FACULTY MEMBER

THE CEO

Elder Boma Vincent BeneboFNIMC, CMCis the Chairman/Chief Executive of Soboms NigeriaLtd. He retired as an Executive Management Staff of the Central Bank of Nigeria. He has over 30years experience in Development Financing and has been involved in the initiation of many of the Central Bank of Nigeria Development Finance Initiatives. His Experience span the spectrum of Development Finance ranging from financing of the Agric sector, MSME, Power Sector, Aviation, Infrastructure, and policy initiation. At retirement he was the Head of the Infrastructure Finance Office in Development Finance Department of the Central Bank of Nigeria and Managed The CBN Interventions in Power and Airlines Sector and the several other Power Sector Initiatives. He has been a member of several committees that have midwifed several National Development Finance Policy Initiatives among which are the Trust Fund model, Power & Airlines Intervention Fund, Nigeria Electricity Market Stabilization Facility, Nigeria Bulk Electricity Trader Payment Assurance Facility, CBN-Bank of Industry Industrial Facility, CBN Infrastructure Finance Policy which became an Input into the National Integrated Infrastructure Master Plan, NYSC Venture Prize initiative, etc. He was a member Representing CBN on the Presidential Power Sector Recovery Programme, Committee for the National Integrated Infrastructure Master Plan, Committee on the documentation of 50 years of Central Banking in Nigeria(Development Financing) &several Others. Prior to his assignment to the Head Office of the CBN, he has managed the Agricultural Finance Intervention in the Niger Delta States of Akwa Ibom, Rivers and Bayelsa States and initiated and managed the Trust Fund Model executed by Shell Petroleum Development Corporation as the Microcredit Scheme for Agric Development, Agip as Green CARD, Total as Total CARD. He is widely exposed to country experiences in Development Finance in Africa and beyond.