Hakeem is one of the key sponsors of the Jabi Lake Estate Development Project. His vision is to transform Jabi Lake into a new destination where world class business, commercial and residential facilities are harmoniously integrated with the surrounding landscape.

For over three decades, he has been a key player in the Nigerian economy through his participation in several businesses in the private sector particularly in the energy, finance and telecommunications.

Bello has almost 30 years of business experience after an international education in financial accounting and business in Nigeria, the UK and the USA.

Bello has occupied many senior management roles within banking (UBA, United Bank for Africa), development (NNDC, New Nigerian Development Ltd) and communications (Nigerian Television Authority, Kaduna) and currently sits on the board of Emerging Markets Telecommunications Services Ltd (EMTS) which trades in Nigeria under the Etisalat brand.

Isabella is an accomplished legal practitioner and professor of law with many published books and articles to her credit.

Isabella had a distinguished academic career with the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (NIALS) where she rose to become the Director of Research. She worked with the United Nations in Somalia with UNOSOM II. She has served as legal advisor, company secretary and chief compliance officer for one of Nigeria’s largest banks.

She is currently on the board of Emerging Markets Telecommunications Services Ltd (EMTS) which trades in Nigeria under the Etisalat brand.

Isabella leads the legal team on the Jabi Lake Development Project.

Idris is a trained economist with an extensive business consulting background. His core competences are in risk management, business & financial strategy and accounting.

He spent the first years of his career working at Deloitte and later at PricewaterhouseCoopers on a varied range of audit & assurance, risk management & business consulting projects. He joined MTN Nigeria in 2005 where he managed the revenue assurance team before leaving to join Metis Capital Partners in 2008. He earned his first degree in Economics & Statistics from the University of Benin and later studied Financial Strategy at the Said Business School, Oxford.

Alberto Bounous of roquebruneconsulting.

Alberto is the Development Director for the Jabi Lake Development Project.

Alberto has more than twenty years experience in international real estate. Prior to establishing roquebruneconsulting, he was a VP at Morgan Stanley responsible for Corporate Real Estate capital expenditure across the EMEA region.

Previously Alberto worked for global engineering firm ARUP responsible for the project and design management of large infrustructural and commercial projects across Europe. Before he worked on real estate developments in India and Malaysia.

Alberto is a qualified architect both in the UK and in Italy and a Member of the British Association of Project Managers. He graduated from the Turin School of Architecture and recently completed an Accounting and Finance course at Cambridge Judge Business School. 

Kayode was part of the founding team that established the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority, first in his capacity as Special Advisor to Nigeria's Ministry of Finance, and later as a portfolio manager leading to the SWF's efforts in energy infrastructure and real estate. Kayode previously worked with ContourGlobal, an emerging markets power developer backed by Reservoir Capital; RREEF a private equity affiliate of Deutsche Bank; and Weston Presidio Capital, a middle market private equity firm in Boston. Mr Ogunro holds an A.B. in economics from Harvard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.