Anambra State Governor, Mr Willie Obiano has appointed the youngest Commissioner in Nigeria.
30-year-old Mark Okoye possesses a unique combination of experience
spanning governance, policy formulation, public sector financing, public
budget analysis and corporate finance. Prior to his current role, he
served in his current capacity for twenty (20) months during the last
administration.
Mark also served as a senior member of the investment
banking division at Afrinvest (West Africa) Limited where he was
instrumental in executing numerous capital raising and financial
advisory transactions. Key transactions include the restructuring of UBA
Plc in line with new Central Bank of Nigeria banking guidelines (2012),
US$80mm debt and equity capital raising for Kano Shopping Mall (2012),
the first and largest shelf registration in Nigeria, US$2.3bn Lagos
State Government bond issuance program (2011).
He holds a B.Sc. Finance from the prestigious George Washington
University, Washington, DC, USA and is an alumnus of several executive
education courses and programmes, including Harvard Kennedy School,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, Euromoney, Dubai, UAE.
Source: Ifeanyi Njoku