Lola
Aworanti-Ekugo
Chief Digital Officer at FBN Quest
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Lola Aworanti-Ekugo Bio
Lola is a Digital and Innovation specialist with over 15 years of experience in the industry. She started her career as a software engineer at Investec Asset Management, London where she was responsible for the development of digital solutions in the asset management portfolio. Since then, she has worked in various capacities across different roles in the financial services industry in Europe and Africa at companies including Dresdner Kleinwort, Commerzbank and BNP Paribas.Lola spearheaded the Digital Innovation Labs initiative at FirstBank Nigeria, where she was responsible for formulating and accelerating the Bank’s digital transformation and Innovation strategy in Nigeria and across its subsidiaries. More recently she was the head of Digital and Innovation at Union Bank Nigeria where she is responsible for defining and implementing its Digital & Innovation strategy and roadmap with a focus on identifying new digital product/service/fintech opportunities, optimising customer experience across channels and improving operational efficiency using technology.
Lola received her MBA from Imperial College Business School, London. She holds a BSC in Business Information systems (First Class Honours) from Middlesex University, London with scholarship for outstanding academic performance. She has founded two start-ups, including Transthat.com, a peer-to-peer logistics platform. She also founded Techstart.africa, an initiative focused on empowering students interested in starting a career in technology and equipping them with the requisite knowledge and support to break into the technology field and build strong careers regardless of their first degree of study. She is also a faculty member at Elev8 global academy for digital leaders and serves on the Tech Committee of WimBiz, the Digital Transformation Committee of JA Nigeria, Imperial College Enterprise Labs and She Leads Africa as a mentor. She is one of the 30 women profiled by Fintech Africa as one of the exceptional women playing leading roles in their various companies and shaping the Fintech sector in Africa.
Lola has visited over 30 countries and recently launched her first novel “Lagos to London”. A fiction novel aimed at inspiring youths to find their own paths and strive to be their best wherever they find themselves in the world as global citizens.
