Profile
Mrs Adeniji is the executive director in charge of micro-enterprises. Her expertise in the financial industry spans various areas. She has acquired considerable experience at the International Finance Corporation (IFC) as Investment Officer in the Syndications & International Securities and Global Mining Departments, Head, Women in Business and Principal Operations Officer, SME Development.
She also functioned as the Managing Director of Susu Microfinance Bank Limited, an institution licensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria to provide a broad range of financial services to micro-entrepreneurs and the unbanked market. Before her engagement with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), Mrs Adeniji had a brief stint with Arthur Anderson (Chartered Accountants).
She holds a Bachelor of Science (B. Sc.) Degree in Civil Engineering with Second Class Honours (Upper Division) from the University of Lagos and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) Degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. She is also an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria.
Capabilities
Mr. Simon Aranonu has held the position of Executive Director of the Bank’s Large Enterprises Directorate since August 2016. His responsibilities include developing the Bank’s strategy for Nigeria’s larger corporates as well as managing BOI’s team in charge of the Large Enterprise loan portfolio.
Mr. Aranonu boasts of more than 30 years banking and financial consulting experience, including several senior positions in some of Nigeria’s better-known financial institutions. His significant expertise lies particularly with credit and corporate governance.
Mr. Aranonu’s banking career began in 1987 when he joined Chase Merchant Bank, later becoming Continental Merchant Bank, where he spent three (3) years in various Middle Management positions. In 2008, Mr. Aranonu was appointed Executive Director at Intercontinental Bank Plc (now Access Bank Plc) and had served as Executive Director in Global Bank Plc. He also worked at various times for Liberty Merchant Bank as an Assistant General Manager and also at Manufacturers Merchant Bank as an Assistant Manager.
Mr. Aranonu holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka where in 1984, he also won the University Foundation Prize as the Best Graduating Student in Finance. He is also a Graduate of the Advance Management Programme of Stanford University California, United States.
Mr. Aranonu is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria and an Honorary Senior Member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria.
An avid scholar, Mr. Aranonu has attended various business leadership programmes throughout his career, including courses at Harvard Business School, Chicago Business School, Columbia Business School, New York and Cranfield University UK. Other training programmes that he has attended included courses at Citibank School of Banking, New York, Chase Manhattan Bank, New York and Mellon Bank, Philadelphia. Mr. Aranonu has also been trained in Kellogg School of Management, Chicago, Illinois and Wharton Business School, Pennsylvania both in the United States. In the spring of 2000, Mr. Aranonu became a beneficiary of the USAID-sponsored Best and Brightest African Bankers training programme in the USA.
Mr. Aranonu is also licensed by the IFC to train Company Directors on Corporate Governance