Joseph Omayuku
Joseph Omayuku is the Managing Partner and has direct responsibility for the Ethics and Governance Unit of the firm. Before assuming this role, he had worked in diverse segments of the economy, including advertising and marketing communications, audit, and the financial services industry where he served for 26 years and rose to become a Director in the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). He was the inaugural head of the Economic Intelligence Unit of CBN and led the team that provided the investigative breakthrough that enabled the Federal Government of Nigeria to secure a right of appeal against the judgement debt of $11 billion awarded by a UK Court in favour of Process & Industrial Developments Limited (P&ID).
Under his leadership, the Bank’s Code of Ethics was revised in 2023, after twenty years of implementation. He also supervised the preparation of the Conflict of Interest and Whistle-blowing policies of the Bank for approval in 2022 and 2023, respectively.
He was deployed to head the Financial System Strategy Secretariat in October 2023, in which capacity he led the process of formulating a new strategy for the Nigerian financial services industry, championed efforts to unlock capital for small and medium-sized enterprises and collaborated with industry stakeholders to upscale Factoring in the Nigerian financial markets. He also represented CBN on the Board of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
Joseph was engaged in commercial banking before joining the CBN in 2003. In the course of his commercial banking service, he worked in the operations, accounting, internal control and audit units of the industry wherein he investigated a number of fraud cases and thwarted several fraud attempts, including a foreign exchange fraud of $100 million. He has served as a resource person in training programs organized by the CBN and Nigeria’s Financial Institutions Training Centre and has coached several bankers on banking operations, accounting, internal controls, audit and compliance.
Joseph graduated from accounting school in 1991 and subsequently obtained a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Ibadan and a Master of Business Administration from Bangor University, Wales, United Kingdom (UK). He is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria and Compliance Institute of Nigeria, a member of the Chartered Banker Institute of Scotland and the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria, a counter fraud specialist accredited by the UK Counter Fraud Professional Accreditation Board in conjunction with Northumbria University, UK, and a fraud examiner certified by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. He has attended several technical and leadership training programs, including the Leadership in Crises training at Harvard Kennedy School, Boston; Loan Analysis School of the FDIC University, Arlington; Big Data and Data Analytics course of Euro Training and Excellence in Customer Service training of Meirc Training and Consulting. He is currently a graduate student of Economics at Johns Hopkins University.
Wole Omosuyi
Wole Omosuyi is a Senior Partner and leads the fraud analytics and investigation unit of the firm. He brings to the team a combination of unique skills and competencies developed through a rewarding career at the Central Bank of Nigeria, spanning over 20 years. He was the Team Lead and Lead Investigator in the Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU) of the Bank, where he accomplished resounding successes in critical assignments with significant impacts in the Nigerian Financial System.
Wole obtained his first and second degrees in Accounting and Finance, from the University of Ilorin and the University of Lagos, respectively.
He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria and a Counter Fraud Specialist, accredited by the Counter Fraud Professional Accreditation Board of the United Kingdom. He is also a Fellow of the Association of Enterprise Risk Management Professionals and the Institute of Management Consultants. He is also an alumnus of the International Housing Finance Program at Wharton, University of Pennsylvania, United States.
Before joining EIU, Wole was a prize-winning Bank Examiner with specific value adding responsibilities in special examinations and bank investigation. He coordinated reforms in the mortgage banking/housing finance subsector in Nigeria between 2004 and 2018. In 2020, while in EIU, he was a member of the team that provided the investigative breakthrough that enabled the Federal Republic of Nigeria to secure a right of appeal against the judgement debt of $11 billion awarded by a UK Court in favour of Process & Industrial Developments Limited (P&ID).
Wole is a proponent of the participative leadership style with emphasis on performance and team cohesion, and has, Wole has over twenty-five years’ experience in financial control, operations, compliance, risk management, audit and investigation in the private and public sectors, of which, fifteen years were at the leadership level.
He also had stints as the Administrator, Governors’ Department and Head of Currency, Ibadan Branch of the Central Bank of Nigeria. He is on the board of Coop Mortgage Bank Limited, Kolomoni Microfinance Bank Limited and Ercas Integrated Solutions Limited, a fintech company.
Chukwudi Ani
Chukwudi Ani is a Senior Partner at Setivel Counter-Fraud Services and leads the IT Security & Cybersecurity workstream.
He is an accomplished IT Executive with over two decades of experience delivering mission-critical enterprise and industry solutions at the Central Bank of Nigeria, where he retired as an Assistant Director in charge of the banking industry Shared Services programme. He has specialized competencies in IT network security operations, IT audits and project management.
Chukwudi holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical and Electronics from Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT) and a Master of Business Administration from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. He is a member of the Nigerian Institute of Management and a board member of the Henritta Nwabuisi Nnadi Mathematics Foundation (HN2MF) where he leverages his strategic leadership, technological expertise, and commitment to effective governance to drive long-term organizational sustainability, promoting ethical best practices and maximizing positive community impact..