Mr. Bassey-Eyo is a visionary business leader with expertise in the development and strategic growth of start-up enterprises in the not-for-profit, education, finance, consulting and tech sectors, coupled with an impressive operational background in corporate treasury, change, transformation and project leadership in international tier-one finance environments.

A Fellow Chartered Accountant and Corporate Treasurer (AMCT), he is a portfolio entrepreneur operating in the Sub Saharan Africa and in particular Nigeria. Ani is the CEO of the LANI Group which comprises of investment holdings in diverse industry sectors such as learning and development (Axiom Learning Solutions which he co-founded: he leads business development and programme development and execution in education transformation and skills development assignments); Agro processing (Sehai Foods, a company which he also co-founded) as well as entities in the professional services, tax management and financial training domains.

His professional career trajectory (prior to the launch of his entrepreneurial career) includes strategic and operational leadership in functional areas such as corporate treasury where he achieved the implemented of a Pan European liquidity management framework as Group Treasury Manager of Polo Ralph Lauren Europe as far back as 2003. He is also an expert on IFRS implementation and has been involved in several large scale change initiatives in global financial institutions and corporations.