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Our experience, your challenge

Every organisation has a different context. Our experience provides perspective, and our approach stays tailored to the challenge, priorities and ambitions of each client.

Experience our people bring

The following reflects the careers of our principals and Advisory Board members in their individual capacities.

  • Chaired and served on the boards of Nigerian banks, listed companies and a credit bureau.
  • Led Lagos Business School as Dean, founded its Sustainability Centre and now direct its Family Business Initiative.
  • Served as an Executive Director of a leading Nigerian bank.
  • Directed a public sector initiative and consulted for the African Development Bank Group.
  • Delivered training and advisory work for financial regulators, banks, insurers and petroleum sector regulators.
  • Led technology businesses for IBM and Microsoft and ran an information technology firm in West Africa.
  • Co-founded and leads Nigeria's first business daily newspaper.
  • Ran a finance company licensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria and led internal audit at a digital bank.

Our founder’s record

Organisations Professor Ngwu has trained or advised

Professor Franklin Ngwu, our Founder and Managing Principal, has provided training or consulting services to the organisations below in his individual capacity. Elevo Consulting was founded in 2025 to bring that experience to clients as a firm.

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Regulators and public institutions

Training and advisory work for the bodies that set the rules, and policy research for a development finance institution.

  • Central Bank of Nigeria
  • Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission
  • Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority
  • African Development Bank Group (Senior Policy and Research Consultant)
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Banking, capital markets, pensions and insurance

Work with banks, exchanges, asset managers, pension managers and insurers.

  • First Bank of Nigeria
  • Guaranty Trust Bank
  • United Bank for Africa
  • Zenith Bank
  • Stanbic IBTC
  • Sterling Bank
  • Nigerian Stock Exchange
  • Coronation Group
  • Asset & Resource Management Holding Company (ARM)
  • AXA Mansard
  • African Reinsurance Corporation
  • Fidelity Pension Managers
  • Premium Pension
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Industry, technology and professional services

Work with manufacturers, consumer businesses, telecommunications, payments companies and a law firm.

  • Dangote Group
  • Nigerian Breweries Plc
  • FrieslandCampina WAMCO Nigeria Plc
  • Airtel Nigeria
  • Paystack
  • Electronic Payplus
  • Mouka Foam
  • Coscharis Group
  • Banwo & Ighodalo

Senior roles

Positions our people have held

  • Professor Franklin Ngwu

    Co-chair, Private Sector Advisory Group Board on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

    Independent Non-executive Director, Caritas Nigeria

    Former Independent Non-executive Director, Access Pension Fund Custodian

    Director, Lagos Business School Public Sector Initiative

  • Jessica C. Ugwuoke

    Principal and Chief Operating Officer, Elevo Consulting

    Former Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Newedge Finance Limited

    Former Head of Internal Audit, FairMoney Microfinance Bank

    Former Head of Internal Audit, Control and Compliance, CS Advance

    Former Internal Audit Associate, Renmoney Microfinance Bank

  • Professor Chris Ogbechie

    Former Chairman, Diamond Bank Plc

    Director, Red Star Express Plc

    Director, National Salt Company of Nigeria Plc

    Former Dean, Lagos Business School

  • Dr Okey Nwuke

    Non-Executive Director, Access Bank Plc

    Former Executive Director, Corporate and Investment Banking, Access Bank Plc

    Chairman, ActivEdge Technologies Limited

    Director, Family Business Initiative, Lagos Business School

  • Mrs Fatumata Soukouna Coker

    Former Chairman, Afrinvest Securities Limited

    Former Chairman, CreditRegistry Services

    Non-Executive Director, NASD Plc

    Former Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Soft Solutions Limited

  • Mr Frank Aigbogun

    Publisher and Chief Executive Officer, BusinessDay Media

    Chairman, Impact Investors Foundation

    Former Director, Nigerian Economic Summit Group

    Former Editor, Vanguard

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