Our Team Details

Partner & Co-founder

Olawale Abiola

olawale.abiola@ao-fa.com

BSc (Econs), MBA, MSc, AAT, ACCM, AMNIM, CMC, FIMC, FCTI, FCA
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Olawale is a Partner & Co-founder of the firm and he is a double first class product. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), with over two decades of professional experience in Accounting & Audit, Tax & Management Consulting, Corporate Finance, Treasury, Business process transformation, Leadership etc. He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN), fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants of Nigeria (IMC), Associate member of the Certified Institute of Cost Management of Nigeria (CICMN), Associate member of Nigeria Institute of Management-Chartered (NIM) and Associate Accounting Technician (AAT ICAN). He is Vice Chairman AAT Executive Committee of ICAN (2007/2008). He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from Lagos State University, Ojo (LASU) and a first class of Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree in Financial Management from Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomosho (LAUTECH). He also holds MSc (Finance) degree from University of Lagos, Akoka (UNILAG); he finished with first class and as the best graduating student for 2019/2020 session. He is an Alumnus of Lagos Business School (LBS).

His work experience is over two decades (12years in Multinationals) including Banking, Audit & Tax practice, Manufacturing, Financial & Management Consulting, Oil & Gas and Telecommunications (Vendor and Operator). He worked with Gateway Ventures Limited, BOT Consulting Limited, Devcom Bank Limited (in Finance control department, branch operations, Head office operations, Treasury, Clearing and Central Cash management), Equitorial Trust Bank Limited (Now Sterling Bank), Olu Apanisile & Co (Chartered Accountants), Celtel Nigeria Limited (a multinational telecommunication operator- in Business planning and reporting directorate in Finance department), Huawei Technologies Co. Nigeria Limited (a multinational telecommunication vendor as Tax Manager and Business Finance Controller) and Airtel Networks Limited (a multinational telecommunication operator as Senior Finance Officer).

He managed successfully various multi- billion dollars projects for different companies in his career. He has many achievements and awards in most business organizations he worked.

He is a regular facilitator at ICAN Mandatory and Continuing Professional Development (MCPD) programs and other business seminars & conferences. He facilitates in KPMG, PWC, MTN, 9Mobile, I.H.S Towers, Standard Chartered Bank (SCB), NDIC In-house ICAN MCPD & Telecoms Sector, IT Sector, Banking Sector and Audit/Accountancy Sector Training. He is the Coordinator, Telecom Sector ICAN MCPD Strategy Retreat 2017-2021.

He consults for Leadmode RDI Nigeria as an Associate Academic Tutor for various foreign universities namely: University of Leicester, London, University of Sunderland and Wales University for MBA and MSc (Finance) programme. He tutored the following courses: Accounting for Managers, Corporate Finance, Strategic Financial Management, Financial Risk Management, Finance growth & strategy.

He has been actively involved in the reformation and restoration of his alma mater Igbobi College, Lagos, Nigeria through Igbobi College Old Boys’ Association (ICOBA).

Partner & Co-founder

Tayo Folorunsho

Tayo.folorunsho@ao-fa.com

BSc (Econs), MBA, AAT, FCA
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Tayo is a Partner & Co-founder of the firm. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), with over 15 years of professional experience in Accounting, Treasury, Tax & Financial Consulting, Business Strategy etc. He is an Associate Accounting Technician (AAT ICAN). He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from Lagos State University, Ojo (LASU), Postgraduate degree (PGD) in Strategic Management from Stratford Business School United Kingdom (UK) and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from Anglia Ruskin University, United Kingdom (UK).

His work experience is over 15 years (7years in Multinationals) including Manufacturing, Financial & Management Consulting, Engineering firm and International Non-Governmental Organization (NGO). He worked with Abibyet International, Nigeria as Financial Accountant, Aspire Consulting, Nigeria as Financial Analyst, Oats Global Energy, Nigeria as Account &Admin Manager, Atlas Copco, Nigeria as Senior Accountant, TechnoServe, Nigeria as Country Accountant and Action against Hunger, Head of Finance.

In addition to managing successfully various multi- billion dollars projects for different companies in his career, he has many achievements and awards in most business organizations he worked.

He has designed internal controls, enhancing standardizations and introducing new controls where appropriate for many companies in his career.

He has been involved in trainings to produce many chartered accountants.