Mr. Opeyemi Agbaje is currently serving on the Board of FCSL Finance Company Limited as a Non-Executive Director, a highly respected economic and policy analyst, management consultant, business school lecturer, lawyer, and former senior banker is one of Nigeria’s leading strategy and business advisers.

He is the Founder of RTC Advisory Services Ltd, a leading strategy, economy and policy, and business advisory firm. Mr Agbaje serves as Chairman and CEO at RTC Advisory, a position he returned to in September 2021 after a two-year stint as Executive Secretary/CEO of Ogun State Security Trust Fund from August 2019 to September 2021.

  • He was previously on the board of the Lagos State Security Trust Fund (LSSTF) for two terms between 2011 and August 2019. Mr. Agbaje served for over five (5) years in GTB’s Financial Institutions and Correspondent Banking Group, including as Manager/Team Lead and Assistant General Manager/Group Head overseeing the Bank’s business with Investment/Merchant Banks, Capital Market Companies, Development Banks and other Non-Bank Financial Institutions.
  • He is acclaimed as a Financial Sector expert. He is also a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)-registered Capital Market Consultant-Solicitor (registered since 2006) and chairs the Investment Strategy Committees of five (5) SEC-approved Funds managed by leading capital market firms, Vetiva Capital Management (Vetiva Money Market Fund and Vetiva Griffin 30 Exchange Traded Fund) and FCMB Asset Management Ltd (Legacy Debt Fund, Legacy Equity Fund and Legacy Dollar Fund).
  • Mr. Opeyemi Agbaje started his banking career as a corporate solicitor in the Legal/Company Secretarial Department of First Bank of Nigeria Plc, after working as Counsel at Kola Awodein and Co. SAN., before moving into core banking at GTBank.
  • Opeyemi Agbaje is on the faculty of the Lagos Business School teaching Business Strategy and Social, Political and Economic Environment of Business (SPEB) since 1999. He joined the full faculty in 2004, leaving in 2007 as Head of Department of Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Business Environment to return to part-time teaching. His curriculum and areas of focus covers areas of business environment, law and regulation in financial services and investment, economic reforms and markets and country risk analysis. He holds Master’s Degrees in both Law (1989) and Business (1997) from the University of Lagos and IESE Business School, Spain respectively. Opeyemi graduated in Law with Honors from the University of Ife in 1985 and was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1986.
  • Opeyemi worked for over sixteen years in banking and finance through various institutions including First Bank of Nigeria Plc, Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, Oceanic Bank (now Ecobank Nigeria), and Metropolitan Bank Ltd (now UBA Plc) rising to Executive Director. He voluntarily exited the banking sector in 2004 when he founded RTC Advisory Services Ltd, to pursue his passion for economy and policy, strategy, research, consulting, and academia.
  • His multi-disciplinary work experience commenced as a public prosecutor in the DPP’s Office in the defunct Bendel State Ministry of Justice, Benin; almost two years of practice as a Solicitor and Advocate at Kola Awodein SAN and Co. and work as a corporate counsel in the Legal/Company Secretarial Department of First Bank. At GTBank, he joined as a foundation staff at the inception of the bank in 1990 as a banking officer and rose rapidly to Manager by 1994 and Assistant General Manager by 1998 working in consumer banking, financial institutions and correspondent banking, and corporate and commercial banking.