Mr. Ladi Balogun holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of East Anglia, United Kingdom and an MBA from Harvard Business School, United States of America. He has over 20 years’ experience in commercial and investment banking in Europe, the United States of America and Africa.  

He began his Banking career in 1993 at Morgan Grenfell & Co Limited, where he worked in the areas of risk management and corporate finance (debt origination). He was responsible for managing the Bank’s trading and investment positions in debt instruments in Latin America and Eastern Europe and was part of a team that structured numerous complex debt deals in Latin America, Eastern Europe and the Asian sub-continent. Subsequently, he worked at Citibank in New York before returning to Nigeria as an Executive Assistant to the Chairman and Chief Executive in 1996.  

He has worked in various areas of the Bank including Treasury, Corporate Banking and Investment Banking. He was appointed Executive Director in charge of the Institutional Banking Group (IBG) in 1997. In 2000, he was made Executive Director in charge of Strategy and Business Development and in 2001, he rose to the position of the Bank’s Deputy Managing Director and was subsequently appointed Managing Director of First City Monument Bank Plc (now First City Monument Bank Limited). 

Mr. Ladi Balogun became the Group Chief Executive of FCMB Group Plc effective March 14, 2017