Dapo Oshinusi is the Founder, CEO/Managing Director of Mansfield Energy, a leading provider of oil and gas services in West and South Africa. He was President of Reslink for Africa after working with Schlumberger for more than 20 years in Europe, Middle East and Africa. He sits of the board of several companies including Main One Cable Company and Compression and Power Systems Limited. He was Chairman of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), Lagos section in 1999-2000. He was the Secretary of Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria (PETAN), an association committed to the development of the Nigerian content with the transfer of technology to Nigerians in the oil and gas sector.

He attended Government College Ibadan, University of Ibadan and several executive development programs in various Universities that include; Harvard Business School, USA, Georgetown University, USA, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, University of Tulsa, USA and Heriot-Watt University, Scotland.

Deji Alli is the Chief Executive Officer of Mixta Real Estate Plc, a pan-African real estate development company headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria with subsidiary operations in Morocco, Tunisia, Senegal and Côte d’Ivoire. Prior to this, he served as founding CEO of Asset & Resource Management Holding Company Limited, a role which he stepped down from in July 2015. Deji’s career also spans Prudential Portfolio Managers Limited, UK and the African Development Bank (ADB).

Deji holds a BSc degree in Accounting and a postgraduate degree in Finance from the University of Lagos. He is also an Associate member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, UK. He was conferred the National Honours Award — Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR) in 2014 in recognition of his contributions to the Nigerian financial services industry.

Ms. Soula Proxenos holds several independent non-executive directorships and is an adjunct lecturer at Johns Hopkins SAIS and the Carey Business School. She was previously Managing Director of International Housing Solutions (IHS), the South African real estate fund manager focused on the development and management of affordable housing communities.

Ms. Proxenos also held the position of Managing Director, International Housing Finance Services at Fannie Mae, at the time a fortune 10 American company that buys and guarantees mortgages in the United States of America. She previously had global responsibilities at Old Mutual including the transformation of Old Mutual’s business. She brings more than 30 years of financial services experience and holds an MBA from Stellenbosch as well as a BA from Witwatersrand University.

Sadiq Mohammed is currently the Deputy Group CEO of ARM. Prior to that, he was the Managing Director of ARM Pensions between 2011 and 2014. Previously, at different points he served as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of ARM Group and the Managing Director in charge of ARM’s Proprietary Business. He was at Arthur Andersen Nigeria (now KPMG Professional Services) before he joined ARM in 1996 and was appointed to the board of ARM in 2010.

Sadiq is an Industrial Chemistry graduate from Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, and a Fellow of the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) having earned GARP’s Financial Risk Manager (FRM) charter. He earned a dual Executive MBA from Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of Geneva in 2006 and is also an alumnus of Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program (AMP).

Sadiq serves on the boards of several companies within the ARM Group, the Moorhouse Hotel, etc. He had in the past, served on the Boards of FMDQ OTC Plc, Lekki Concession Company (LCC), as well as being Chairman of the Pension Operators (PenOp) Technical Committee for 2 terms.

Mr. Seyi Owodunni is a chartered accountant with executive experience spanning telecommunications, technology, financial services, real estate, manufacturing, consumer goods and energy. He has over 28 years’ experience  in Investment Management, Private Equity/ Deal Structuring and Financial Consulting, with expertise in capturing profitable growth opportunities and delivering business results for diverse shareholders.

He held the position of Managing Director/CEO for Emerging Capital Partners, a $2Bn Africa Focused Private Equity Fund Manager and is currently the Chief Executive Officer, Tilion Capital, a boutique advisory firm advising high growth businesses on optimizing financial structures and sourcing equity and debt capital.

He graduated with Honours from Brownstone University and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Benson Ajayi is the CFO of Mixta Africa with over 28 years’ experience in Finance and Consulting. He was the Executive Director, Finance and Acting CEO at Lekki Concession Company (“LCC”) and played a key role in Nigeria’s pioneering PPP infrastructure project.

Benson has worked in various capacities in Michael Stevens, UAC of Nigeria Plc, NCR Nigeria Limited and ARM. He holds a BSc in Geography and an MBA in Financial Management from the Obafemi Awolowo University and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria.

Ugochukwu Ndubuisi is the Executive Director, Legal & Corporate Services of the Mixta Africa Group, a role he assumed in 2020. In this role, he oversees the legal unit, corporate services department and general administration of the Company. Prior to assuming this role, he was Head, Legal and Corporate Services Department of Mixta Real Estate Plc. Prior to this role, he worked as a Senior Counsel in Asset & Resource Management Holding Company Limited.

He holds a First Class Degree in Law from the University of Ibadan and was called to the Nigerian Bar in 2007. He also hold a Master’s Degree (Distinction) from the University College London with specialization in the Law of Banking & Finance.