AREMO Olajide Samson

Jide AREMO is the Managing Director/CEO of SUPREME Microfinance Bank. A Banker and a Chartered Accountant of many years of cognate experience in diverse economies. These would be brought to bear in driving the policies and businesses of the Bank for quick and durable results. Born in Ogbagi Akoko, Ondo State, Nigeria on 09/12/1960. He is married with children. He attended the University of Lagos where he graduated in June 1983 with B. Sc Business Administration. He was trained in Deloitte Haskins & Sells (now Deloitte Akintola Williams & Co.), a reputable firm of Chartered Accountants worldwide, where he qualified as Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (ACA) in May 1987. He is also an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (ACTI), and a member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN). He has travelled extensively all over the world for professional trainings, seminars and workshops in virtually every aspects of the Banking profession. A member of the Best and Brightest African Bankers program for the year 2000, and Alumni of the following foreign training institutions: INSEAD, Fontainebleau FRANCE; Chase Manhattan Bank Credit School, New York, USA; The Mellon Bank, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; The World Bank and EX-IM Bank, both in Washington D C, USA; and Finance sans Frontier in Paris, FRANCE. Few months after qualification as a Chartered Accountant, he commenced his career in Banking with the Corporate Finance Department of the then First City Merchant Bank Limited in October 1987. He also worked in the Management team of another Merchant Bank and a finance company in Lagos till later in the year 1996 when he joined the Banque Internationale du Benin in the Republic of Benin, where he put in slightly over 12 years of banking career development before living the position of Head of Credit & Risk Management to form the SUPREME Microfinance Bank Ltd with other pioneer shareholders in the Bank. Jide has great passion for the development and marketing of financial products as a tool for economic development and general emancipation of the people from the poverty levels. He believes that rather than just pity the poor, they should be thought the virtues in INTEGRITY & DILIGENCE and then EMPOWER them to walk out of what they do not want i.e. POVERTY! He communicates fluently in both English and French languages. He has been of service to the community and the general public in numerous capacities locally and internationally.