33 Facts About Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede

Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede FCIB, was born on 24 September 1966 and is a Nigerian businessman, banker, investor and philanthropist.

Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede was the former group managing director and chief executive officer of Access Bank Plc.

Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede is the founder and chairman of Coronation Group Limited and its affiliates, Coronation Asset Management Ltd and Trium Ltd.

Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede founded Africa Initiative for Governance in 2014.

Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede is the co-chairman of the United Kingdom-Nigeria Capital Market Task Force and a board member of TCX Investment Management Company Netherlands.

Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede is chairman, the board of trustees of the Financial Market Dealers Association, and immediate past chairman of Coronation Insurance Plc.

Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede was born on 24 September 1966 in Ibadan, Oyo State in Western Nigeria to parents who were in the civil service.

Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede lived with his family in Lagos but went to Federal Government College Kaduna, in Northern Nigeria.

Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede earlier attended St Saviours School in Lagos and at age 16, he enrolled to study law at University of Benin, Edo State, Nigeria.

Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede graduated with a LLB degree in 1986 at age 19 and was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1987.

Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede holds a Trium MBA, awarded jointly by the London School of Economics, New York University, and HEC Paris.

Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede began working as a lawyer with Continental Merchant Bank during his NYSC deployment in 1988.

Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede joined Guaranty Trust Bank Plc in December 1991 where he resigned as executive director in March 2002.

Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede was the leader of the 2002 acquisition of Access Bank, then a fringe regional player.

Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede was the group managing director and chief executive officer of the bank till December 2013.

Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede retired as president of the Nigerian Stock Exchange in 2017, but he remains on the National Council as an ex-officio.

Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede was a non-executive director of Africa Finance Corporation since 2008 until June 2,2017.

Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede has been the chairman of Associated Discount House Limited since 1 December 2011.

Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede serves as a director of Petralon Energy and retired as the chairman of Wapic Insurance Plc where he has been its director since November 2011.

Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede served as board chairman and director of FMDQ OTC PLC until 1 August 2014.

Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede founded Coronation Capital Limited in 2015 and has led the growth and expansion of the Coronation Ecosystem.

In October 2021, Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede collaborated with the office of the Head of Nigerian Civil Service, led by Folashade Yemi-Esan to digitalize work processes and public service delivery.

Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede was conferred with the National Honors of Commander of the Order of the Niger in 2011 by then President Goodluck Jonathan of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, for his contributions to the development of banking and finance in Nigeria.

Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede was awarded the National Productivity Order of Merit Award in 2009.

Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was appointed a member of the international advisory board of Oxford University's Blavasupportool of Government.

Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede is a fellow of the African Leadership Institute affiliated with the Aspen Institute in Colorado, USA.

Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede is honorary fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria.

Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede is the founder and chairman of the Aig-Imoukhuede Foundation, an independent non-profit that seeks to transform public service delivery and increase access to quality primary healthcare.

Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede is currently the chairman of ABCHealth, a regional non-profit established by the Aliko Dangote Foundation and GBCHealth.

Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede is a director of the Private Sector Health Alliance of Nigeria.

Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede is the vice chairman of Global Citizen Nigeria and through a partnership with the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Fund, has created the Nigerian Solidarity Support Fund.

Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede is the author of Leaving the Tarmac: Buying a Bank in Africa, a memoir that recounts how he and Herbert Wigwe bought Access Bank in 2002, one of the smallest and most crisis- prone banks in Nigeria, and built it into one of the biggest and strongest banks in the country.

Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede is married to Ofovwe Aig-Imoukhuede, and together they have four children.