Ewi Akpata is the founder and managing partner of New Brunswick Partners. Before starting the firm, he worked with Global Banks in the United States of America.

Ewi has over 20 years of banking and reporting management experience with special focus on compliance and controls, management reporting, data analytics including enterprise performance management. He recently led the Finance reporting Group at Deutsche Bank covering the global equities business. His role in that capacity included planning, budgeting & forecasting, compliance and control. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, he held various positions at UBS New York and Credit Suisse First Boston at different times.

He understands operational efficiency and effectiveness from a risk and control standpoint. He has a working knowledge of the COSO framework and assists organizations to put this in place. Ewi has a passion for supporting management to make the right decisions through the development of an effective management information system which provides insight, efficiency and control to operational activities. He is a trainer par excellence and regularly trains finance professionals on back-office operational excellence and efficiency.

Mr Akpata is a graduate of Bernard Baruch College of New York City where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration. He has attended several leadership programs

Agada Obadiah is a Management Consultant and Project Manager with passion and energy for best value delivery in several big-value initiatives in varied industries and sectors. Having worked with leading industry experts, top-management and executives to identify key business issues and develop solutions, he has over the years garnered critical skills that has created business value and is still transforming several clients.

He has led several teams and work-packages on various projects including Business transformational initiatives, IT projects, financial reporting and core business analysis. With active participation in landmark projects, he has been able to propose viable solutions and management alternatives; identify and nib project risks and issues; provide leadership to teams and a critical support to projects.

Key transformational projects include:

• Several Business Process Reengineering for Several clients in Manufacturing, Insurance, Oil and Gas, Banking, Transport, etc. and other companies in both financial and non-financial services industries
• Several Asset Verification and Fixed Assets Management Projects
• Several IFRS project management; from accounting, process, technology, training and change management perspectives
• Management of an IT Roadmap Transformation Programme for a leading Bank in Africa; interrelated IT projects aimed at repositioning the Bank
• Forensic review and transactional investigation for a major health services provider
• Business valuations, financial analysis and tax reviews for clients in varied industries
• Operations analysis, strategy formulation, ERP and Systems Implementation for several clients

Gbenga Adewuyi is a visionary with over a decade of industry-focused experience and proven record of success in business management, supply chain management, business process review and design, systems implementation, IT strategy development and project management across the Financial Services, Government, Oil & Gas and Manufacturing industries. His process expertise covers materials requirements & production planning, direct procurement, invoicing & supplier debit/credit processes, warehouse inventory management, and distribution/logistics processes. He has worked with top-management executives to identify key business issues and develop solutions. He has been involved in several transformational projects as a team member, delivery manager and project manager. Gbenga is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) by the Project Management Institute (PMI) and is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Gbenga merges his experience in information technology and management consulting to help clients in diagnosing business challenges, evaluating solutions, designing and implementation of lean and efficient business processes with the objective of improving the bottom-line.

Owen Arasomwan has vast expertise in petroleum accounting, tax and finance having worked for close over a decade and as a chartered accountant and tax advisor for many global firms. He trained with Deloitte both as an auditor and consultant. During his time in Deloitte, he serviced many multinational organizations providing top notch assurance, systems documentation, controls mapping and review and business advisory services.

In the energy industry, he worked in Addax Petroleum (now known as Sinopec) as Budget and Tax controller responsible for tax compliance, crude allocation calculation, NNPC and internal budget. He later joined Statoil, the Norwegian energy giant. While in Statoil Nigeria he was responsible for restructuring the commercial department.

He was later at the forefront of tax arbitration involving over $1 billion disputed claims between the international oil companies and NNPC and FIRS. He was an active member of different sub-committees of the OPTS including Tax, Terminal operations and legal. He is an expert in tax planning and advisory, petroleum and energy taxation, transfer pricing, etc.

A Chartered Accountant with over 14 years of professional experience; Owen is a graduate of Finance from the University of Lagos where he graduated as the best graduating student in the Faculty in both instances. He has attended various trainings in and outside Nigeria. He is currently a sought after trainer for many training schools within and outside the country.

Yemi Abaolu-Johnson is an astute accountant and consultant. He trained with PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte and had hands on experience with Sarbanes Oxley engagements, business risk assessment, process improvement, compliance audits, financial audits, process audits, finance, financial and business modelling, etc; where he assisted very many multinational companies with their processes.

He worked with AP Moller Maersk Nigeria as a Cluster/Group Internal Control Manager, set up the Quality Assurance Unit for Access Bank Plc. He managed a 20 man team Business Process Reengineering Project for one of Nigeria’s 24 commercial banks.

He is positioned to contribute immensely to any organisation in business (process, financial and strategic) managements, oil and gas accounting, financial services, process development and improvement, risk management, business relationships, business development, business strategy, regulations management, staff development, etc. capacities. He has broad exposures to Standards – GAAPs (US FAS, IAS, IFRS and Nigeria’s SAS), and other tools like ISA, IIA’s Performance and Attribute Standards, COSO Control Framework, etc.

He possesses sound knowledge of business processes, budgetary skills, financial management skills, etc; and deep working knowledge of COSO’s enterprise risk management framework (ERMF) and Basel II and its other risk management principles. Oluyemi trains Transitioning IFRS, Risk Management, Corporate Governance and other leading topics at public workshops and for finance staff of multinational companies.