Speaker Profile

Agudah Oguche

CEO,

Pension Fund Operators Association of Nigeria (PenOp)

Speaker Bio

Oguche is currently the CEO of the Pension Fund Operators Association of Nigeria (PenOp), the industry body for all licensed pension funds in Nigeria who collectively manage roughly USD 15 billion of pension assets. In this role, he leads the efforts of the pension industry in engaging various stakeholders, including the government, financial markets, the media, regulators, international organizations and others in order to ensure that the interests of the pension operators are promoted and protected and also to fashion ways to ensure the industry positively affects the contributors, and the society at large.

He was previously Nigeria’s Regional Director for OurCrowd, a crowdfunding, impact investment and venture capital firm with headquarters in Israel.  He also previously worked as a Special Adviser to Nigeria’s Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, where his portfolio was “Access to Finance”

He also worked in Standard Chartered bank for 15 years, where he had roles in financial control, credit, origination and client coverage, risk, corporate finance and strategy. Whilst in Standard Chartered, he had short term assignments in South Africa and London, working in Credit Risk, and Corporate Finance. His last role there was as an Associate Director in their Lagos office, where he was in charge of the credit quality of a portfolio of assets worth USD 7 billion dollars.  

He is currently a member of the Nigerian National Advisory Board for Impact Investments, under the Global Steering Group for Impact Investments (GSG). He is also a founding Governing Council member of Pan African Fund Managers Association of Nigeria (PAFMA).