Babajide Ibironke

Babajide is Group CFO of Viathan Engineering, based in Lagos, Nigeria.

Viathan is an energy as a service company where he directs strategy, financial planning and control as well as managing stakeholder relationships including private equity investors, lending institutions, bondholders, shareholders and regulators.

He has a track-record in finance leadership roles over two decades from academic, healthcare, manufacturing banking and non-banking financial institutions. His expertise spans audit, treasury, financial management, strategic business reporting, taxation, budgeting and administration.

He has many years of project and corporate finance experience in developed and emerging markets as well as achievements in project development, including both the raising and deployment of capital (equity, mezzanine and debt) for direct investments across key infrastructure sectors including healthcare.

Babajide has experience in structuring and arranging complex, first-in-kind transactions that have shaped project finance in sub-Saharan Africa.

He is a board member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria’s (ICAN) Financial Reporting Faculty; board member of ICAN ICT and Consultancy Faculty and secretary to the board of trustees of IFRS Experts, Nigeria.