Yewande Sadiku
Research shows that the performance of firms that have made female appointments to their CEO and CFO positions offers evidence that female executives have outperformed, relative to their male peers.
Firms with female CEOs and CFOs have produced superior stock price performance, compared to the market average. As multiple studies have shown, women make slightly better investors than men do. This is attributed to the fact that women tend to make less emotional moves than men do, they choose different and generally less risky investments than men do, and they trade less frequently than men do.
A 2018 study out of Warwick Business School in England shows that women investors outperform men by 1.8 percent. The study looked at 2,800 investors in the FTSE 100 and found that while men got returns of around 0.14 percent better than the FTSE, female investors got a return of 1.9 percent over the FTSE.
Today we celebrate an amazon in the finance industry. Yewande Sadiku has consistently been a trailblazer for over two decades in the finance industry. She is Executive Secretary/CEO of Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (“NIPC”), Nigeria’s foremost investment promotion agency. As such, Yewande Sadiku’s main objective for the past few years has been selling Nigeria as an investment destination.
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Until her NIPC appointment in 2016, she was the Executive Director Corporate and Investment Banking of Stanbic IBTC Group and previously served as Chief Executive of its investment banking business ensuring the fulfillment of business opportunities in Nigeria’s complex operating environment. She managed key relationships with regulators and several of Nigeria’s leading corporate and multinational clients.
She brought her wealth of funding to the film industry in 2014, raising funding for the production of Chimamanda Adichie’s book – Half of a Yellow Sun into a full feature film.
As a leader who passionately pursues concrete projects with real impact on their societies, she was awarded the Eisenhower Fellowship for International Leadership in May 2010 and was one of “35 International Women Under 35” featured in the October 2007 edition of World Business Magazine.
Yewande Sadiku is an inspiration and we are proud.