Leadership

Advice from people who have held the responsibility. Elevo is led by two principals and guided by an Advisory Board whose experience spans boardrooms, banking, technology, media, business schools and public policy.

Principals

The people who lead Elevo

Professor Franklin Nnaemeka Ngwu

Founder and Managing Principal

Professor of Strategic Management and Governance at Lagos Business School and Director of its Public Sector Initiative.

An economist and Chartered Risk Manager with over 20 years in advisory, policy research and teaching across Africa and the United Kingdom. Formerly Senior Policy and Research Consultant at the African Development Bank Group, with earlier experience at Barclays Bank UK.

PhD, University of Manchester.

Strategy
Risk
Governance
Public Policy

Jessica C. Ugwuoke

Principal and Chief Operating Officer

Principal and Chief Operating Officer of Elevo Consulting, where she leads the firm's operations and engagement delivery. A fintech executive with deep experience in consumer credit, buy now, pay later and device financing in Nigeria and emerging markets.

She previously led Newedge Finance Limited, a finance company licensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria, as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer for four years. Her 13-year career also spans internal audit, control and compliance leadership at Renmoney, CS Advance and FairMoney.

She advises boards on governance, enterprise risk, internal control and regulatory readiness, and works with founders and growth companies on strategy and its implementation.

She uses artificial intelligence to build working tools for leadership teams: execution dashboards that improve operational efficiency, compliance and risk dashboards that track regulatory and policy obligations, and working prototypes that show a strategy in action before money is committed, so everyone agrees on what is intended.

MBA with distinction, Nexford University. Master's in Public and International Affairs, University of Lagos.

Governance
Risk
Regulatory Compliance
Consumer Credit
Artificial Intelligence Adoption

Advisory Board

Counsel from leaders across sectors

Our Advisory Board brings independent perspective and senior experience to the firm’s direction and to the challenges our clients face.

Professor Chris Ogbechie

Member, Advisory Board

Professor of Strategic Management at Lagos Business School, where he served as Dean from 2021 to 2024 and founded the Sustainability Centre.

Former Chairman of Diamond Bank Plc and a director of Red Star Express Plc and NASCON. Previously Head of Marketing and Sales at Nestlé Nigeria, with postings in Malaysia, Singapore and Switzerland.

PhD, Brunel Business School.

Strategy
Governance
Sustainability

Dr Okey Nwuke

Member, Advisory Board

A corporate governance and financial strategy leader with more than 22 years in commercial banking at Guaranty Trust Bank and Access Bank, where he served as Executive Director, Corporate and Investment Banking from 2004 to 2013.

He is a Non-Executive Director of Access Bank Plc, where he chairs the Board Technical Committee on Retail Expansion and is Vice-Chairman of the Board Credit Committee. He chairs ActivEdge Technologies, chairs the Audit Committee of Access Pensions, sits on the boards of three Coscharis Group companies and chairs the Shareholders' Audit Committee of NASCON Plc.

Director of the Family Business Initiative at Lagos Business School and a member of its Management Board. Chartered Director of the Institute of Directors, London, and Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria and the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria. Doctor of Business Administration, Walden University; Master of Business Administration with distinction, Birmingham Business School.

Governance
Banking
Risk
Family Business

Mrs Fatumata Soukouna Coker

Member, Advisory Board

A technology executive with more than 20 years with global technology companies across the United States, Africa, India and the Middle East. She spent about ten years at IBM in the United States, including leading worldwide go-to-market strategy for its service-oriented architecture business, and led partner strategy for Microsoft across West, Central and East Africa.

As Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Soft Solutions Limited from 2010, she built it into a leading information technology solutions provider in Nigeria and West Africa, with a focus on the financial sector.

She has chaired Afrinvest Securities Limited and CreditRegistry Services, and serves on the boards of NASD Plc and Bloom Bank Africa Liberia. She is the founder of YGroup Holdings, a West African payments and settlement integration company. In 2022 the Institute of Directors Nigeria named her Olutoyin Olakunri Woman Director of the Year.

Technology
Digital Transformation
Payments
Governance

Mr Frank Aigbogun

Member, Advisory Board

Publisher and Chief Executive Officer of BusinessDay Media, which he co-founded in 2001 as Nigeria's first business daily newspaper.

He began his career in 1982 as a pioneer reporter at The Guardian, served as Lagos correspondent of the Associated Press, and rose to Editor of Vanguard. He served on the Vision 2010 Committee, has been a director of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group and a board member of Nigeria's National Competitiveness Council, and chairs the Impact Investors Foundation.

Fellow of the Nigerian Guild of Editors and recipient of the 2024 Diamond Awards for Media Excellence Lifetime Achievement Award. He studied Mass Communication at the Institute of Management and Technology, Enugu, and is an alumnus of Lagos Business School.

Media
Economic Policy
Governance

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