Executive Management
MUHAMMED AWWAL SALIHU
Group CEO
Muhammed is the Group CEO of Credent Capital and Advisory Limited and Chief Investment Officer of its Credent Investment Managers Limited – it’s Fund Management subsidiary. Up until June 2024 he was a Director and Head of Abuja & Northern Nigeria Region for KPMG in West Africa. Prior to this role, he was a Manager in the Deal Origination Team of Afreximbank in Cairo, Egypt. In this position, he helped to originate and finance deals in excess of $3 billion on the African continent. He also managed the Russian Desk of Afreximbank, where he oversaw the inflow of hundreds of millions of dollars in trade finance lines of credit from Russian banks and the Russian Export Centre.
Muhammed’s career in financial services started in Diamond Bank where he was a Personal Banking Officer for about two years. He subsequently moved to KPMG Professional Services where he trained and qualified as a Chartered Accountant. Thereafter, he joined Sigma Pensions as a Senior Manager and Head of Investments where he oversaw the management of pension assets in excess of $800 million at the time. He eventually left to set up a boutique financial advisory firm which he ran for about 6 years before joining Afreximbank in Cairo.
Muhammed is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) and has completed an MBA programme at the prestigious London Business School.
BASHIR ABDULRAHMAN ACCA
Executive Director
ACCA Bashir is the Executive Director of the firm. He holds a Second Class (Honors) Upper Division in Applied Accounting from Oxford Brookes University and is a chartered accountant. Bashir has a background in investment banking and oil & gas trading. His investment banking experience covers equity capital raising where he participated in raising over $3 billion, public sector advisory,deal structuring and financial advisory.
