Biodun Dabiri

Biodun Dabiri

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Chairman

Biodun Dabiri is a consummate corporate finance specialist who has handled some of the largest and most complex transactions in the Nigerian capital markets over a period spanning 24 years. He was involved in the conceptualization, capitalization and restructuring of a wide variety of ideas and companies. He set up and nurtured a number of successful business units including the Capital Consortium Limited, an asset management company and Radix Capital Partners Limited, where he is currently the Managing Director/CEO. Biodun, in conjunction with a group of investors, packaged the corporate spin off of Guaranty Trust Bank Plc’s shareholdings in Magnum Trust Bank Plc (now part of Sterling Bank Plc) and co -managed the bank from 1999 to 2007. Pursuant to the Nigerian banking consolidation directives, he put together the investment banking competencies of the banks that merged into Sterling Bank Plc, to form Sterling Capital Markets, which he managed until his resignation in 2008. During this period, Sterling Capital Markets Limited rose to become one of the best known investment banking institutions in Nigeria. He led a team that raised over N650billion in 25 transactions for the financial services, oil and manufacturing sectors. He played a prominent role in merger and acquisition activities, local and off shore fund raising activities consummated during the first and second rounds of the financial sector consolidation exercises.

Biodun is a 1977 graduate of the University of Ibadan, a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountant of Nigeria having trained with Deloitte, Haskins & Sells (now Deloitte Touche) Chartered Accountants. He is a member of the Board of the Central Securities Clearing System (CSCS) [the central depository of the Nigerian capital market, which he helped midwife], a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers and a dealing member of the Nigerian Stock Exchange. He is also a committee member of the Lagos-Ogun Megacity Development Authority.

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