Bayo Olugbemi is the Managing Director/CEO of First Registrars & Investor Services Ltd (Formerly a Subsidiary of First Bank PLC), a position he has held for 20 years now.

He has extensive experience spanning about 38 years in the areas of Investment Banking, Portfolio Management, Share Data Management, Securities Depository, Stockbroking as well as Mutual & Pension Fund Administration. He is a turnaround specialist and has led several initiatives that positively impacted the Share Registration Industry in particular and the Nigerian Capital Market in general. Over the past 38 years, Bayo had worked at different levels in Union Bank of Nigeria Plc, Rims Merchant Bank Ltd, United Securities Ltd, Diamond Bank Plc (now part of Access Bank Plc) and NAL Merchant Bank Plc (Now Part of Sterling Bank Plc) before joining the First Bank Group in January 2000. Bayo has served and still serving on several committees of Central Bank Of Nigeria, Securities & Exchange Commission, The Nigerian Stock Exchange, Institute of Directors- Nigeria, CIBN, ICSAN, ICMR etc. He is on the Governing Councils of The Institute of Capital Market Registrars as the Immediate Past President/Chairman of Council, The Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria as the President/ Chairman of Council. Prior to that, He was the 1st Vice President of the Institute. He is a Past Treasurer of Lagos Chamber of Commerce & Industry and still serving on the Council. He was a two-term Chairman of CIBN, Lagos State Branch, and has also served as The National Treasurer and 2nd Vice President of CIBN respectively. He is a 1991 alumnus of the University of Lagos with a bachelor’s degree in Accounting.