Apostle Hayford I. Alile (OFR, B.A, MBA) - Chairman

Apostle Hayford I. Alile began his career as an Economic and Financial Consultant to Louis Berger Inc. East Orange, New Jersey, USA in 1968. Between 1969 and 1972, he served as Assistant Director, Rutgers University Entrepreneurial Development Centre, New Jersey and Rutgers Minority Investment Co. Inc. He worked as an Investment Adviser/Broker with Investors Diversified Services Inc, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 1972-1973. In 1973, he returned to Nigeria to head the Management Consulting Department of the Centre for Management Development, Lagos and was from there appointed the Director-General and Chief Executive of The Nigeria Stock Exchange in 1979. He retired from that position in 1999 and was in the same year, appointed to the Board of the Central Bank of Nigeria. He is also on the Board of the Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Plc. At the Centre for Management Development, he was responsible for the establishment of the Institute of Management Consultants (IMCON).

A life member of the Nigerian Economic Society, he is a fellow of several professional bodies including the Nigeria Institute of Management (NIM), Institute of Directors (IOD) and Chartered Institute of Secretaries and Company Administrators. Apostle Alile holds the honorary degree of Doctor of Science (DSc.) from Benue State University, Makurdi, Nigeria and is also a recipient of the Nigeria National Honors Award of the Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR) and National Productivity Order of Merit (NPOM).

Born on the 24th of April 1940, Apostle Hayford Alile attended University of Ibadan briefly as a Scholar in Physics and thereafter proceeded to Howard University, Washington D.C. where he earned his B.A degree in Economics and Mathematics. He later attended Rutgers Graduate School of Management, New Jersey, USA for his MBA. Apostle Alile has authored several books in management development in Nigerian and on the capital market. Apostle Alile was the Secretary General of the then National Union of Nigerian Students (NUNS) and the Treasurer/Trustee of the Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) for over twelve years. He is happily married and currently head of a large Church in Nigeria, the St. Joseph’s Chosen Church of God International.