corporate finance (debt origination). He was responsible for managing the bank's trading and investment positions in debt instruments in Latin America and Eastern Europe, and also part of a team that structured numerous complex debt deals in Latin America, Eastern Europe and the Asian subcontinent. Subsequently, he worked at Citibank in New York before returning to Nigeria as an Executive Assistant to the Chairman and Chief Executive in 1996.

He has worked in various areas of the Bank, including Treasury, Corporate Banking and Investment Banking. He was appointed an Executive Director in charge of the Institutional Banking Group (IBG) in 1997.

In 2000, he was made Executive Director in charge of Strategy and Business Development, and in 2001 he rose to the position of the Bank's Deputy Managing Director and was subsequently appointed Managing Director of First City Monument Bank Plc (now First City Monument Bank

Limited).

Mr. Ladi Balogun became the Group Chief Executive of FCMB Group Plc effective 14 March 2017.