Mr Bonaventure Okhaimo
COO of the Development Bank of Nigeria
Mr Bonaventure Okhaimo is the COO of DBN. He has over 29 years of banking experience spread across local and international banks operating within Nigeria. He also serves as a non-executive Director with Impact Credit Guarantee Company Limited. His extensive industry experience includes branch operations, branch management, and leadership roles in Retail/SME Banking, Institutional Banking, Information Technology and Strategic Operations service delivery. He has attended various credit and banking attachment programs with Standard Bank Limited, Johannesburg, Standard Chartered Bank, Zimbabwe, and Kenya, and has completed executive management training programs at Queens Business School, Canada, Columbia Business School, New York, The Said Oxford Business School, UK, and Harvard Business School, Boston, USA. He holds an LLB from the University of Benin; a BL from Nigeria Law School, Lagos; a PGD in Business Administration from RSUST Port Harcourt; an MBA in Financial Management from FUT, Owerri; a Chartered Banker MBA from Bangor University, Wales; and a Master of Philosophy from UCAM, Catholic University of Murcia, Spain. He is both an Honorary and Associate Member of CIBN, a member of the Chartered Banker Institute, UK, NIM, and a Fellow of the ICA, Nigeria.