Dr Nnaemeka Onyeka Obiaraeri, FICA, MIRA
Managing Director/CEO
Dr Nnaemeka Onyeka Obiaraeri, FICA, MIRA is the Managing Director/CEO of Taurus Capital & Advisory Limited, the Pan African Investment Banking Firm www.taurus-capital.com
He is a Certified Financial Engineer/Investment Banking Executive with broad experience/skills in all aspects of Equities & Debts Origination, Structuring, Execution, Syndication and Distribution; Project Finance; Correspondent Banking; Structured Finance; Securities Trading & Treasury Management; Financial Advisory; Portfolio Management; Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Financing and Private Equity Funds Management (Managed funds/portfolios in excess of USD65million).
Diverse and direct experience/involvement in Capital Raising exercises in excess of N3trillion (US$3billion) for Corporate Organizations and Governments in the local and international capital markets. Nnaemeka has special interests in early-stage start-ups (Greenfields) as well as companies “on the bubble.”
He was instrumental to the setting up of Guardian Express Trusts Limited (Now a member of Pan African Capital Markets Limited).
He has at different times held high profile positions in some notable financial institutions in Nigeria as:
- Head, Capital Markets & Research, Legacy Guardian Express Bank PLC (Now Heritage Bank Limited);
- Group Head, Asset & Wealth Management Group, Future View Financial Services Limited;
- Head, Project Finance and Private Equity Funds Management, Oceanic Bank International Plc (Now a member of the Eco Bank PLC);
- Pioneer Group Head, Corporate Finance & Private Equity Funds Management, Bank PHB Plc (Now Keystone Bank Limited);
- Group Head, Capital Markets Division & Private Equity Funds Management, Bank PHB Plc (Now Keystone Bank) and
- Group Executive Director, Treasure Capital & Trusts Limited.
He is an alumnus of Abia State University, Nigeria, from where he graduated at the top of his Class and Faculty with a B. Sc. Honours Degree in Banking & Finance. He also holds postgraduate degrees and certifications from Leeds Metropolitan University, United Kingdom and Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA. Nnaemeka has participated in Key Financial Sector training of the Euro Money Training, UK.
He was a member of the four man Federal Government of Nigeria delegation to South America in 2006 on a study tour of MSME financing in South America and also the Founder/Facilitator of the International Institute of Micro-Finance and Small Business (Africa/Middle East). Nnaemeka is the Founding Executive Secretary of the Africa Education Funding and Development Support (AFREFUND).
He is a change agent passionately committed to innovations and enhancement of good corporate governance in the Africa Financial Landscape. Always willing to learn and abhors the word “Impossible”.
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Group Chairman
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