Lotus Capital has seasoned managers with extensive experience in the investment management and corporate finance field. The team possesses the necessary skills to offer a professional well-managed service, through specialist in-depth knowledge and best practice of Islamic Finance,global investments and finance and legal practice. The members of the management team have combined experience of almost 50 years. In addition to the Managing Director, Mrs Hajara Adeola,the management team is made up of:

Taofiq Agbaje Investment Management and Research
Taofiq Agbaje is a 1990 graduate of Actuarial Science from the University of Lagos. He has over fourteen years experience in various areas of Investment Banking. Prior to joining Lotus Capital, he was a Senior Manager,Credit Analysis and Risk Management in Marina International Bank (now Access Bank). Mr Agbaje had overall responsibility for credit risk management, credit analysis and remedial management of credits. He also had exposure to the stock broking arm of the bank where he was a member of the investment committee responsible for providing financial advice to corporate clients. Mr Agbaje also coordinated the integration of the broad based banking software (flexcube). Mr Agbaje began his career as an executive of Metropolitan Bank in the operations and credit units. Taofiq is a Microsoft Certified Professional and also holds a Diploma in Computer Science.

Funke Junaid Company Secretary and Corporate Services
Mrs Junaid has over fourteen years of active business experience in a multi-skilled career spanning legal services, sales, customer service, and business administration. Her career has included various positions in several companies including Bidat Sportswear Limited and Brands International Limited where she rose to the position of Deputy General Manager. Her responsibilities included Company secretarial work, administration, HR and general company operations.
Before joining Lotus Capital Limited, she was an Associate Partner with Taiwo Shittu and Co., a firm of solicitors. Her experience included commercial and legal advisory work with corporate bodies (mostly financial institutions and other multinationals), company secretarial work, liquidations and receiverships. Funke Junaid holds an LL.B from Ogun State University, Ago Iwoye. She was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1989.

Attahiru Maccido Investment Management and Research
Attahiru Maccido comes to Lotus Capital from Profund Securities Limited where he was a Manager heading the Equity and Debt Issues Department. His responsibilities included packaging applications of companies trying to access the Capital Market, mergers and acquisition, restructuring and portfolio management for corporate and individual clients.

He has also worked with The Securities and Exchange Commission as an Assistant Manager in the Securities and Investment Services Department. His main responsibilities included vetting company offer documents before issuance of securities to the public and vetting allotment proposals before clearance.

Attahiru Maccido has an MSc in Economics from University of Abuja and a BSc in Economics from Usman Danfodio University, Sokoto.

Olumide Lawson Financial Controller

Olumide Lawson comes to Lotus Capital from Legacy Realties Limited where he was a Vice President heading their Finance and Planning Group. His responsibilities included development and implementation of the company’s and projects’ financial strategy (with scope covering project funding, treasury management, etc). He was also responsible for Planning and Budgeting process as well as Revenue Assurance. Olumide began his career as a Graduate Assistant in the Commercial Banking Group of Guaranty Trust Bank Plc. From there he joined the Financial Control Unit of the erstwhile Asset & Resource Management Company Limited (now ARM Investment Managers) as an Accounting Associate and rose to the position of Company Accountant. His responsibilities included several duties in the area of Financial and Fund Accounting like funds transfer, preparation of management accounts and settling of capital market trades. He was also responsible for the administration of the database of Pension Fund Clients with over 2,500 contributing members. In all, Olumide has over 11 years of experience in Financial Accounting and Control. He has also been invited by Kimberly Ryan to serve as one of their Technical Assessors during its competency tests to individuals at the assessment centre.