Executive Members

A strategic Banking Leader with about 2 decade experience in banking spanning digital Payment, Information Systems, financial control, Performance Management, budgeting and strategic planning, Credit and Retail banking. Technology savvy and recognized for initiating sweeping improvements to electronic product development, operations and marketing with oversight in Credit card transactions. Conceptualising and creating revenue opportunities with sharpened focus on e-business, outsourced application development, and addition of stretch goals that motivate staff to higher achievement.

Highly skilled in managing all aspects of Card business including all the operations of e- business channels, Stabilising operations, addressing volatile regulatory requirements, and top grading products offerings to deliver optimal ROI; unrelenting passion for E-payment and its deployment in the achievement of business/organisational goals.
Currently the head of Card Business and solutions at Zenith Bank Plc

Ajibade Laolu-Adewale is the Group Head, Partnerships, Digital Solutions and FINTECHs in WEMA Bank with responsibility to deepen relationship with Government, Businesses and Consumers for acquisition, value-added transactions and support. Ajibade is a certified cards and payments expert. In this role, he is responsible for deepening relationships with government entities, businesses, and consumers to facilitate acquisition, value added transaction and support.

Olayinka Odusote…

Gbolabo is a result-driven finance professional with over 16+ years experience in developing, implementing and driving digital payment solutions across Africa. He currently heads the payment and acceptance business at the United Bank for Africa where he is responsible for overseeing and growing the business across 20 countries in Africa.

He has worked with multiple financial institutions in different capacities and roles and has successfully managed key payment products across Cards, USSD, Mobile Banking, Web Payment, Online Banking, Chat Banking and API Banking.

He is a graduate of the University of Lagos and also possesses a Masters degree from the Warwick Business School in the UK. Gbolabo is a Certified Chartered Accountant with the renowned UK professional accounting body ACCA and has undergone numerous specialist training in card payments at both local and international institutions.

Currently the Group Head, Digital & Retail Payments Group in FCMB, Temitope Onibaniyi is a Card and Digital Payments Specialist with about 2 decades experience in Card Management, Channels Deployment, Product Development, Digital Platform Management and Merchant Acceptance Business. He joined FCMB in 2018 and later assumed the position of Head of Cards – managing the bank’s Card portfolio with strong commercial orientation.

Temitope started his Banking career in 2005 with the defunct Omega Bank; joined Access Bank in 2006 and later moved to Skye Bank (Polaris Bank) in 2015. While in Access Bank, he served in different capacities and was a member of the pioneer team that laid the foundation and framework of what has evolved into the “Access Bank Digital Banking” today.

He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics (Second-Class Upper Division) from the University of Ilorin and a Distinction in MBA with specialization in ‘Advanced AI & The Future of Automation’ from Nexford University, Washington DC, USA. He is a Certified Cards and Payments Professional from the Retail Banking Academy (RBA), London.

Omotayo Adediran is a top-tier manager with over 16 years of experience and excellent performance in the banking industry cutting across sales and relationship management in retail banking, SME banking, commercial banking, digital solutions, and product management. He is currently the Head of Digital Solutions at Stanbic Bank Plc where he is responsible for implementing, enabling, maintaining, securing, and entrenching the digital platforms and functionality for clients and stakeholders.

Amongst others, his core competencies are in digital solutions, product development, bank branch management, finance and risk management, client relations and retention, strategic business process and productivity improvement, strategic and tactical business planning, and implementation. In giving credence to his competencies, Omotayo is reputable for turning around non-performing business locations/branches/platforms and products.

Omotayo holds a Doctorate in Business Administration with focus on product innovation and development from the prestigious Swiss Business School (SBS), Masters degrees from Obafemi Awolowo University and University of Ibadan. He has undergone senior management programs from the Global Leadership Center (GLC), Johannesburg and the Lagos Business School. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN), a Certified Scrum Product Owner and a Certified ScrumMaster. Omotayo has undergone trainings in several reputable local and international organizations.

Adeyinka Shorungbe

Lovelyn Iruayenama is an astute banker and a strategic Business enabler with over 14 years’ experience traversing the Corporate Banking, commercial Banking, retail Banking and digital payments. Before transitioning into the Banking sector, she exhibited business acumen and capacity to crunch numbers when she worked with the Nigerian bottling company (NBC) as a resident market developer by displaying prowess in driving the retail strategy and increasing the market share. She holds a B.Sc from the University of Calabar.

Her Banking career started as a Relationship Manager in various Banks where she has developed and maintained strong customer relationships for both internal and external clients thereby surpassing set goals, objectives and expectations before moving to the e-Business division at Heritage Bank where she has been able to revamp the POS and ATM Business by providing strategic partnerships, product expansion, creating revenue opportunities and encouraging Organic Growth within the e-Business division. She has also worked in various capacities in different committees within the financial sector. She is currently the Group Head ATM/POS and regional eBusiness at Heritage Bank.

Maryam Unokhua

Kingsley Iyamu is a successful Digital banking, Retail Business, Operational and Transformational Change leader, FMCG foundations. He has over 23 years of experience managing Tech Product Managers, leading Operational Excellence, Customer Service Experience & Management, Business Process/Product Improvement, Sales, Marketing, Banking Operations. He has driven many strategic initiatives across multifunctional teams in the financial services industry and Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) industry.

With a focus to optimization for revenue, he has also successfully led multiple strategic enterprise transformation initiatives facilitating improved job efficiency and reliability, which guarantee improved customer experience, business growth and revenue, while fostering quality assurance, policy compliance and healthy stakeholder relationships across diverse divisions.

He currently heads the Digital banking, E-business and Payment Group at Unity Bank driving growth, reliability and user experience.