Onome Joy Adewuyi

Dame Onome Adewuyi is the Executive Director, Finance and Administration, at Cynergy Platforms Limited, which she co-founded. Previously, she worked at Fidelity Bank Plc from 1997 to 2015 where she rose to the position of Executive Director, Risk Management, from 2009 to 2015.

Dame Adewuyi’s career spans more than 35 years and includes many sectors, including manufacturing, oil and gas, and banking. She was the 56^th president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) from 2020 to 2021 and on ICAN’s Governing Council for 15 years, chairing and serving on many different ICAN committees, as well as being an ICAN Honorary Treasurer for three terms.

Dame Adewuyi’s service to the accountancy profession at the international and regional level include being appointed to the Public Interest Oversight Board’s Standard-Setting Boards’ Nominations Committee; serving as president, Council member and honorary treasurer of the Association of Accountancy Bodies of West Africa; chairing of the Society of Women Accountants of Nigeria; and being a Pan African Federation of Accountants board member.

Dame Adewuyi has served on the boards of several public and private companies as well as government agencies, including the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria and Law Union and Rock Insurance Plc. She is currently the chair of the board of Dominion Finance Company Limited and a non-executive director at Dominion Trust Limited. She was also recently appointed as chair of the NDDC Cooperative Society MicroFinance Bank.

Dame Adewuyi holds a B.Sc. second class Honours, Upper Division Degree in Accounting from the University of Benin, Nigeria, and an M.Sc. Degree in Banking and Finance from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. She qualified as a Chartered Accountant (ACA) in 1986, conferred (FCA) of ICAN in 1997. She also qualified as a Chartered Banker (ACIB) in 1993 and was conferred a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers in 2007. She is also a Fellow of the Risk Managers Association of Nigeria, where she was the vice president in 2007, and has attended several programs at international business schools internationally and in Nigeria.