Meet Our Leadership

A seasoned legal practitioner with over 39 years’ experience. Chief Anthony Idigbe (SAN) is the Senior Partner at Punuka Attorneys & Solicitors. He was elevated to the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria in 2000 and has been admitted to practice law in Ontario, Canada.

He is a member of the Institute of Directors and the International Insolvency Institute and sat as the immediate past President of the Business Recovery and
Insolvency Practitioners Association of Nigeria (BRIPAN). He is the Founder and was the first Chairman of Capital Markets Solicitors Association (CMSA), and
now functions as a Trustee of the Association.

Toke Alex Ibru is The Executive Director of The Guardian, a role he has played for 10 years. In this time, he has overseen its transformation from a traditional newspaper to an all-encompassing integrated multimedia group.

In the last 15 years, doing business in Nigeria with unrivalled contacts across all sectors, Toke sits on the boards of The Guardian, Ikeja Hotels and Capital Hotels.
Toke is a History Graduate from Exeter University, UK.

Alh. Bulama is a graduate of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria with a degree in Accounting and an MBA. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN) and Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN).

He has over 38 years of varied working experience. His career included working with the State Civil Service, Merchant and Commercial Banking, Financial Consultancy and Capital Regulatory Sector at senior levels of responsibility. At various times he was on the Boards of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria (FRCN), Institute of Directors (IOD), Centre for Corporate Governance, Council of the CIBN, etc. He is currently on the Boards of Tourist Company of Nigeria Plc, Ikeja Hotel Plc and a member, Audit Committee of the CIBN.

Kemi Adeoye is Chief Financial Officer at Honeywell Group. She is responsible for accounting, financial reporting, and financial management for Honeywell Group Limited. She is also responsible for risk management and ensuring the adequacy and effectiveness of controls and Internal Audit across the Group. Kemi has over 20 years of work experience spanning, finance, accounting, and corporate treasury management. Prior to Honeywell Group, she worked with Baker Tilly, a leading Audit firm in Nigeria. While at Baker Tilly, Kemi led various audit engagements with local and multinational clients across different business sectors. In 2006, she joined Honeywell Group as a Senior Business Analyst working across business functions over time. She has, at different times, been responsible for Business and Information Systems

Management, Corporate Finance, Treasury Management, Financial Reporting, Budgeting, Portfolio and Risk Management. Kemi holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Oxford Brookes University and an MBA from the Lagos Business School. She is also a member of the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants (ACCA) and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN).

Ufuoma Ibru has thirteen years’ experience in hospitality investment and strategy, having participated in the planning, implementation and negotiation of public offers, special placements, offshore lending, private equity transactions and major loan restructuring in the hotel industry in Nigeria.

Ufuoma Ibru has delivered presentations and papers at a variety of investor and industry forums, including the London Stock Exchange, Renaissance Investor Conference, and Ter rapinn Hospitality Conference in South Africa.

Mr. Aluko’s background is in commercial banking, principally in Nigeria and punctuated by on-the-job attachments and training stints in England. The long career with Barclays Bank, which later became Union Bank, progressed through the ranks to senior management level and he subsequently worked with three other banks in Nigeria and The Gambia at Board level in both executive and non-executive capacities. He served as Member of Council, University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria between 1993 and 1995 before moving to the United Kingdom where he was Associate Director with JCE Consulting Associates UK, a private consultancy firm. Mr. Aluko is presently a freelance business consultant in investment banking and finance.

He studied banking with IFS University College, Canterbury, Kent, U.K, now known as London Institute of Banking & Finance, and is an alumnus of Manchester Business School where he completed the Commercial Banking Course. He attended several other professional courses during his banking career. Mr. Aluko is also presently serving as Non-Executive Director on the boards of Law Union & Rock Insurance Plc and Wise Health Services Limited.

Theophilus Eniola Netufo is a seasoned Business Administrator with relevant experience spanning over two and half decades. He obtained a Higher National Diploma with Upper Credit in Business Administration and Management from the Federal Polytechnic Akure, then Ado-Ekiti in 1985. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in May 1991 and was elected a Fellow of the Institute on March 29, 2001. He is a Certified Forensic Accountant and Fraud Examiner, and a Fellow of the International Institute of Certified Forensic Accountants.

Theophilus Eniola Netufo is also a Fellow of Chartered Institute of Taxation, Member, Nigeria Institute of Management and an active member of Institute of Directors (IOD) having satisfactorily completed courses 1 and 2 of the Institute in 2016, and participated in The Independent Directors’ Masterclass Programme on August 23, 2018. He is a Member, Faculty of Insolvency and Corporate Re-Engineering of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria.

He has put in several years of meritorious services in Professional Practice, in Multinational and Hospitality organizations. He served previously in senior Management position with Coca-Cola Nigeria, (African Division) where he handled financial services responsibilities for Africa, Middle East and Europe. He upgraded his skills regularly by participating in Seminars and Conferences both in Nigeria and abroad.