Mr Akinleye Olagbende is currently the Head Legal and Compliance at Azura Power West Africa Limited. Prior to this role, he served as General Counsel at Geregu Power Plc, and at Forte Oil Plc he was the General Counsel and Company Secretary at Forte Oil Plc from 2012 to 2019.
He is a graduate of the University of Sussex in Brighton, He graduated from the Nigerian law school in 2004. Responsible for the overall legal, compliance and Secretarial functions, Mr Olagbende has over 16 years of legal experience in corporate, commercial and Company law and Practice. Mr Olagbende started his career working as a litigation lawyer in the firm of Olatunde Adejuyigbe and Co and then moved to the United Kingdom where he worked in the compliance functions for Goldman Sachs Asset Managements and PIMCO Europe.
Mr Olagbende is a member of the Nigerian Bar Association as well as the Society for corporate Governance in addition to many other Societal associations.