Mrs. Olufunmilayo Adedibu
Olufunmilayo Adedibu (Also known as Funmi Adedibu) is the Company Secretary/Group Counsel.
Funmi is a lawyer with wealth of experience in Legal practice and Banking. She graduated from Obafemi Awolowo University where she obtained a bachelor’s degree in Law (LL. B), then proceeded to the Nigerian Law School where she obtained a B.L. She holds a Master of Law degree (LL.M) from the University of Lagos.
She started her legal career with the Law firm of Chris Ogunbanjo and Co where she garnered a lot of experience in Copyrights and Patent Laws before joining the banking Industry.
Funmi has over 29 post-graduation experience out of which 25 years has been in banking with experience spanning Corporate Banking, Commercial Banking, Risk Management, Banking Operations and currently Group Legal Services, Company Secretarial, Insurance and Compliance.
She has attended a number of Leadership and Management trainings from Harvard Business School, Queen’s School of Business Canada, Lagos Business School as well as Euromoney Loan Documentation and Advanced Loan Documentation Trainings in New York,
She is a member of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), International Bar Association (IBA), Life member of the Institute of Directors (IoD), a Honorary member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (HCIB) and Toastmasters International.
Mr. Gbolahan Joshua
Mr. Gbolahan Joshua was born on 17 March 1975. He has over 21 years of banking experience across various areas, including Finance, Strategy, Business Transformation, Investor Relations, Performance Management, Treasury, Operations, Technology and Digital Banking. He has served in various leadership capacities as CFO, CIO and COO.
Prior to joining FCMB Group as Chief Operating Officer (COO), he was the Executive Director, Chief Operations and Information Officer with Fidelity Bank Plc, where he led various transformation initiatives.
One of his remarkable achievements was the Introduction of a proprietary performance management software/tool that significantly improved employee productivity and ROE of the institution. He was the Project Director for several initiatives including the technology refresh project, digital transformation project and 3 successful International and local debt capital raising transactions in the last 5 years.
He attended Kings College Lagos, is a graduate of Olabisi Onabanjo University, an Associate Member (ACA) of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) and a Senior Member (HCIB) of the Chartered Institute of Bankers (CIBN).
He has attended executive training programs at leading business schools including Harvard, Stanford, IMD, INSEAD and IESE.
Mr. Joshua joined the Board of FCMB Group Plc effective 2 September 2021.