Femi has over 35 years of accounting, financial advisory, portfolio management, private equity, corporate finance, principal investment, and project finance experience in the international and West African markets.
He has managed the execution of over US$10b of energy transactions covering upstream, midstream, downstream, power, renewable energy and other energy related infrastructure in the Nigerian and African markets, including a US$276m sale of a downstream marketing business, a US$150m transportation business as well as a US$100m real estate development.
His previous experiences include Managing Director/CEO of BGL’s Investment Banking Group, Investment banker at Rand Merchant Bank, and Head & Director with Stanbic Bank’s Project & Structured Finance Group. Prior to Argentil, Femi was the Managing Director/CEO of the investment banking subsidiary of BGL Plc with overall responsibility for the structured finance, corporate finance and principal investment business. Femi also held senior roles in Rand Merchant Bank, Stanbic Bank Nigeria (now Stanbic IBTC) and Asset & Resource Management Investment Fund Managers (ARM).
Femi holds an MBA and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (CIoD).