Mrs Adebola Falade is an Accounting professional with over 27 years post qualification experience. She is a graduate of Accounting from the University of Lagos, and is also a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria.
She is currently the Group Chief Finance Officer of Eat ‘N Go Africa, the franchise operators of Dominos Pizza quick service restaurants in Africa. Other brands in the group include Cold Stone Creamery and Pink Berry Yoghurt.
Adebola was previously the Chief Finance Officer of Dangote Sugar Refinery Plc, a dominant player in Sugar industry in Nigeria. She previously served as the Chief Finance Officer of Ecart Internet Services Ltd (Jumia), one of the leading companies in Ecommerce in Nigeria. Prior to that, Adebola had worked for Guinness Nigeria Plc (a Diageo company) as the Controls Compliance and Ethics Director of Guinness Nigeria Plc where she provided strategic leadership as the chief risk officer of the organization in charge of enterprise risk management, internal audit and compliance in fulfilment of the Sarbanes Oxley Act, and the UK Bribery Act, amongst others.
She also held various senior Finance and control roles. These included the Head of Supply Finance in charge of the financial control, accounting and reporting of the supply chain and brewing operations of the company, across various operating locations.
Before joining Guinness Nigeria Plc, Adebola had served in finance and control roles in Afprint Nigeria Plc, Nigerian Bottling Company Ltd, and Standard Trust Bank Ltd (now United Bank for Africa Plc) .