Onyebuchim Obiyemi 2022 speaker

Senior Vice President, Investment Banking

CardinalStone Partners Limited

Biography

Onyebuchim Obiyemi is currently a Senior Vice President at CardinalStone Partners Limited and leads the Investment Banking Division. She has over 10 years hands on investment banking experience spanning various sectors including Financial services, FMCG, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Oil & Gas and Public sector. Her entire investment banking experience spans Afrinvest West Africa Limited and then CardinalStone. She also had a stint at the Operations & Technology team at Citibank Nigeria where she commenced her professional career.

Onyebuchim Obiyemi has experience and has built competence in originating and leading execution of Mergers & Acquisitions, Valuation Advisory as well as Debt and Equity Capital Market transactions with various levels of complexity. She is very result oriented and demonstrates in depth analytical and strategic ability coupled with varied experience and insights gained from leading, managing and hands on approach in providing practical advisory and financing solutions to clients. She has learnt to be largely entrepreneurial in approaching potential engagements having worked in boutique investment banking firms which require professionals to proffer and demonstrate top notch value proposition to compete favourably with top tier competitors.

Onyebuchim Obiyemi’s key strengths are her leadership capabilities and ability to drive her team to deliver on client engagements and revenue targets as well as very skillful at managing client relationships to build trust. Other core skills she has developed over the years include people management, emotional intelligence and stakeholder engagements given her experience of largely working with C level executives.

Onyebuchim Obiyemi holds a Masters in Investment and Finance from Middlesex University, London and a B.Sc. Accounting from the University of Lagos. She is also an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria and an alumnus of the Lagos Business School where she completed the Senior Management Programme (SMP).

Onyebuchim Obiyemi enjoys teaching and imparting knowledge as well as supporting growth of small and medium scale businesses. Outside work, she is the Deputy HOD of Covenant Capital which is the business advisory, financial empowerment and career management arm of Covenant Christian Centre. She is married with two sons, Oluwatomisin and Oluwaseyifunmi.