Oluwatoyin Edun - Group Managing Director

Background

Oluwatoyin Edun is the Group Managing Director of Fusion Group Limited. Starting her career in banking, she transited to entrepreneurship and is making an impact in a male dominated field of Real Estate. She is passionate about female development and empowerment and has also contributed to female empowerment through mentoring, coaching and being of service.

She continues to speak up for education and equal opportunities for the girl child and believes that women have so much to contribute in all spheres of life. According to Oluwatoyin, Women are collaborators and not competitors thereby deserving a seat at the table with men in the bid to create a better society.

Personal and Educational Background

Toyin is the first of five children (4 girls and 1 boy). She grew up in Ibadan and attended Bodija International School for her primary education, Queens School Ibadan for her secondary school education and later proceeded to International school Ibadan for A Levels.

She graduated from the University of Ibadan in 1997 with a second class degree Honors (Upper division) in Political Science, and bagged an MBA from Business School Netherlands. She attended several courses in prestigious business schools including; The Lagos Business School (Pan African University) and Queens Business School, Canada. She also attended several trainings and received outstanding awards in her career.

Professional and career history

She fell in love with the Banking Industry during her University days and this led her to starting her career at Eko International bank in 1999 from the Human Resources Department, she proceeded to FSB International Bank moving between the private and commercial banking units.

Her trajectory of success led to being head hunted for Metropolitan bank where she worked in treasury, retail, and commercial units. She later joined FCMB in 2005.

While at FCMB, she started as an Assistant Manager and rose to the position of Assistant General Manager having worked in different departments of the Bank. She took the audacious task of managing the fourth largest branch of the bank and turned it around to become the second most profitable and second biggest branch in terms of balance sheet.

Having achieved this feat, she was charged with the responsibility of setting up the public sector group for Lagos state, one of the largest cities in Africa which became a major niche for the Bank.

She retired from Banking at the age of 40 to start her own Real Estate and Hospitality Business. She bought into a family business in 2015 where she became a Director and subsequently took over the operations in Real Estate and Facilities Management, and also expanded her focus into co-working space with the setting up of her Virtual Hub.

She is an entrepreneur with keen interest in Tourism and Hospitality and has done quite a lot of work in hotel management, short letting as well as consultancy for both sectors.

Her foray into the Hospitality and Tourism sector is borne out of her personal passion to create memorable and lasting experiences for people. She has watched with so much sadness the falling standards in the sector over the years and took steps to contribute her own quota to investing and developing the sector by training the personnel working in these critical service roles. She would also be actively involved in tour transportation and management while developing various packages to attract diverse people.

Currently, she runs a group called the Fusion Group with subsidiaries in South Africa, UAE (Dubai) and the United Kingdom.

She has also received several awards both home and abroad in recognition of her passion and contribution to the real estate and hospitality sectors.