WHO’S WHO IN CORPORATE NIGERIA: YEMI OSINDERO – ANOTHER ENGINEER-TURNED-FINANCE-GURU
WHO’S WHO IN CORPORATE NIGERIA
YEMI OSINDERO
CURRENT POSITION: Managing Director, Private Equity West Africa (Standard Chartered Bank)
PAST POSITIONS: Chief Operating Officer, Virgin Nigeria; Investment Manager, Virgin Management Limited; Associate, Hawkings Partners Limited; Analyst, Goldman Sachs; Facilities Engineer, ExxonMobil
EXPERTISE: Investment Banking, Corporate Development, Mergers and Acquisition, Corporate Finance
NIGERIAN EDUCATION: University of Lagos
FOREIGN EDUCATION: BEng Chemical & Process Engineering (University of Bath, UK), First Class; PhD Improved Oil Recovery (University of Bath, UK)
JARUSHUB ONE-LINE DESCRIPTION: The silent executive
JARUSHUB REMARKS
Did anyone notice there is no MEng between his BEng and Phd degrees? Yes, when you do so well in your first degree, you get PhD admission direct in some top foreign schools. Not aware this is done in Nigeria though.
Another Engineer – Chemical Engineer – that turned out to be a top investment banker.
He was nominated by THISDAY newspapers as Nigeria’s Young Manager of the Year 2006.
Yet another Goldman Sachs-trained Investment Banker
Started his career as an engineer with ExxonMobil.
Now, Jarus, how did this happen? The man here has no finance education, not even MBA, not any professional qualification like ACCA or ICAN. Again, started the career path as an Engineer, and suddenly turned Finance man without any conversion training? Is this really possible or there are some career building steps taken by him that are not covered in your description.
Yes, it is possible. It is called hands-on experience. You can see he moved from ExxonMobil to Goldman Sachs. To get analyst level position in Goldman Sachs, any degree, not least engineering, is ok. The same with PwC and co that don’t care about your course of study.
So he had his finance/investment banking training in Goldman Sachs, not in a school. Experience in such institutions trumps MBA and other finance qualifications.
Oooh, I see. Thanks… Still expecting your response on the inquiry sent to you.
Are you referring to this?
https://www.jarushub.com/do-law-graduates-of-national-open-university-of-nigeria-noun-get-admitted-into-nigeria-law-school/
Yemi got his first degree in Chemical Engineering from UNILAG. Nice to see Yemo, an old school mate doing great things.
At Semiu, Yemi is not the average intelligent guy. He is from a very comfortable upper middle class family, he has the right education right from nursery, primary, secondary to University, good network, super connection, intelligence, right exposure and influential background.
\Did anyone notice there is no MEng between his BEng and Phd degrees? Yes, when you do so well in your first degree, you get PhD admission direct in some top foreign schools. Not aware this is done in Nigeria though.’
It is possible, another very brilliant and party-loving class mate of Yemi at the department of Chemical Engineering in person of Malcolm Fabiyi did his Phd in Chemical Engineering immediately after graduating with first class from UNILAG. Malcolm recently did an MBA in marketing at University of Chicago business school, he is now a visiting Professor of Marketing at Lagos Business School.
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Please i need your advice Mr. Jarus.
I am a Computer Science graduate from one Nigeria University, I did my NYSC in 2013 and presently working with a travel agent company here in Abuja, but I have this thought of studying accounting right from my University days, Now am thinking of pursing an ICAN certficate but my problem is how will it blend with Bsc in computer Science that i had in university and again will it give a chance of securing a nice job. Pls advice if there is anything i can do that will be better than this.
Thanks
We have answered this:
https://www.jarushub.com/how-do-i-blend-computer-science-with-accounting/
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