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Mrs. Bunmi Lawson is the pioneer Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of ACCION Microfinance Bank Limited. ACCION prides itself as a model microfinance bank with unique, well researched products and services provided to delight its customers. ACCION Microfinance Bank led by Bunmi Lawson commenced operations in May 2007 with one branch and 18 staff and has today grown to over 30,000 customers served in 10 branches with over 200 staff members. To date, Accion MFB has disbursed over N2bn in loans and has total assets of over N1.4bn. Its shareholders are ACCION Investments, Citibank, Ecobank, International Finance Corporation, SME Managers and Zenith Bank.
Mrs. Lawson holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the IESE Business School, University of Nevera and is an alumni of the Lagos Business School. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria and has attended several courses both locally and internationally at renowned institutions including Harvard Business School and INSEAD. She has presented several lectures locally and internationally in areas of capacity building for small scale industries and young entrepreneurs, SME Financing, Microfinance and has been part of special workgroups on various topics bothering on several aspects of the economy.
Prior to joining ACCION, Bunmi was the Executive Director of FATE Foundation Ltd/Gte, a leading business development service provider in Nigeria. She is also co-owner and Director of VLA Lawrence & Associates, a leading Human Resources services organization and has over 18 years experience in finance, insurance, marketing and auditing.
She is a mother with 2 lovely children.
