Funmilola Osunsade (MBA MNIM AICM)

Funmilola Osunsade (MBA MNIM AICM) is the President/CEO of AMALYA Consults, a Financial and Investment Consulting Firm that specialises in the delivery of a full-range of consultancy services, ranging from Strategic business planning, Financial consultancy, Human resources and Capacity development services. The company was founded in December 2011, and has been engaged by corporate clients in various industrial sectors.

Ms. Osunsade joined the former Equitorial Trust Bank Limited in 1994 as a Deputy Manager, She rose through the ranks and became General Manager (GM), Branch Development and Corporate Services from November, 2005 to November, 2011 where she successfully opened 66 new branches.

This represented 85% of the total number of new branches opened in the Bank between 2006 and 2009. In 2011, due to her experience at achieving optimal solutions for complex problems, within cost and time limitations, she led the negotiation team for the merger of two financial institutions (Sterling Bank and Equatorial Trust Bank). Ms Osunsade also sits on the Board of Effbee Industries Ltd – a company that deals in Agriculture, Manufacturing and Packaging of finished products as well as Ayaba Foods Enterprises as subsidiary of Effbee Industries limited.

In March 2012, she was appointed as a member of the Board of Sterling Bank Plc, as a Non-Executive Director. A position she held till May 2014. A native of Ondo state, Ms. Osunsade is an Alumnus of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) Akoka, where she bagged a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration. She obtained an MBA in Finance from Enugu State University of Science and technology. She is also an Alumni of Lagos Business School and Wharton Business School, Univ. of Pennsylvania.

Ms. Osunsade is a member of the following professional bodies: • Member, Institute of Directors of Nigeria • Honorary
Senior Member, Nigerian Institute of Bankers • Member, Nigerian Institute of Management • Member, Institute of Cost Management • Member, Project Management Institute • Member, Nigerian Association of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises.