Experience

In a career that spans 25 years of international and cross-sector experience, Adeyemi 
Adefarakan is a seasoned C-suite executive with strong global investment banking, 
portfolio risk, asset and financial management exposure.
He graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Economics & Accountancy from the prestigious 
City University, London, U.K., and holds a Master’s degree in International Securities, 
Investment & Banking from the acclaimed ICMA Centre at the University of Reading, 
U.K.
He is also an alumnus of both the Emerging CFO: Strategic Financial Leadership 
Programme at Stanford Graduate School of Business (USA), and Global CEO Africa 
Programme in the triumvirate of business schools comprising Lagos Business School 
(Nigeria), Strathmore Business School (Nairobi, Kenya) and Yale School of 
Management (Connecticut, USA). Adeyemi, a consummate lifelong learner, in recent 
years, undertook various programmes at IMD (Switzerland), The University of Chicago 
Booth School of Business (Hong Kong) and Columbia Business School (USA), which 
have helped him stay relevant and at the cutting edge of high finance, technological 
innovations and corporate governance. 
Adeyemi forged his career on the trading floors of some of London’s financial 
powerhouses including State Street Global Markets, DRW Investments, JP Morgan 
Chase, Deutsche Bank and HSBC Global Asset Management. In his years in London, 
he traded both vanilla and complex instruments and risk-managed multi-billion-dollar 
multi-asset portfolios.
He currently serves as the Executive Vice Chairman on the board of TVC 
Communications, while he equally sits as a Non-Executive Director of the Board and 
Chairman of the Board Risk Management Committee of Wema Bank Plc, alongside 
other board positions where he creates and extracts shareholder value through active 
board engagement.
Adeyemi became a director of the Lasaco Assurance Plc in August 2025