Premium Pension Appoints Kemi Oluwashina as Executive Director

The Board of Premium Pension Limited has appointed Mrs. Kemi Oluwashina as Executive Director Business Development South & Strategy.

According to the company, her appointment is expected to enhance the reach of the company in the Southern part of the country as well as to the decision making at the higher level closer to clients.

Oluwashina, holds a Bachelor of Pharmacy degree from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria and a Masters in Business Administration from Manchester Business School, United Kingdom. She also attended Leadership Development programs at Harvard Business School. She has over 18 years’ experience in Asset Management, Strategy and Investment consulting and has extensive institutional and retail. In his welcome remarks to the new director, the Chief Executive Officer Premium Pension, Mr. Umar Sanda Mairami, expressed confidence that the appointment of the new Executive Director would further strengthen the Company for Improved performance.

Mairami, attributed the unprecedented growth level achieved by the Company in the last decade, to its culture of being customer centric, gender sensitive and richly endowed with executives with multi-disciplinary talents. Prior to joining Premium Pension Limited, Oliwashina, was Executive Director at ARM Securities Ltd for 10years.

She joined ARM Pension Managers as a pioneer staff in 2006, headed the Investment Management team and later rose to become the Executive Director overseeing Investment Management, Business Development, Relationship Management, Human Resources and Risk Management functions of the organisation. While in ARM,she was an active member of the Technical Committee of Pension Fund Operators Association of Nigeria (PenOp) and was involved in the input/recommendation and review process of various versions of regulatory investment guidelines. She also worked as a research analyst and Portfolio Manager for 6 years before moving into Premium Pension Ltd.