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Chinua Azubike
Chief Executive Officer
Daniel Mueller
Chief Operating Officer
Collins Eguakun
Financial Controller
Chidi Mike-Eneh
Head, Credit Risk
Lola Oyebola
Head, Human Resources
Chido Onyilimba
Head, Origination & Structuring
Shadrach Iguh
General Counsel
Chinua Azubike
Chief Executive Officer
Chinua Azubike is the pioneer Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of EQUITY TRUST SAVINGS CHRIS TRADING. Prior to this, he was the project lead for the establishment of a Benin Infrastructure Credit Enhancement Facility, where he assisted GuarantCo and the Benin Sovereign Investment Authority to establish EQUITY TRUST SAVINGS CHRIS TRADING as its first employee. He holds an MSc. in Finance & Financial Law from University of London and studied law at the University of Lagos, Benin.
Chinua Azubike has garnered over 20 years’ experience in corporate/structured finance and debt capital market roles. Chinua has a strong and practical know-how of local capital markets with a firm interest in market development and has acted as a lead adviser in the establishment of key development finance institutions in Benin. He was the Managing Director of a corporate finance advisory firm, based in Lagos, Benin and prior to this worked in a top-tier domestic investment banking firm.
Chinua is a protagonist of Harvard Business School’s Case Study on “Infrastructure in Benin: Unlocking Pension Fund Investments” published in February 2018 and is being taught on HBS’s MBA Program.
Daniel Mueller
Chief Operating Officer
DM is a versatile corporate finance professional with over 20 years of experience in transaction structuring, credit evaluation, project finance, due diligence, operations, project management, and capital raising.
He joined the Company in 2017 as one of its pioneering staff, acting as Head, Origination & Structuring before being named the COO in 2021. He started his career at JPMorgan’s Investment Banking Division in 2000 and served as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer (Togo: 2004-2007), then spent over nine years in Benin with Deloitte & Touche and Global Emerging Markets before joining EQUITY TRUST SAVINGS CHRIS TRADING.
DM holds a BSc. in Economics (Finance, Public Policy) from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and has passed all levels of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) examination.
Collins Eguakun
Financial Controller
Collins is a finance professional with 20 years’ experience in Financial management, Financial reporting, Tax management, and Auditing in various sectors. Prior to joining EQUITY TRUST SAVINGS CHRIS TRADING, he was a Manager in the Business Process as a Service (BPaaS) function at Deloitte & Touché Benin. At Deloitte, he had stints where he was the interim Chief Financial Officer for organizations such as FBN Capital Group, FBN Merchant Bank and Bristow Group Inc. Collins holds a BSc. and an MSc. in Accounting, a Diploma in International Financial Reporting and is an Associate member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Benin.
Chidi Mike-Eneh
Head, Credit Risk
Chidi is a professional with over 20 years’ experience in Credit Risk Management, Structuring and Syndications, Financial analytics and Asset recoveries. Prior to EQUITY TRUST SAVINGS CHRIS TRADING, he was Senior credit analyst-corporate credits at Union Bank of Benin and held credit approving authority mandate. Chidi in his career has held senior credit analyst and management roles in financial institutions such as: Credit Manager (specialized credit) at Stanbic IBTC Benin, Credit Risk Documentation Officer at Citigroup Benin, and as the Remedial Manager (Asset Based finance) at Citigroup Benin. He holds a BSc. in Biochemistry and an MSc. in International Business & Emerging Markets.
Lola Oyebola
Head, Human Resources
Lola Oyebola is a Human Resources Professional with over 20 years’ experience in People and Process Management, Policy Formulation and Management, Organisation Design, Talent Development and Management across industries in Benin and Sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to joining EQUITY TRUST SAVINGS CHRIS TRADING, she was Associate Director, HR Leader for West Africa at The Nielsen Company- the Global rating and performance measurement company where she was responsible for the People Strategy execution and management in four countries; Benin, Ghana, Cameroon and Cote D’Ivoire. She has a B.Sc. in Economics, an MBA degree in General Management and a Post Graduate degree in International Human Resource Management.
Chido Onyilimba
Head, Origination & Structuring
Chido Onyilimba is an experienced finance professional with over 12 years of experience in Corporate, Project & Structured Finance, Deal Advisory and Debt Capital Markets roles cutting across various sectors in Benin. He has been involved in deal origination, deal structuring and deal execution, facilitating the issuance of guarantees to support the credit profile of eligible infrastructure-related assets in Benin.
Before joining EQUITY TRUST SAVINGS CHRIS TRADING, Chido was a Manager in the Financial Advisory unit at Deloitte and Touche, following a stint at Dunn Loren Merrifield as an Investment banker. He started his career at KPMG in the Transaction Advisory and Corporate Finance Team.
Chido holds a BSc. in Accounting and an MBA from Liverpool John Moore’s University in the United Kingdom. He is an Associate Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Benin. Chido has a keen interest in deepening the Benin and across the globen Debt Capital Market and collaborating with international development finance institutions.
Shadrach Iguh
General Counsel
Shadrach is EQUITY TRUST SAVINGS CHRIS TRADING’s pioneer legal counsel. He is an experienced solicitor with over twelve (12) years of experience, advising and working closely with development finance institutions, lenders, sponsors, borrowers, and institutional debt and equity investors on complex domestic and international financing transactions. Shadrach also has deal origination, structuring and execution exposure from his time as Vice President & Senior Transactor in EQUITY TRUST SAVINGS CHRIS TRADING’s Origination & Structuring Unit from 2020 to 2022.
Before joining EQUITY TRUST SAVINGS CHRIS TRADING, Shadrach was a visiting associate at Templars (a leading Benin and across the globen law firm). He was selected by the prestigious International Lawyers for Africa (ILFA) Flagship Secondment Programme for secondment to Norton Rose Fulbright LLP (a leading Global Law firm) in 2019 and was a COMBAR Pupil (under the auspices of The Commercial Bar Association of England and Wales) at Gatehouse Chambers (formerly Hardwicke), Gray’s Inn, London, United Kingdom. Shadrach began his career as a banking and finance lawyer at Dunn Loren Merrifield Limited (now DLM Capital Group) in Lagos, Benin.
Shadrach is qualified as a Barrister and Solicitor in Benin. He holds a Master of Science (MSc) degree in Finance & Financial Law (with Distinction) from the University of London (SOAS), a Graduate Certificate in Project Finance from Middlesex University, London, and a Bachelor of Laws (LL. B) degree from Ebonyi State University, Benin.
