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Chris Oshiafi is the Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of PanAfrican Capital Holdings with experience that spans over two decades in Structured Finance, Consulting, Investment Banking and Venture Capital/Private Equity. As the Group Managing Director, Chris has significantly grown the group and expanded its operations in line with its Pan African mission.
Prior to his appointment as the pioneer Chief Executive Officer of PAC Holdings, Chris was an Executive Director (Investment Banking) at Citizens International Bank, now known as Heritage Bank. He was the Pioneer Managing Director/CEO of Truebond Investments & Capital Limited, a Company with diverse interests in Oil & Gas, Telecommunications, Power and the Capital Markets. He also served as a Managing Partner with Damitop Consulting Limited where he worked on a number of World Bank projects for the Federal and several State Governments.
Chris holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting & Finance from the University of London and an MBA from the University of Lagos. He is an alumnus of the prestigious Columbia Business School, New York, United States and INSEAD Business School, Fontainebleau, France, the IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain, the Chief Executive Programme (CEP 17) Class of the Lagos Business School, and Harvard Business School Executive Education Programme.
He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute of London, (ACII) UK and Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (ACIT). He currently serves on various boards including the Advisory Board of the Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council.
Sina is the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of PanAfrican Capital Holdings, a Proprietary Investment Company with presence in Lagos, Accra, Nairobi and Mauritius. He also serves as a member of the Board of Directors for several companies within the Group. Acquiring a Chartered Accountant status in 1991, his career spans over twenty-five (25) cutting across Deal Structuring, Project Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Privatization and Asset Management.
Having worked with Diamond Bank Limited where he started his banking career in Audit and Banking Operations, Sina later joined the Investment Banking Division of Fountain Trust Bank Plc in 1997 and subsequently served as Group Head, Corporate Finance and Head, Investment Banking Group. While in Corporate Finance, Sina was actively involved in high profile projects and advisory mandates in the private sector as well as the privatization Programme of the Federal Government of Nigeria.
He is an alumnus of Lagos Business School (LBS) and IESE Business School Barcelona Spain is also a graduate of accounting from the prestigious University of Lagos, where he graduated as one of the best in his class. Sina is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) and Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN).
Eric Okoruwa is the Group Executive Director of PanAfrican Capital Holdings with over 20 years’ experience in investment banking and financial advisory.
Eric has been involved in various high-profile transactions, raising over $5 billion and N300 billion from both foreign and local financial institution and capital markets across diverse sectors. While at Fountain Trust bank Plc, he worked on a number of high-profile private sector advisory transactions as well as the Federal Government privatization program of the Federal Government of Nigeria.
He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration from the University of Lagos and a master’s degree in marketing from the University of Lagos. He has attended severalExecutive courses, Advanced Manager’sProgramme (AMP) from the Lagos Business School, “Leading Organizational Change” – Whatrton University of Pennsylvania and the Lagos Business School Global Chief Executive Officer (GCEO) programme for Africa in conjunction with Strathmore University Business School and IESE Business School Navarra, New York.
He also attended various international and local courses on company Valuation and Issues Pricing, Factoring, Mergers & Acquisitions, Bonds & Derivatives, Asset Backed Securities, Structured Finance and International Trade Finance.
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