Fiona Ahimie

Fiona Ahimie is the Managing Director of First Securities. She has a distinguished investment banking background that began with Stanbic IBTC Stockbrokers. She joined First Capital (formerly FBN Capital) in 2014 as the Head of Sales Trading and a member of the International/Local Institutional Client Sales Team.

Fiona previously served as the Managing Director of African Alliance Securities Nigeria for African Alliance, a Pan African Investment Banking Group, in May 2015, where she was responsible for increasing trading market share, existing customer base, and international/local transaction traffic. She later joined First Securities in October 2016 to head the Equities Brokerage function, with the responsibilities of expanding the clientele base, both locally and globally, as well as facilitating transaction flow to increase the firm’s market share, earning the company a spot on the top 5 securities league table in 2018.

Fiona is a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers of Nigeria’s (NASD) audit committee and a Council Member of the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers of Nigeria. She also serves on the board of Purple Money Microfinance Bank and is a newly appointed member of the Lagos Business School’s Curriculum Management and Learning Committee. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers of Nigeria (FCS), an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ACA), and she has an MBA from Lagos Business School as well as a Diploma from IESE Business School in Spain.