Toyin F Sanni

Mrs. Toyin F. Sanni is Founder /Executive Chairman at Emerging Africa Group as well as Board Chair at Layer3 Limited. She joined the Board of Transcorp in 2018. She is the Founder and Chairperson of Women In Finance Nigeria and UK Chapter, a platform for advocacy, development, and networking of women in the financial sector and other financial roles in Nigeria.

Mrs. Sanni has over thirty-three years of experience as a prominent Investment Banker, Public Personality & Speaker. She derives satisfaction from grooming future leaders, leverages networks across markets, and has extensive experience working on leading transactions to achieve growth objectives and proffering capital solutions for financing & investing challenges of African governments, businesses & individuals.

Her prior roles include Group Chief Executive Officer, United Capital Plc; CEO, UBA Trustees & UBA Global Investor Services; CEO, Cornerstone Trustees & AGM; First Trustees (now FBNQuest Trustees), President, Association of Investment Advisers (CIIA), President, Investment Advisers and Portfolio Managers (IAPM), and President, Association of Corporate Trustees. Toyin has a Master’s degree in law, Toyin holds professional qualifications as a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers, a Fellow Chartered Institute of Secretaries and Administrators, and a Member, the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investments, United Kingdom.

Mrs. Toyin has also won numerous awards. In 2017, she was declared the All African Business Woman of the year 2017 by CNBC Africa, & Nigeria’s CEO of the Year by Pearl Awards. In 2020 and 2021, she was named one of Africa’s Top Influencers on LinkedIn. She served on numerous boards and committees.