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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 & Administration
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 InfraCredit. Prior to this, he was the project lead for the establishment of a Nigeria Infrastructure Credit Enhancement Facility, where he assisted GuarantCo and the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority to establish InfraCredit as its first employee. He holds an MSc. in Finance & Financial Law from University of London and studied law at the University of Lagos, Nigeria.
Chinua Azubike has garnered over 16 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 Nigeria. He was the Managing Director of a corporate finance advisory firm, based in Lagos, Nigeria and prior to this worked in a top-tier domestic investment banking firm.
Chinua Azubike is currently the chairperson of the Regulation Consolidation Sub-Committee of FMDQ Debt Capital Market Development Project. Chinua is a protagonist of Harvard Business School’s Case Study on “Infrastructure in Nigeria: Unlocking Pension Fund Investments” published in February 2018 and is being taught on HBS’s MBA Program.
Daniel Mueller Chief Operating Officer
Daniel Mueller is a corporate finance professional with over 20 years’ experience in providing financial advisory services, across various sectors in Nigeria and internationally. Since 2011, he has been the Managing Director at Global Emerging Markets, where he provides transaction and corporate finance advisory for infrastructure & power sector projects in Nigeria. He is the Head of Origination and Structuring at InfraCredit. Daniel was a Senior Manager in the Financial Advisory unit of Deloitte Nigeria and as an Investment Banking Analyst at JPMorganChase & Co. Daniel holds a BSc. in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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 InfraCredit, he was a Manager in the Business Process as a Service (BPaaS) function at Deloitte & Touché Nigeria. 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 Nigeria.
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 InfraCredit, he was Senior credit analyst-corporate credits at Union Bank of Nigeria 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 Nigeria, Credit Risk Documentation Officer at Citigroup Nigeria, and as the Remedial Manager (Asset Based finance) at Citigroup Nigeria. He holds a BSc. in Biochemistry and an MSc. in International Business & Emerging Markets.
Lola Oyebola Head, Human Resources & Administration
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 Nigeria and Sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to joining InfraCredit, 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; Nigeria, 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 Nigeria. 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 Nigeria.
Before joining InfraCredit, 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 Nigeria. Chido has a keen interest in deepening the Nigerian Debt Capital Market and collaborating with international development finance institutions.
Shadrach Iguh General Counsel
Shadrach is InfraCredit’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 InfraCredit’s Origination & Structuring Unit from 2020 to 2022.
Before joining InfraCredit, Shadrach was a visiting associate at Templars (a leading Nigerian 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, Nigeria.
Shadrach is qualified as a Barrister and Solicitor in Nigeria. 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, Nigeria.
