MR. KUNLE JINADU

Kunle is a prolific investment banker and accountant. With almost 40 years of experience working in various financial roles for many different companies, he is a respected member of the Nigerian financial sector.

He is currently Director/Founder at Traxivest, a business advisory and agricultural development company.
Prior to Founding Traxivest, he was the Managing Director/CEO of First Pension Custodian Nigeria Limited. He was promoted to this role from being the Executive Director of Operations and Information Technology. Before this, he was the Chief Operations Officer.
Prior to joining the company, he was a consultant in the pension industry, working on the introduction of the Custodian function into pensions administration in Nigeria. This came after his early retirement as the General Manager of Corporate Finance with Stanbic Bank Nigeria Limited where he was responsible for the management and implementation of all Corporate Finance-related transactions and custodial banking services.

Kunle has single handedly established two sub-custody operations in Nigeria: Stanbic (now StanbicIBTC) Custody Operations (Stanbic Nominees), a division of the StanbicIBTC Bank Nigeria Limited (1994) and FBN Global Custody, A division of First Bank of Nigeria Plc (2007)
He is an associate fellow in both the Chartered Institute of Stock Brokers and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, and he’s a certified member of the Nigerian Stock Exchange.

He holds a Bachelor of Science (B Sc. Hons.) in Accounting from The University of Benin, Nigeria. During the pursuit of his higher education, he obtained a certificate of high academic Standing as one of the best Students in the university from the Federal Ministry of Education.
He has attended quite a number of courses/workshops and worked on exchange programs in a number of countries such as India, South Africa, United Kingdom and Ghana etc.