Jacqueline Quamina is an accomplished attorney at law and corporate leader with over 40 years of experience in governance, banking, finance, and corporate law across the Caribbean. A former Executive Director, Group General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary of Republic Bank Limited and Republic Financial Holdings Limited, she played a key role in conceptualizing and structuring RFHL as a regional banking entity.
She has served as Chairman of the National Insurance Board of Trinidad and Tobago and as a director on leading boards including TSTT, TTNGL, Unilever Caribbean, the Eastern Caribbean Financial Holdings, Republic Bank Barbados, the Trinidad and Tobago Stock Exchange, and the T&T Chamber of Commerce. She continues to contribute her expertise as a non-executive director of Republic Bank (T&T) Limited, and on several other boards including the Bocas Lit Fest.
Ms. Quamina holds law and business degrees from the University of the West Indies and the University of London, is a graduate of the ABA Stonier Graduate School of Banking and Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Programme, and is an Accredited Director.
Recognized for her leadership and service, she was awarded Fellow of the Institute of Banking and Finance of Trinidad and Tobago in 2016, and in 2024 was honoured by the International Women’s Forum in New York as one of eight global women leaders demonstrating “innovative, tenacious, and transformational leadership.”
Femi Olubanwo is a founding partner of Banwo & Ighodalo, a full-service law firm which has grown to be one of the largest and best-known law firms in Nigeria.
He graduated with an LLB (honours) degree in law from the University of Lagos in June 1981 and was admitted to the Nigerian Bar in July 1982.
After a short stint at the Lagos State Ministry of Justice, he joined the Corporate and Commercial law firm Chris O. Okunowo & Co in 1983. In 1989, he established Femi Banwo & Co., a law firm which later morphed into Banwo & Ighodalo, a partnership which he co-founded in 1991. The firm has since grown from two partners and one associate to more than 90 lawyers including 17 partners, with offices in Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt.
Banwo & Ighodalo is well known for its many high-profile transactions in its specialized areas of Capital Markets, Corporate and Project Financing, Mergers & Acquisitions and Energy. The Firm’s other practice areas include Investment, Corporate and Commercial transactions, Mining, Telecommunications, Information Technology, Intellectual Property, Privatization, Real Estate, Banking, Shipping, Aviation and International Trade, Labour and Employment laws. A Media & Entertainment practice has recently been established and is growing.
Femi practices largely in Investments, Banking and Corporate Finance, Project Finance, Mining, M&A, Corporate Restructuring and Intellectual Property (IP). He is especially versed in Project and Corporate Finance and has been engaged in a very wide variety of in-country and international Financing transactions over the last 30 years. He has led or participated in many of the Firm’s important financing transactions. He has advised several multinational and blue-chip companies in various sectors including Pharmaceuticals, Telecommunications, Property Development, Technology and Manufacturing. He heads the IP and Technology practice, covering all aspects of IP including trademarks, copyright, patents, industrial designs, and other ancillary matters such as entertainment and media, and Technology.
He is often cited as one of the world’s Leading Lawyers, particularly in the areas of Banking, Finance, and Intellectual Property by many international legal rating publications such as Chambers Global, Who’s Who Legal and the IFLR 1000.
Femi has written many articles and frequently delivers papers and gives presentations on subjects in his core practice areas. He is a member of various law and business-related professional bodies. He was, until recently the President of the Intellectual Property Law Association of Nigeria (IPLAN). He is also a member of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA); the Institute of Trademark Attorneys (ITMA); the International Trademark Association (INTA); and the Institute of Directors (IOD);
He has also been active in the public sector where he has served the Government of Nigeria in several economic sector reform committees. He was appointed a member of the Bureau of Public Enterprises’ Solid Minerals Sector Steering Committee (2000) by the National Council on Privatization, the apex body charged with responsibility for the implementation of the Nigerian government’s privatization and commercialization programme. The committee was to formulate sector reform proposals for the sustainable development of the solid minerals sector. He was the chairman of the legal and regulatory framework subcommittee. He was reappointed into the reconstituted committee in 2005 and participated actively in the review of different drafts of the bill that led to the promulgation of a new mining code, the Minerals and Mining Act 2007.
Femi was also resource person for the legal and regulatory framework subcommittee of the Presidential Committee on Solid Minerals Development (2002). The committee produced the seven-year (from 2003 to 2009) strategic action plan for Solid Minerals Development in Nigeria. In addition, he was a member of the Presidential Technical Committee on the Development of Coal Production in Nigeria (2003) whose mandate was to resuscitate the commercial production of coal.
He has also served as Chairman of a Committee established by the Ministry of Finance to formulate and draft a Code of Governance/Ethics for Capital Market Regulators; as well as a committee established by the Securities and Exchange Commission for the development of the Bonds sector of the Nigerian capital market.
He is or has been, a director of many companies (both listed on the Stock Exchange and private) operating in diverse sectors of the Nigerian economy and serves as chairman of the Board of Directors of several of them. He also serves on the boards of several not-for-profit organizations, particularly in the area of education, as well as sickle cell support and advocacy.
Femi’s parents were both teachers and the passion for education runs through his veins as well. He serves as a member of the Board of Governors of two highly reputable educational institutions, as well as a Foundation for the education of brilliant but indigent scholars. He is himself, a consummate teacher and adviser and is passionate about seeing young Nigerians grow and become agents of change in our nation.
His hobbies are reading, driving, travel, snooker and, recently, golf. He and his late wife are blessed with a daughter, two sons, a son-in-law and two grandchildren.
Keith is a board advisor and consultant, specialising in Strategy Design and Implementation, Operational Effectiveness and Corporate Governance. He is an assessor to the Good Governance Awards, run by Carmichael in Ireland for the charity and not for profit sector which recognises the outstanding Annual Reports for organisations in this sector.
A founding advisor of the Global Advisory Alliance, Keith previously spent over twenty years working for US technology and financial services companies, including Veritas Technologies, Gen Digital, GE Capital and JP Morgan Chase.
He has over fifteen years’ experience as a non-executive director with charities and not for profit entities, also chairing their Audit and Risk Committees. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland and earned his primary degree in business from Trinity College in Dublin.
Philip is currently an Independent Board Member of Hawkamah Institute for Corporate Governance. Previously to this he was a Director and Advisor of Governance at Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance which is based in Geneva, Switzerland and Senior Advisor of Corporate Governance at the International Finance Corporation.
Philip is a widely acknowledged expert on corporate governance and was closely involved with the internationally-acclaimed 2002 King Report on Corporate Governance for South Africa. He was also instrumental in producing the Commonwealth Guidelines on corporate governance and served as an expert resource on corporate governance for the NEPAD initiative in Africa. He has been conferred with an honorary doctorate in business administration from the Oxford Brookes University in the UK in recognition of his contributions to corporate governance.
Philip Armstrong has had a distinguished and varied career in executive and senior management in a number of South Africa’s prominent listed companies and has served with distinction on a number of boards of companies, governing bodies of professional institutions, and policy initiatives in South Africa and internationally. He continues to serve on a number of advisory bodies of prominent institutions around the world and is regularly cited in leading journals and publications for his work on corporate governance around the world.
Katarzyna is a Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law at the University of Glasgow since 2024. She is a Corporate and Financial Law Deputy Subject Head and LLM Corporate and Financial Law Pathway Co-Director. Katarzyna is a member of the Corporate and Financial Law Research Group and also Just Transition Research Cluster at Glasgow.
Katarzyna’s research concentrates on accountability of the board of directors, sustainable development and company law in comparative dimension more broadly. She also has research experience in financial law and financial markets.
In 2014 and 2023 Katarzyna was on a scholarship at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, Germany.
Chałaczkiewicz-Ładna obtained her PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 2016. Her doctoral research was comparative in nature, addressing the extent to which UK, German and Delaware law imposes obligations on directors to take into account the long-term consequences of their decisions. It is the first piece of research to provide illustrations of long-term managerial decision-making.
Katarzyna graduated from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland in 2007 (combined LLB and Master’s Degree) and she studied for a year at the University of Bayreuth, Germany (Socrates-Erasmus Programme). She holds an LLM in Commercial Law from the University of Edinburgh (2008). Her masters thesis: ‘Challenging the resolutions of the shareholders’ meeting in the Polish and German Public limited company’ received 2nd prize at the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Adam Mickiewicz in 2008 and 1st prize for the best dissertation on company law, organised by the Polish Commercial Law Review Journal in 2008.
Katarzyna is a Visiting Lecturer at the Leuphana University (Lüneburg, Germany). She is also a reviewer of funding proposals/grant applications for the National Science Centre (Poland).Katarzyna is a Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law at the University of Glasgow since 2024. She is a Corporate and Financial Law Deputy Subject Head and LLM Corporate and Financial Law Pathway Co-Director. Katarzyna is a member of the Corporate and Financial Law Research Group and also Just Transition Research Cluster at Glasgow. Katarzyna’s research concentrates on accountability of the board of directors, sustainable development and company law in comparative dimension more broadly. She also has research experience in financial law and financial markets. In 2014 and 2023 Katarzyna was on a scholarship at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, Germany. Chałaczkiewicz-Ładna obtained her PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 2016. Her doctoral research was comparative in nature, addressing the extent to which UK, German and Delaware law imposes obligations on directors to take into account the long-term consequences of their decisions. It is the first piece of research to provide illustrations of long-term managerial decision-making. Katarzyna graduated from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland in 2007 (combined LLB and Master’s Degree) and she studied for a year at the University of Bayreuth, Germany (Socrates-Erasmus Programme). She holds an LLM in Commercial Law from the University of Edinburgh (2008). Her masters thesis: ‘Challenging the resolutions of the shareholders’ meeting in the Polish and German Public limited company’ received 2nd prize at the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Adam Mickiewicz in 2008 and 1st prize for the best dissertation on company law, organised by the Polish Commercial Law Review Journal in 2008. Katarzyna is a Visiting Lecturer at the Leuphana University (Lüneburg, Germany). She is also a reviewer of funding proposals/grant applications for the National Science Centre (Poland).
Petrus Gimbad (Datuk) was a Partner of Ernst & Young (EY) with primarily the Advisory Practice in Malaysia and Vietnam. He had also served as Quality Director for the Far East Practice. Prior to EY, he was an Accountant with PETRONAS Group.
Since retirement, he continues to serve the Government in Malaysia in strategic advisory and as board member. He currently sits on the board of The Inland Revenue Board and was on the board of the Energy Commission and State Government Linked Companies in the electricity and financial sector. He also sits as member of Board of Companies where he is currently Board Chairman of a listed company, Life Water Berhad, and has been board member of companies in the plantation and property development sector. He has also served as board member of Not for Profit organisation, Good Shepherd Services, which focusses on socio-economic upliftment of undeserved women, youth and children.
Petrus is a Fellow of The Chartered Association of Certified Accountants (United Kingdom) and a Chartered Accountant of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants. He holds a MBA (Bath), Masters in Advanced Business Practice (South Australia) and a Post Graduate Diploma in Systems Thinking in Practice (Milton Keynes). He also has Certificates in Quality Assurance Review (IIA), Sustainability and Development related studies (Milton Keynes) and Scenario Planning (Oxford Said Business School).
