IJEOMA TAYLAUR

Ijeoma is Executive Director at Alpha African Advisory Limited (‘AAA’). She is a dynamic and performance oriented finance professional with a career spanning over 21 years with a strong track record of delivering results and providing innovative solutions to financial challenges in multinationals. Ijeoma’s experience includes financial audit, financial advisory, business advisory, financial management, business process reviews, and private equity fund management.

At AAA, Ijeoma leads the gateway services providing a range of market entry assistance services. She also plays a lead role in the origination and execution of financial and business advisory mandates, including financial restructuring, due diligence and valuation transactions. Ijeoma also manages and directs all aspects of the Finance & Accounting functions of the Company.

Prior to joining Alpha African Advisory, Ijeoma spent over 10 years with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) at their Lagos and London offices where she was responsible for the integrated audit of major players in the upstream, downstream and services sectors of the oil and gas industry.

Ijeoma holds a bachelor’s degree in Accountancy and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountant of Nigeria (‘FCA’). She has also received extensive training in Auditing, Consulting, Risk Management, and various team management programs.

Ijeoma sits on the Boards of Alpha African Advisory Limited and Superior Games Limited. She also serves as Alternate Director on the Board of Dorman Long Engineering. Ijeoma is an active Associate of WIMBIZ (Women in Management, Business and Public Service). In addition, she serves on the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (‘NESG’) Conference Planning Technical Committee for ‘NES 24’ (2018) and ‘NES 25’ (2019).

Ijeoma is passionate about socio-economic development in Africa and advancement of female talent and in her spare time, enjoys reading, travelling and meeting new people.