Yemi Adesanya

Yemi Adesanya is a Chartered Accountant with cross-functional experience of 25+ years in financial services, IT services, and consulting. She has worked in various capacities on strategy formulation and execution support, management accounting and performance management, financial control, business process engineering, and ERP implementations, enterprise risk management, financial risk management, and internal controls.

Over the span of her career and in FirstBank, she has held various positions including Head Business Performance Mgt, and Acting Group Chief Financial Officer. She is currently FirstBank’s Financial Controller.

Yemi is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountant of Nigeria, and an alumna of various business schools including Lagos Business Schools Advanced Management Development, European School of Management and Technology’s Executive Transition Program (ESMT Berlin), London Business School’s CFO Program. Yemi is a lover of the arts, a game inventor, and an author. She enjoys reading, playing Sudoku and table-tennis. Yemi is happily married with two beautiful children.