Profile Of Kunle Elebute, Senior Partner, KPMG, Nigeria.

Kunle Elebute

Partner & Head, Advisory Services – Lead Partner, Financial Services Industry

Education and Qualifications

BA Economics, University of Manchester, United Kingdom.       

Fellow, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria 

Advanced Management Programme, Lagos Business School 

Accredited valuations specialist by the KPMG Global Valuations Committee Executive Member, KPMG Global Infrastructure and Projects Group, Africa

Years of Experience

30 Years

Relevant Experience

Kunle Elebute is Partner and Head of Advisory Practice of KPMG Advisory Services, Nigeria. 

He has been involved in advisory services for most of his working life.

Kunle qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1986 and has extensive experience in the areas of accounting, auditing, information systems audit and due diligence services working in Nigeria and West Africa.

 He was admitted as a Partner in 1996 and was made responsible for the privatisation and emerging markets practice in 1999. He led the Financial Advisory Services division which oversees corporate finance, transaction and forensic services for the West African sub-region from 2002 and became head of the Advisory Services Division in 2008. 

He has varied experience in project management, public sector reforms, privatisation,, valuation advisory, diagnostic reviews and assurance advisory services to both public sector and large private sector organisations, including infrastructure, information technology, transport, consumer markets, financial services, telecommunications and energy & natural resources companies.

Kunle has led several financial advisory services engagements for a significant number of domestic and international companies in connection with local and cross border transactions within the West African sub-region.

Kunle is an active member and former head of the Infrastructure Workgroup of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG), a think-tank responsible for brainstorming and articulating key policy and institutional reforms necessary to upgrade Nigerian’s infrastructure base.

He acted as Quality Assurance Partner on the crafting of an overarching strategy, articulating imperatives for the Nigerian financial services industry to act as a growth catalyst for the Nigerian economy tagged FSS 2020, which included providing advisory support for the project management office.

He served as Project Director for a team of financial and accounting consultants working in conjunction with the International Finance Corporation on the privatisation of the Lagos State Water Corporation.

He was also the Project Director to the World Bank as part of a multi-disciplinary team of consultants responsible for the comprehensive evaluation of the Nigerian petroleum sector.

Project Partner on the facilitation of a study tour of major operating and regulatory institutions on non-interest banking in Malaysia. The study tour was organised by KPMG Nigeria and Malaysia for the Central Bank of Nigeria’s Committee on Regulatory Framework for Non-interest Banking. The tour also incorporated capacity development for Central Bank officials on Islamic banking.

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