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United Capital Plc is a leading pan-African financial services institution focused on leveraging technology to empower businesses, individuals and governments with excellent financial services.

We seek to create value for investors across a wide financial spectrum. We revel in playing a strategic role to help individual and corporate entities (including governments) achieve their strategic objectives through our robust suite of financial and investment service offerings.

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United Capital is transforming the African continent by providing innovative investment solutions to governments, companies, and individuals.

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To be the leading investment and finance hub across Africa, deploying innovation and technology to exceed client expectations, whilst creating premium value .

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CHIKA MORDI

Chairman

Chika Mordi
Chika Mordi brings significant experience to the board in the areas of governance, regional knowledge and industry expertise. He has served (often in a supervisory capacity) on the boards of more than thirty companies of diverse sizes in Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, the UK and the U.S. Mordi is a member of the advisory board of Harvard’s Shorenstein Center. He also served on several government and multilateral committees, including the World Economic Forum’s agenda board . He continues to advise governments, businesses and individuals on competitiveness and strategy.
An avid scholar, Mordi holds an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School, an MBA from IESE Business School, a Masters from SAIS Johns Hopkins, a Masters in Public Communication from American University in the USA, an advance management diploma from Harvard Business School and a Bsc in economics from the University of Ilorin. He contributes regularly to international print and broadcast media outlets and has travelled to over fifty countries.

PETER ASHADE

Group Chief Executive Officer

Peter Ashade
Peter is an astute corporate executive renowned for his expertise in Execution, Business Transformation, Organizational Strategy, and Leadership with an illustrious career spanning over 34 years in Nigeria's financial sector, including over two decades as Chief Executive of leading financial institutions in Nigeria. He has cognate experience in finance with specialist experience in Retail Business Development, Banking and Capital Market operations having participated in numerous notable market transactions across all segments of the financial markets.

He holds an MBA in Marketing from the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), an MSc in Finance from the University of Lagos and a BSc in Banking and Finance from Ogun State University (now Olabisi Onabanjo University). He is a Fellow of several prestigious organizations including the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, the Chartered Institute of Bankers and the Institute of Capital Market Registrars. He is an associate of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria, the Institute of Directors and an alumnus of the prestigious Lagos Business School (CEP23) and Global CEO program.

Prior to joining United Capital Plc, Peter served as Managing Director/CEO, Africa Prudential Plc (formerly UBA Registrars Limited). He sits on the board of notable organizations and is a member of the Institute of Directors (IoD) Nigeria. He is the Group Chief Executive Officer of United Capital Plc, a position he has held since his appointment in July 2018.

SUNNY ANENE

Deputy Group Chief Executive Officer

Sunny Anene
Sunny is the Deputy Group Chief Executive Officer, responsible for the supervision of 4 business areas – United Capital Asset Management Limited, United Capital Securities Limited, United Capital Trustees and the Wealth Management Business. Prior to this time, he was the Group Executive Director supervising two businesses and three functional areas: Finance, Treasury and Operations. Before this, he also served as MD/CEO of United Capital Asset Management Limited, which he turned around and put on the part of growth.

He has also served as the Group Chief Finance Officer with responsibilities in Risk Management, Information Technology, Treasury, Finance, Operations and Corporate Servies. His experience spans through decades of expertise in financial services cutting across banking and finance, investment management, Capital markets and Pension industries. His proven ingenuity in these areas is brought to bear on his stellar management of the Group’s extensive businesses.

Prior to joining United Capital Plc, he was Head of Operations at FCMB Capital Markets, and later Lead Trader for CSL Stockbrokers, the Securities Trading arm of the Group. He moved to pension management in Zenith Pension Custodian Limited, a subsidiary of Zenith Bank Plc. He returned to the Capital Markets in 2008 when he joined Chapel Hill Denham where he spent six (6) years in two different roles, first as the Director of Finance and Operations, and then the MD/CEO for the securities trading business.

He holds a Master’s degree in Finance from the University of Lagos. He is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers (CIS), the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN), an Associate of the Certified Pension Institute of Nigeria and a member of the Institute of Directors. He is an alumnus of Lagos Business School (LBS) and IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain. He has attended leadership trainings organized by Harvard Business School and General Electric (GE), USA. He was appointed a director on January 2, 2019.
He was appointed a director on January 2, 2019.