OUR PEOPLE
Meet the Board of Trustees guiding the foundation’s commitment to community development.
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A professional banker with over 30 years cognate experience. She served in various management functions and was until 2020, the Deputy Country Representative of Deutsche Bank (a world-acclaimed Bank) in Nigeria. As a notable political player and actor, she is passionate about community development which influenced her decision to set up the AACCF.
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An astute banker with several years of experience, Otunba Bello was between 2003 and 2011, the Ogun State Commissioner for Finance. He is an exemplary community leader with track record of excellence in managing people.
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An experienced Financial Services Executive/Consultant with demonstrated practical knowledge of the financial services value chain. She holds 30 years of experience in strategic leadership, wholesale and retail banking, wealth and fiduciary management, treasury marketing and asset management. An astute board member, she also currently sits on the boards of social impact organizations affording her the opportunity to further deliver on her interest in female development.
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A Barrister -at-Law and a globally-acclaimed movie and theatre arts financier and producer. She is also the founder and Managing Director of Terra Kulture, an arts and cultural event centre located in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital. She has featured in three consecutive times in Forbes Afrique as one of the most influential women in Africa. Also described by world Cable News Network (CNN) as the “woman pioneering theatre in Nigeria”. Bolanle loves impacting her immediate communities; indeed the nation, through various charity programmes she has initiated over time.
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She is the founder and Director of Community Life Project (CLP), a non-governmental organization that promotes participatory and holistic grassroots development. A vocal champion for the emancipation of women from poverty to economic prosperity, she is inspired by the success of past struggles for women’s rights, class and racial justice such as the struggle for universal adult suffrage, majority rule in South Africa and access to land by Cuban peasants.
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Joel Ogunsola worked at Microsoft where he led the Education Technology Advisory team in Nigeria. He also co-founded and leads partnerships and sustainability across a number of impact initiatives. A graduate of mechanical engineering, he currently also serves as a partner and co-founder at Isisae Consulting, a Pan-African sustainability Advisory and impact investment consultant ingredients company. Joel is passionate about innovation, social entrepreneurship, arts and loves to play golf.