About us
Your strategic partner, co-creating solutions focused on growing your success
120+
Years of combined leadership experience across Big 4 firms, banking, energy and investment
Who we are
Flowpond Concepts Limited is a Nigerian multidisciplinary management consulting firm, established in 2024 and dedicated to driving sustainable growth and operational excellence for organisations across Nigeria.
We combine deep local market understanding with a global perspective. Our client-centric approach identifies the challenges unique to each organisation and crafts tailored solutions that deliver tangible results.
Since inception we have built a track record across public-sector training, financial-institution advisory and development finance, as a boutique alternative to larger incumbent firms.
Vision and mission
Our vision: To be a trusted partner for sustainable growth, governance and transformation in Nigeria.
Our mission: We help clients grow sustainably and operate at their best.
Our values
Integrity
Ethical and trustworthy in every engagement.
Innovation
Unique, tailored solutions over templates.
Collaboration
Co-creation with all stakeholders.
Excellence
Exceptional client service, consistently.
Why Flowpond Concepts
Deep market, industry and technical expertise
Over 120 years of combined management consulting experience and more than 30 years of hands-on industry management, deployed to advance your core interests.
Big 4 and banking pedigree
Two directors are former PricewaterhouseCoopers West Africa senior staff and two are former bankers. Between them they have led at SPDC, IFC / World Bank, Sterling Bank and BGL Plc.
Consultants who have sat on your side of the table
Our people have moved organisations from market presence to market leadership, as key decision makers first and advisers second.
Relationships that matter
Established relationships with the stakeholders in your industry, including bank chief executives, regulators and senior public-sector decision makers.
Our Integrated Transformation Framework
- 01
Discover and align
Context immersion, a strategic diagnostic and goal alignment across the leadership team, shaped by your culture and ambition.
- 02
Design and architect
Co-created strategy and a custom solution architecture, designed around your constraints.
- 03
Deliver and activate
Agile execution, capability building and change leadership, working side by side with your team.
- 04
Drive and assure
Outcome validation and impact measurement, with sustainability built in so results endure and scale.
Our leadership and team
Over 120 years of executive management experience and deep industry knowledge spanning local and international markets. Our faculty pairs the board with specialist consultants from the front line of Nigerian banking, risk management, development finance and digital transformation.
Board
Olurotimi Dada
Managing Director / CEO
Credit & MSMEs
Financial services practitioner with 30+ years across corporate banking, credit management and financial intermediation. Career from Afribank to senior credit roles at Sterling Bank Plc.
MBA, CIS
Olanrewaju Olalusi
Non-Executive Director
Trade Finance & Banking
Financial services leader with 30+ years in corporate banking and trade finance. Former pioneering executive at Sterling Bank Plc and now Managing Director of Reverse Factoring Limited.
MBA
Babajide Shitta-Bey
Non-Executive Director
Energy & Transformation
Finance and transformation leader with 25+ years across PwC, Shell and independent advisory. Expert in financial management, business transformation and project leadership.
FCA, PMP, Scrum
Babafemi Lawal
Non-Executive Director
Strategy & Governance
Investment banker and business adviser with 25+ years across PwC, IFC and BGL Plc. Specialist in corporate finance, strategy and governance. Non-Executive Director, SFL Asset Management.
MBA
The wider team
Victor Uzu
Strategy & Economic Development
Obioma Ezeoka
Business Development & Finance
Jimi Coates-Sowoolu
Human Capital & Talent
Specialist consultants
Mustapha O. Mohammed
Consultant
Risk Management
Former Chief Risk Officer, The Alternative Bank; former Group Head, Credit Risk, Sterling Bank; former Head, Risk Division, Access Bank; former Head, Credit Audit, GTBank.
Dr. Rasaki Subair
Consultant
Credit & Enterprise Risk
30+ years in banking and development finance. Former Senior Manager, Operational Risk, and Team Leader, Credit Risk, at Sterling Bank.
PhD, FCA, FCITN, ACRMI
Ayobola Adedayo
Consultant
Digital & AI Transformation
18+ years in digital transformation and AI. Former Head of TEFConnect, Tony Elumelu Foundation, and Digital Service Manager, Coca-Cola HBC.
GEMBA, INSEAD
Clients and partners
Our clients are organisations where the cost of getting it wrong is high: banks answerable to a regulator, public institutions answerable to citizens, companies answerable to a board.
No single firm carries every capability a client needs. Long-term alliances with development finance institutions, specialist consultancies and creative and technology firms mean each engagement gets the right expertise.
Organisations we have worked with
- Lagos State Office of the Auditor-General
- Nigeria LNG (NLNG)
- Keystone Bank
- Lightway Microfinance Bank
- Pact Microfinance Bank
- Sofri Trust Microfinance Bank
- Moneyfield Microfinance Bank
- SeedVest Microfinance Bank
- Fundsworth Finance Company
- Sovereign Finance Company
- Citihoms Finance Company
- Sage-Grey
Our partners
- Bank of Industry
- NIRSAL
- EMF Consulting
- Woodridge and Scott Consulting
- Execution Edge
- Xesso
- Leapworld
- PlaySmart
- WPL
- Canton Concourse
- CreativeMyke
Development finance accreditation
Flowpond holds signed Memoranda of Understanding and formal Business Development Service Provider appointments with the Bank of Industry and NIRSAL.
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Careers
Work alongside leaders from Big 4 firms, banking and energy on problems where getting it right matters.
