Welcome to my world

Hi, I’m Ayo Bankole Akintujoye
a Strategist. a Start up Founder. an SME Expert. a Business Coach. a Thought Leader. a Serial Entrepreneur.

I'm a Strategy & Transformation professional with over a decade experience that covers leadership roles as the Head of Strategy Groups in the financial markets, insurance, and oil & gas industries. As a Strategy Consultant, I have provided strategy advise to over 120 companies, governments and multilateral institutions, with transactions value of over $120million. I am also a tech founder, #SDG promoter and an advocate for good governance.

Expertise

What I Do

Business Strategy

I work with clients to examine what organisations do to stay relevant in this volatile, competitive and fast paced operating environment. I combine my expertise in global strategy tools with my in-depth understanding of the local environment to create winning strategies and execution frameworks that assists my clients to achieve the necessary growth they desire.

Process Engineering

I support businesses to adopt well proven process engineering methodologies and technology to optimize their processes. I take pleasure in driving process efficiency as it ultimately helps drive cost reduction, improve business performance, identify and mitigate operational risk areas and increase value delivery to customers.

Organization Transformation

I work with Founders, Boards of Directors, and CEOs to help implement end-to-end enterprise transformation that aligns with their growth stage, enables them compete effectively and adequately deal with future changes in the industry and the global economy. This includes Organisational designs and Structures, operating model review, strategy, governance and culture change.

Startup/SME Advisory

I am the host of the annual Caladium Lagos SME Bootcamp, Nigeria’s foremost capacity development initiative for SMEs founded in 2018. We have supported over 5,000 SMEs across various industries and hope to support more SMEs as we expand across other territories.

Merger and Acquistion Advisory

I advise clients on their M&A transactions and oversee the effective structuring, negotiations, and close of M&A deals to enable my clients derive maximum value for money from their deals. These include financial and commercial due diligence, financial modelling, business valuation, post M&A integration and opportunity analysis for mergers and acquisitions.

SME Financing and Community Building

I offer a full range of community-based technology solutions to SMEs through my Tech-startup, Fedhagap. Fedhagap is committed to helping African SMEs increase turnover and scale, despite working capital limitations. We do this by solving supply chain inefficiencies through invoice discounting. We provide reliable and scalable financial solutions that put our SME community at greater advantage in their transactions.

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My Business Interests

Strategy Process People.

Access the financing you need to restock your inventory or for your next big transaction.

Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises.

13+ Years of Experience

2005 - 2019

Education

Certificate in Disruptive Strategy – Harvard Business School

(2019)

A Harvard Business School Online course facilitated by late Prof. Clayton Christensen of Harvard Business School, regarded as one of the world’s top experts on disruption, innovation, and growth strategy.

M. Sc. in Political Science (International Relations & Strategic Studies) – University of Lagos

University of Lagos (2015)

International Political Economy, Research Methods, Foreign Policy, Strategic Studies, Modern Political Thought, etc.

Certificate in Advanced Brand Strategy – Interbrand Academy

(2015)

An advanced brand strategy course on how best to create the link between strategy and visual representations to build formidable brands. The session was facilitated by Global Leaders at Interbrand, the world’s top brand agency.

Diploma in Software Marketing

Zuili University, Madrid (2009)

Branding & Communications Management, Proposal writing, Sales/Marketing Pipeline Management, etc.

B.Ed.(Hons) in Counseling/Political Scicence

Universty Of Ibadan (2005 - 2009)

Statistics, Psychology at Work, Stress & Adjustment, Organisational Behavior, Political Economy, Political Ideas, etc.

2009 - 2022

Job Experience

Head – Business Planning and Appraisal, Aiteo Group

(2020 - 2022)

I am responsible for setting up the group planning function and managing the development and execution of strategy and business plans that covers internal growth plans, expansion plans, mergers and acquisitions, etc. across one of Nigeria’s largest indigenous integrated energy group, with interests in Oil and Gas exploration and production, downstream marketing, mining, power, and agriculture.

Group Head – Strategy & Corporate Planning, Consolidated Hallmark Group (CHI)

(2018 - 2020)

I was responsible for driving the transformation and execution of innovative strategies that led to the growth of a leading financial services group. I also led the development & execution of diversification strategies that involved investments in Health Management, Microinsurance, Microfinance and investment. I supervised four strategic business units - Strategy; Research & Dev.; Budgeting & Budgetary control; and Process & Product Innovation - to support CHI's growth.

Head – Strategy Group, FMDQ OTC Securities Exchange

(2016 - 2018)

In my capacity as the Secretary of the Management Steering Committee, I worked directly with the Executive Management, and indirectly, the Board of Directors to develop and execute strategies that helped bring about revolutionary changes and fostered the development of the Nigerian financial market, whilst also driving the Exchange's vision of becoming the No 1. in the Fixed Income and Currency Markets in Africa by 2019.

Analyst; KPMG Advisory Services

(2010 – 2012)

Worked with a team of multi-discipline consultants to design and implement processes that covered HR, Admin, technology, finance, etc. We developed blueprints for the implementation of the redesigned processes and managed a partial implementation.

Consultant, Strategy & Operations, PricewaterhouseCoopers Nigeria

(2012 - 2014)

I worked with various project teams to help businesses with key areas like
• Strategy & Business Plan Development
• Mergers & Acquisition
• Feasibility Studies
• Business process development/review
• Commercial and Operational Due Diligence
• Balanced Scorecard Implementation

Process Optimisation Analyst; C2G Consulting (A SAP Gold Partner)

(2009 – 2010)

* Process Analyst; Analysis of prospects and Clients' business processes to identify gaps and recommend improvement areas, to ultimately lead to process integration and optimisation, using the SAP ERP technology.
* Customer Relationship Management, Brand and Communications management. Responsible for development of high impact CRM and brand strategy; facilitating increase in lead generation and client retention.

What Clients Say

Testimonial

DUTUM GROUP

Dutum is a world-class engineering and construction company with a reputation for technical excellence founded on more than 20 years of experience.

Temitope Runsewe - MD

"We wanted to transform our 30 years old business, Caladium came highly recommended and they surpassed our expectations”

STRETFORD HILL LIMITED

Stretfordhill is a medium fast-growing construction company with a decent portfolio of clients in both the public and private sectors of the economy.

Engineer Lakunle Runsewe - CEO

“Thanks to Caladium Consulting, we now run a more efficient organization with the right skills, processes and overall corporate structure”

OAKS AND OLIVES

Oaks and Olive is a small - medium-sized food & beverage company operating based on the instinct and personal drive of the founder but needed to scale by pitching to investors.

Oshione Igwonobe - Founder

“I raised the funds I needed to scale my business because my Investors were very impressed at the level of detail contained in my business plan”

FATOUM GROUP

Fatoum Group is a shipping and logistics company.

Alhaji Nazeer Dahiru - CEO

“In the months since Ayo Bankole became our management consultant, Fatoum Group has experienced a 360° transformation in all our processes.”

QMB HYPERMART

QMB Builders Mart is a one-stop shop for developers, builders, professionals, and individual home improvement customers and they had multiple outlets scattered in Lagos, Nigeria that had been running for decades.

Ayo Biobaku - Founder

“It is really refreshing to work with a group of young hardworking professionals who gave their very best to support my business. The advisory support they provided eased my engagement with investors, and stakeholders”