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 the legal practice.
The members of the management team have a combined experience of over 50 years.
CEO/Managing Director
Hajara Adeola
Hajara Adeola is the Managing Director and Chief Executive of Lotus Capital Limited. She has over 20 years experience working in top-tier global investment banks in the UK and Nigeria, where she focused on research and analyses, investment management, Islamic finance, and corporate finance.
Prior to founding Lotus Capital, she previously worked with Arthur Anderson Consulting (now Accenture). UBS Warburg, BNP Paribas and ARM Investment Managers. Hajara is regarded as the top industry expert in Islamic fund management in Nigeria.
Mrs. Adeola is the first President of the Fund Manager’s Association of Nigeria. She is also the Chairperson of the Securities & Exchange Commission’s Non-Interest Capital Market 10year master plan committee. She is a member of the SEC Capital Market Master Plan Implementation Council (CAMMIC) and a member of the Nigeria Stock Exchange Fixed Income Products Advisory Committee. Hajara is a Director of the Aliko Dangote Foundation.
Qualifications: MSc Finance (Durham University) MBA International Management (Exeter University) BSc Pharmacology (King’s College, London).
Hajara Adeola
Chief Operating Officer
Toyin KEKERE-EKUN
Toyin Kekere-Ekun has 20 years’ experience that transverses Financial & Operational Strategy, Business Development, Islamic Finance, and Business Process Management.
She currently manages the Business Development Group at Lotus Capital, and also steers the Strategy Implementation Committee of the company. She is an alumnus of the Cambridge Islamic Finance Leadership Program, and is also a member of the Technical and Enlightenment Committee of the Fund Managers Association of Nigeria.
Toyin previously worked at Guaranty Trust Bank’s Corporate Banking Group, where she conducted credit structuring, loan syndication and relationship management for large local Corporates and Multinationals. She also worked in the bank’s Treasury where she headed the ALM Department managing the Balance Sheet Structure and Liquidity. Toyin also worked at Stanbic IBTC Bank as the Segment Manager for Islamic Banking, where she was responsible for developing strategies to promote business growth, customer acquisition, retention and profitability.
Toyin is a Chartered Accountant,with an MSc in Finance and Management from Cranfield School of Management UK. She also holds a BSc degree in Accounting from the University of Lagos.
Toyin KEKERE-EKUN
Chief Financial Officer
Moshood BABATUNDE
Moshood is the Group Chief Financial Officer of Lotus Capital Limited with over 13 years of financial and business management experience in Banking sector and capital market. His areas of specialty include corporate strategies, financial advisory, portfolio management, treasury management, corporate restructuring, audit, tax management, financial performance measurement, Enterprise Risk Management and Business analytics.
He has previously worked as an accountant with a consulting & project management firm(Mc Coy Zalm Nigeria Ltd) where he was responsible for field projects management, business operations, financial management & reporting. He also worked with Access Bank Plc from where he joined Lotus Capital Limited.
Moshood is an Associate member (ACA) of the Institute of Chartered Accountant of Nigeria (ICAN). He holds an MBA (Distinction) with specialization in Management and Higher National Diploma (Distinction) in Accounting. He is an alumnus of Lagos Business School and University of Lagos.
Moshood BABATUNDE
Head, Legal and Company Secretary
Mas’ud BALOGUN
Mas’ud Balogun is in charge of legal, regulatory, sharia governance and company secretariat services. Prior to joining Lotus Capital, Mas’ud worked with Olaiwun Ajayi LP and the London Office of Norton Rose Fulbright. He has extensive experience in drafting, finance, dispute resolution and capital market transactions across mergers and acquisitions, fund management, share reconstruction, project finance and securities issuances.
Qualifications: B. L (Nigerian Law School), LL. B (Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria)
Mas’ud BALOGUN
Head, Strategy & Corporate Service
Adebola SAMSON-FATOKUN
Adebola Samson-Fatokun is the Head of Strategy and Corporate Services. Adebola has over twenty-five years of industry experience in transformational people practices in the construction, aviation and financial industries.
Adebola has served as management committee member in multinational and multicultural environments across Sub-Sahara Africa. Prior to joining Lotus Capital, she was the Group HR Generalist for Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (Domestic Bank unit) after having headed the human resources of Ecobank Development Corporation across its regional offices (Cameroun, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria). She worked extensively as the Human Resources Manager in the aviation sector with Air France and later, Air France-KLM upon their merger.
Adebola holds an MSc in International Human Resource Management (Cranfield University, UK), BA Foreign Languages (Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria), Strategic Human Resources Leadership Certificate (Cornell University, USA). She is also a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD) UK and a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management (CIPM) Nigeria. Adebola is bilingual, speaking and writing French and English fluently.
Adebola SAMSON-FATOKUN
Head, Structured Finance
Gregory OGBEBOR
Gregory Ogbebor has over 10 years of experience working on portfolio management, credit analysis, financial advisory, Islamic finance, corporate finance and securities issuances.
Qualifications: MSc Finance (University of Lagos), BSc Banking and Finance (University of Benin), Associate member, Institute of Loan and Risk Management
Gregory OGBEBOR
Head, Investment Management & Research
Ndako MIJINDADI
Ndako has over ten years’ experience covering research, investment management and financial advisory.
Ndako started his career as an analyst with the consultancy firm ITS International. Thereafter, he worked as a Senior Analyst with Agusto & Co., Nigeria’s pioneer credit rating agency, and was the lead analyst on corporate and sub-sovereign debt. Ndako later served as the company’s Regional Representative in East Africa and assisted regulators and potential issuers on their preparedness for sub-sovereign debt issuance.
After leaving Agusto & Co., Ndako joined Lotus Capital as a Portfolio Manager and rose to his current position as Head, Investment and Research unit, responsible for managing several investment portfolios, including, mutual funds, an exchange traded fund and private client accounts. He also advises institutional clients on capital raising and facilitates trainings on financial analysis, debt issuance, sukuk and Islamic finance.
Ndako has an MSc. in Financial Management from the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen and a BSc. in Economics from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. He is a Certified Islamic Finance Executive (CIFE).
