MR. JUDE ONYEKA CHIEMEKA
CEO, Nigerian Exchange Limited
Mr. Chiemeka is the CEO of Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) a fully owned subsidiary of Nigerian Exchange Group. He has over thirty (30) years of professional experience in Securities Trading, Asset Management, and Investment Banking across African markets. He joined The Nigerian Stock Exchange as the Divisional Head of Trading Business in February 2019 and in 2021 He became the Divisional Head, Capital Markets. Before his current position, he was the Executive Director of Capital Markets at NGX.
Before joining the Exchange, he worked with United Capital Securities Limited, a subsidiary of United Capital Plc. As the MD/CEO of United Capital Securities Limited, he championed the first cross broader trading under the West African Capital Market Integration initiative and was also responsible for Strategy, Market penetration, Product development, and Client Management. He also championed the issuance and listing of the First Eurobonds Mutual Fund($10M) listed on the Nigerian Exchange Limited and Wealth for Women Mutual Fund, the first gender-focused mutual fund listed on the Exchange.
Before joining United Capital Plc, He was the CEO/MD of Chapel Hill Denham Securities where he was responsible for Strategy, Leadership, Product development, and Customer relationship management. He led the firm to rank among the Top 10 brokerage firms responsible for over 70% of market trades with a 4% market share. Before that, he was the CEO/MD of RenCap Securities (Nigeria) Limited a fully owned subsidiary of Renaissance Capital Plc. At RenCap Securities he was responsible for Customer relationship management, Trading, Management reports, Budgets, and clients’ acquisition.
In 2008, before joining RenCap, he was the Head of Securities Trading at Afrinvest West Africa Ltd where he was responsible for Fixed Income and Equities Transactions across African markets for International and domestic institutional clients. He was also involved in several landmark transactions including the first Global Depository Receipts (GDR) transaction on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, Nigerian International Debt Fund, Reverse GDR trades, etc. Before this, he was with Dominion Trust Limited where he started his career in 1994.
He is a Fellow and Council Member of the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers (FCS), Member of the Institute of Directors (IOD), Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI), UK. Fellow of the Association of Investment Advisers and Portfolio Managers and Associate of the Certified Pension Institute of Nigeria.
He is an alumnus of the University of Oxford, UK, Lagos Business School, and the University of Lagos.