Osita Nebolisa, Ph.D.

Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer

Osita (Ossy) is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Visa Microfinance Bank Ltd. He has led the bank since it was established in 2009 to extend over N6.5billion credit facilities to individuals and SMEs. He earned his Ph.D. degree from Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University (former Anambra State University), Anambra State, where he researched on Entrepreneurship, Financial Management and SME Management. Ossy, also an alumnus of the University of Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom holds MSc degree in International Business. He was also the Best Graduating Student of the Department of Marketing at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, where he bagged BSc degree in Marketing.

With over 19 years unparalleled experience and exposure in the banking and finance industry, he has garnered deep expertise, exposure and skill-set needed in steering the ship of a financial institution. Previously, he worked with Intercontinental Bank Plc (Access Bank), Guardian Express Bank Plc (Heritage Bank), Ecobank Plc and Bank PHB Plc (Keystone Bank). He headed strategic departments and personnel in the banks and spearheaded key initiatives and product developments. He also set up and managed an NGO (The Poverty Mitigation Initiative Foundation – PMIF) that aided the financially excluded persons.

He is a member of Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN). He is a consummate financial management professional with extensive foreign and local exposures/training as well as with versatile experience in key financial areas. His wealth of knowledge continues to prove strategic and invaluable for Visa Microfinance Bank Ltd. Ossy is currently the Chairman of the National Association of Microfinance Banks (NAMB), FCT-Abuja Chapter.

Angela Ozigi

Director

Mrs Angela Ozigi is a consultant on IT, travels and telecommunications. She graduated from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria with BSc degree in Administration. She sits on Board of Telestrategies Consulting Ltd and Western International Tours Ltd. She also had a stint at the National Productivity Centre, Abuja where she contributed immensely to the nations’s labour sector.

She is a member of the National Council of Women Society and the Nigerian Institute of Management. On the Board of Visa Microfinance Bank, her measured input has always been of immense help.

Emeka Anekwe

Director

Emeka graduated from Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka with a BSc degree in Marketing. His sojourn in the university was eventful as he led the students’ union body of the department as the first elected pioneer President. He started his career with Allstates Trust Bank Plc in 1999. His stint at Allstates Trust Bank Plc saw him navigate various departments where he also rose to man the Retail Banking as a Unit Head. He left Allstates for TMC Savings and Loans Limited and managed the mortgage bank as a Branch Manager for many years. He rose through the ranks to run the bank as the Acting Managing Director.

He founded, established and continues to manage Maxitrust Microfinance Bank Limited since 2008 when he decided to actively engage with the Federal Government’s anti-poverty programme/initiatives. He was spurred to action by the Chukwuma Charles Soludo microfinance reform programmes during the Olusegun Obasanjo regime. He has participated in many local and foreign training programmes and is also a certified microfinance banker – as endorsed and supervised by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN).