Roland Igbinoba

As its co- founder, Femi Osemwegie has positioned Pison Housing Company as one of the fastest growing real estate investment advisory companies in Sub-Saharan Africa. Femi led the development of a state-of-the-art technology system, raised operational capital, and was instrumental in securing Pison as an OPIC EDN loan originator. Femi has more than 15 years of experience as an information technology (IT) professional, with an extensive background in infrastructure and systems development.

Relocating to the Boston area, Femi achieved the gold standard in technology as a Microsoft-certified Systems Engineer. Intuitively, he sidestepped the high-paying computer profession of the early 1990s, opting to create a consulting company. Mortek Solutions, Inc. designs and develops leading technology solutions for Fortune 500s and government agencies in Massachusetts. Starting with almost zero capital, Femi expanded Mortek Solutions to more than $5 million in gross revenues. Over the last seven years, the company has employed more than 40 consultants.

While Mortek Solutions grew, so did Femi’s passion to bring affordable housing to his homeland. A keen observer of the successes and failures of the U.S. real estate market, Femi attended local and international real estate finance development programs to broaden his expertise. He gained considerable experience from Euromoney Bond Investment Courses, Harvard Business School (HBS) REITS Workshops, the Real Estate Investment Conference (China), and the Builders Show in (Orlando, Florida).

Currently, Femi is leading an effort to create one of the largest affordable housing deployment technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Femi is currently serving as a non – Executive Director in Pison Housing Company.

Omolola Igbinoba is a co-founder of Pison Housing Company. She has over 12 years post qualification experience in sales, general management and educational administration. Having garnered experience from Josef Ross Limited and AG Leventis Plc. At AG Leventis Plc, Omolola was responsible for client relationship management and market development for the sales of Mercedes Benz in Nigeria.

Currently she serves as an Educational Administrator with Corona Trust Council, Ikoyi. She has attended several local and international training programs including AISA in Ghana and the University of Cambridge, London.

She is currently serving as a non–Executive Director in Pison Housing Company.

Ihuoma Ugenyi began her career at Michigan State University where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering in December 2002. After working with various research departments within the educational realm, she saw a unique need to be business minded and astute in addition to being technologically savvy. This propelled her to a decision to further her education with Northeastern University where she attained a Master’s in Business Administration with a concentration in Supply Chain Management and Investment Finance in August 2006.

While attaining her MBA, Ihuoma worked as an investment risk analyst and as a fund appraisal consultant producing portfolio risk-related projects by completing quantitative analytical assignments, prepared and analyzed risk attribution for fixed income and equity portfolios, analyzed mutual fund and investment portfolios using quantitative software applications and devised solutions for automating data accumulation and analysis. Ihuoma has also worked in a leading multi-national pharmaceutical company ensuring that finance operations are performed excellently. She also has experience in the negotiations of collaborative financial deals.

Since working with Pison Housing Company in 2007, Ihuoma successfully facilitated most of the preliminary work on the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) relationship with the company under the EDN program. This is the first response from OPIC to any company in Nigeria under this program. Ihuoma also collaborately coordinated the International Housing Finance Workshop (IHFW) 2007 program.

As a result of her experience in both the engineering field and the various industries in the business sector, Ihuoma has honed her managerial and communicative skills in which she can seamlessly explain the technicalities of housing development to the business savvy and just as easily analyze key financial structures to the housing developer without skipping a beat.

Hyelni has gained considerable knowledge and experience in the real estate and housing sector having been part of some of the leading institutions in the sector.

A graduate of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, she had earlier worked with the Federal Capital Development Authority, Abuja and Post-Service Housing Directorate, a mortgage and housing firm which structures and provides housing and mortgages to the Nigerian Army personnel. She gained firsthand knowledge on how to develop site plans, being part of the team responsible for the FCT city being planned and implemented, and how to best structure mortgages to enable housing to be more accessible.

She leads financial advisory department of Pison Housing Company where she is involved in real estate investment structuring and management, development of business plans and project management, research and development of real estate products, and property mortgage structuring.

Seun is a graduate of Accounting and Economics from the University of Reading, UK. After leaving the banking sector for Pison Housing Company last year, he has been involved in various projects which include but not limited to the structuring of mortgage notes to the tune of NGN5 Billion in favour of one of the oil multinationals for an estate development, creating a business plan for a proposed precast factory in Nigeria and being involved in the research team for the Lagos housing report.

His strength lies in the area of financial advisory and research development and he is involved in the area of creation and modifying of business plans for new and existing businesses, advising on real estate projects and providing feasibility studies as part of research findings for viable projects, and structuring of mortgage products.

Seun is presently a Real Estate Sector Analyst in Pison Housing Company.