Our team

As General Manager Finance at Helios Towers Nigeria Limited (HTN), Femi was a lead player in the company’s syndicated $250m debt financing through IFC. He was also the lead player in a $200m debt and equity financing through three major Nigerian banks in 2007.
Prior to joining HTN, Femi was a Senior Associate at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Whilst at PwC, in addition to managing statutory audits of medium to large sized group companies with turnovers between N5 billion and N20 billion, he also led an experienced team in a due diligence exercise of a French Group of companies.

Prior to coming to Nigeria in April 2006 to join PwC, Femi was Practice Senior at Wilson Wright & Co (WW) Chartered Accountants and registered auditors in London for over 4 years. At WW he was a key member of the Business Services Unit; an outsourcing function where he performed financial control, human resources, executive training and management accounting services for international clients with headquarters outside the UK.

Femi also worked at Greenback Alan and Howard Wade and Jacob, both medium-sized chartered accountancy firms in the City of London, where he trained and established his accounting skills.

Education & Certificates

B.A. (Hons), Accounting and Finance
Middlesex University Business School, Hendon, London.

Fellow Member
Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN)

Fellow, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants of Nigeria (ACCA)

Wale was Chief Financial officer of Rosaab International, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for Petrolex Oil and Gas and Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Jackpotbet Nigeria.

As Head Corporate Finance and Planning at Helios Towers Nigeria Limited (HTN), Wale was a lead player in the company’s syndicated $250m debt financing through IFC.

Prior to joining HTN, Wale was Head Business Intelligence at Starcomms Plc. Wale worked briefly as a Principal Investment Officer with Nova Capital (A New York based investment company).

Wale is an Accountant by training, a Graduate of Investment banking Institute , London and a Six-Sigma Green Belter. He is also an Associate of the Business Process Council, Canada.

Education & Certificates
Associate Member, Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.
Certified Performance Management Professional.
Associate Member, Investment Banking Institute. London.

He worked with customers such as Nationwide Building Society UK, British Petroleum (BP), HSBC Group, Centrica UK, Vodafone, Zenith Bank, Ecobank, GT Bank and Development Bank of Nigeria.
Having being relocated by SAP to Africa in 2014, he has led SAP project teams, as a Sponsor on projects within Nigeria and across Africa ( a 33 country SAP solution roll out)

Education & Certificates
Post Graduate, Management -Warwick Business School, UK
Fellow- Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, UK & I
Bsc. Hons Economics-University of Ibadan
SAP Leornado Certified Professional

In a prior role as Head of Controlling for SAP UK he was responsible for managing a Euro 1.2bn P&L with 2,000+ FTE across the UK & Ireland

Olu started his career with Arthur Andersen (now KPMG) as a tax consultant and prior to joining SAP he had also worked at The Royal Opera House UK, Veolia Services UK and SONY Music.