Alex Osho

Executive Director/CFO, Waltersmith

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Alex Osho serves as Executive Director/CFO at Waltersmith Petroman Oil Limited and has 20 years’ experience in energy, M&A advisory, corporate & project finance, restructuring, and capital markets. Prior to joining Waltersmith Petroman as CFO in 2019, Alex served as Associate Director & Head of Advisory & Equity Capital Markets at FBNQuest where he led the US$1billion restructuring of a large commercial bank and advised the FGN on the privatization of key power assets. Alex also previously served as VP (Investment Banking, Oil & Gas, Power & Utilities and Emerging Markets M&A) at Barclays Africa where he advised a Nigerian upstream oil company on a key asset acquisition. Alex holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting (1st class honours) from the University of Benin, Nigeria, graduating as the best student in the department and faculty. He also holds an MBA (with Distinction) from INSEAD where he graduated on the Dean’s List. He is also a CFA charter holder, a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) and a winner of several ICAN national merit awards.