United Capital Plc wins 2022 Sectorial Leadership Award

PEARL Award Plaque

 

United Capital Plc has won the Sectorial Leadership – Financial Services (other Financial Institutions) award at the Performance Earnings and Returns Leadership (PEARL) award.

 

PEARL Awards is one of Nigeria’s foremost recognition bodies, focused on rewarding corporate excellence in local institutions and promoting healthy competitiveness among quoted companies through growth, diversification and innovation, ultimately leading to improved performance on the Nigerian Exchange (NGX).

 

 

As a group, we are proud to be recognised again as market leaders in the financial services space. This recognition further testifies to our unique strength as a formidable financial services group with a proud history of setting the pace in the Nigerian financial services industry.

 

 

2022 PEARL Award
L-R: Gbadebo Aderenle, MD, United Capital Investment Bank, Sunny Anene, Deputy Group CEO, United Capital Plc, Bawo Ortisejafor, MD, United Capital Securities Ltd at the 2022 PEARL Award Ceremony.

 

2022 PEARL Awards

L-R: Bawo Ortisejafor, MD, United Capital Securities Ltd, Buky Ikeotuonye, MD, United Capital Trustees Ltd, Gbadebo Aderenle, MD, United Capital Investment Bank, Sunny Anene, Deputy Group CEO, United Capital Plc, Odiri Oginni, MD, United Capital Asset Management Ltd, Adetola Fasuyi, Head, Wealth Management, United Capital Plc, at the 2022 PEARL Award Ceremony.

 

About United Capital:

United Capital Plc is a leading Pan-African financial and investment services group, providing bespoke value-added service to its clients. United Capital Plc is positioned to play a strategic role in helping African governments, corporates, and individuals achieve their strategic objectives, through a robust suite of financial and investment service offerings by our Group companies across Investment Banking, Asset & Wealth Management, Trusteeship, Securities Trading and Consumer Finance.

The Group is regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in Nigeria.

JOSEPH ONYEMA

Head, Group Enterprise Performance Management
Joseph Onyema
Joseph is the Head, Group Enterprise Performance Management at United Capital Plc.
Over the last 16 years, Joseph has worked with and led teams whose responsibilities cut across a major spectrum of technology transformational and retail growth projects and consultancy. Joining the group in 2017, Joseph started out leading the technology team for 5+ years in the position of the Group, Chief Information Officer, a role in which his focus on execution to reposition the business was exemplary, hence leading to increased digital presence, retail growth and improved revenues, with keen focus on our growth during the COVID-19 pandemic where the business was run totally virtual and saw outstanding growth in customers, revenue and profitability.​
Leveraging on his education, performance, experience and spirit of execution, Joseph transitioned to the Group Head, Enterprise Performance Management, where he brings his analytical and technological prowess coupled with his background in managing teams and businesses to bare in monitoring and tracking business units and employees performances, while helping them to improve in their performance and ensuring the group continues to win in all its endeavours.
Before joining United Capital, Joseph headed the Group Technology Operations at Cordros Capital Limited where he transitioned the business from a High Net-worth Individual (HNI) focused business to retail-focused business with total leverage on technology to drive B2C sales across verticals while exploring new markets and partnerships. Prior to Cordros Capital, he had led the Enterprise & Cloud Services team at Soft Solutions Limited, an IT Consultancy firm with a footprint across 15 Nigerian banks on enterprise security, cloud projects, and consultancy where he developed, deployed, and led support teams to manage several financial and FMCG application suites.
A Tony Elumelu entrepreneur from 2016 before joining the group, and a member of the prestigious Beta Gamma Sigma international business honor society, continues to reinvent himself and deliver exceptionally to the United Capital family.