Tony Gbenga Olaleye
Tony is the Managing Partner of Olaleye Olugbenga & Co. (Chartered Accountants and also the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of 3Dees Solutions Consult Limited. He is a distinguished Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (FCA), a Fellow of the Chartered Taxation Institute of Nigeria (FCTI) and a John Maxwell (JMT) certified coach. Tony had excellent professional accounting and consulting training, and robust experience with multinational companies spanning more than 31 years.
His career started with extensive exposure in Audit, Tax & Management Consulting with international firms of Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Arthur Andersen (now KPMG in Nigeria) spanning over 7 years. He obtained his license to practice as a Chartered Accountant in April 1992 and practised for a short while as a young Accountant. His drive for value creation motivated his move from accounting practice to Industry line Finance in 1996 as Group Financial Controller for Frigoglass Industries (a subsidiary of Coca-Cola Bottlers in Nigeria), covering five (5) companies including the biggest Glass manufacturers in West Africa.
Tony had a very successful 12 year career with Diageo Plc, the parent company of Guinness Nigeria Plc (GNPlc), working across Africa and the United Kingdom, which further gave him deep and extensive international experience. Until recently, he was the Chief Financial Officer for South Atlantic Petroleum Ltd. (SAPETRO), an indigenous Upstream Oil & Gas company in Nigeria for over 6 years to April 2016. He was in various Senior Management positions for more than 26 years.
Tony’s skills set is quite extensive covering almost all areas of Accounting, Auditing, Taxation, Corporate Finance, Receiverships & Liquidations, Management Consulting, Projects Evaluation, Internal Audit, Risk Management, Controls & Compliance, Strategic Planning and People Development. He’s also culturally sensitive to enabling environment and the people.
Tony had his first degree in 1984 from the University of Calabar and was the best graduating student for his Department. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1989, became a Fellow of ICAN in 1997 and also a Fellow of the Chartered Taxation Institute (FCTI) of Nigeria in 2011. He had two international mini-MBA Certifications from CWC School for Energy and American Management Association (AMA), USA. Tony has attended various international and in-country Management Development Programmes with renowned organisations such as PetroSkills USA, Lagos Business School (LBS), Management Centre Europe (MCE), to mention a few.
