Our core team is comprised of hands-on subject matter experts, who have excelled in their chosen fields, both in industry and private practice, with several years of experience.

Our Key People:

Henry Akwara

Henry Akwara is a Fellow Chartered Accountant and a Certified Anti-money Laundering Specialist (CAMS). He has over twenty five years post-qualification experience garnered from audit, finance, compliance and risk management. He is passionate about risk management and compliance. He assisted to set up the risk management and compliance functions in AXA Mansard Insurance plc, a company from which he, as a Divisional Director, resigned after ten years to pursue his dream in Risk Management and Consulting, after variously holding positions of Chief Internal Auditor, Chief Compliance Officer and Chief Risk Officer.

Henry facilitates training for a number of institutions and bodies including the Financial Institutions Training Centre, and is involved in several training programs and workshops in Risk Management, Corporate Governance and Anti-Money Laundering. Henry has attended numerous trainings locally and overseas. He is a graduate of the University of Lagos, holds an MBA from the University of Benin and is an alumnus of the Lagos Business School and currently serves as the Deputy Regional Director -Nigeria for the Professional Risk Managers International Association (PRMIA)

Nathaniel Cole

Mr. Cole is a Certified Public Accountant-(CPA) USA, Fellow Chartered Accountant (FCA), Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), CAMS- Advanced Audit Specialist, (CAMS-Audit), Specialist Institute of Risk Management (SIRM), Certified In Financial Forensics, (CFF), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Certified Forensic Consultant (CFC), and Certified Forensic Accountant (Cr.FA). He has over 30 years of post qualification experience both in the USA and Nigeria and serves as the Regional Director- Nigeria for the Professional Risk Managers International Association (PRMIA).

He is an International Speaker on Forensics, AML/CFT, Compliance and Financial Crimes at various conferences in the USA and other African countries. He assisted to set up the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) Investigation Department and also set up and managed the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria Forensics Accounting Certification Program. He has developed and is involved in several training programs and workshops in Financial Forensics, Anti-Fraud, Risk Management, Corporate Governance and Anti-Money Laundering.

Obinna Okafor

Obinna Okafor is a Fellow Chartered Accountant (FCA), a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Special (CAMS). He holds a Master’s degree in Accounting from the University of Education Winneba, Ghana, and MBA in marketing from the University of Lagos. He has over twenty (20) years of working experience as an Accountant, Internal Auditor, Chief Compliance Officer in Financial Services, Logistics and other sectors. He is also a safety professional having obtained level 3 Health, Safety and Environment Certification.

  He is an astute trainer of many years and lectures and facilitates training for a number of organisations and institutions including Pass Associate Limited, Africa’s Leading Tuition Centre, College of Insurance and Financial Management and Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurial Foundation (TEEF). He is the immediate past Chairman of The Risk Management & Compliance Committee (RMCC) of Nigeria Insurance Association, NIA, and the former Assistant Head of Nigerian Chapter of Association of Certified Compliance Practitioners in Africa (ACCPA). He won the award of the African Risk Professional of the year 2016. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Association of Compliance Specialists of Africa (ACSA). He holds a certificate of completion of Internal Audit School from MIS Institute of UK and has attended several trainings locally and internationally.

He is a successful career coach and motivational speaker who has authored several books.