Ekemini Akpan

Ekemini Akpan

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Trade Finance Specialist at Euro Exim Bank, BSc Business Management, Trade Finance
Lagos, Nigeria

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  • Excelerate
    Prompt Engineering Research and Integration Intern
    Excelerate
    May 2025 - Current (1 year 5 months)
  • Excelerate
    Innovation Consultant
    Excelerate
    May 2025 - Jun 2025 (2 months)
    Conducted Market Research, investigated Innovation Service Areas with focus on Sustainability & Green Transformation, Communication Network innovation and Artificial intelligence Consulting etc
  • Euro Exim Bank
    Trade Finance Specialist
    Euro Exim Bank
    Oct 2024 - Current (2 years)
  • W
    Finance Manager
    Westgate Urban Renewal
    Sep 2022 - Feb 2024 (1 year 6 months)
    Westgate Urban Renewal has a 9km IKOT ADA IDEM-EDIENE IKOT OBIO IMO-IKOT OKU IKONO ROAD CONSTRUCTION PROJECT in Ibiono IBOM/Uyo LGAs from the Akwa Ibom State Government. I had responsibility for vetting and making all payments on the project, including processing all payments and revenues. The value of the road project supervised by me stood at over N700 million
  • Westgate Lifecare
    Head, Strategic Business Unit
    Westgate Lifecare
    May 2022 - Feb 2024 (1 year 10 months)
    I supervised a team of four (4) people in the TECH-HUB unit of Westgate Lifecare. This unit had a monthly sales of over N8 million when I started in 2022. This sales figure increased to over N13 million monthly as at February, 2024
  • W
    Finance Manager
    Westgate Global Trust Limited
    Feb 2020 - Feb 2024 (4 years 1 month)
    Handled finance for the construction and equipping of an over N2 billion Dakkadda Skills Acquisition Center (DASAC) Project commissioned by the Akwa Ibom State Government in Ikot Ada Idem, Ibiono Ibom LGA.
  • W
    Transactions Analyst
    Westgate Global Trust Ltd
    Feb 2014 - Feb 2024 (10 years 1 month)
    Monitors clients' transactions for compliance with payments at a financial services firm that provides correspondence banking services, applying Generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).
    Effective monitoring of cash status in all company banks to ensure compliance with mandates and counter-party limits.
    Provision of active support to the team during foreign exchange purchases and sales.
    Practical monitoring of all transactions to ensure payments are made timely and proper ledger posting of the transactions.
    Efficient allocation of transactions and receipts across banks
  • S
    Teacher
    Sacred Heart of Jesus Academy
    Nov 2012 - Oct 2013 (1 year)
    Taught English to Senior secondary school students.
    Taught Economics to Senior secondary school students.
    Coached the students on debating and public speaking
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  • The Bridge Academy
    The Bridge Academy
    The Bridge Academy
    Jan 2014 - Dec 2014 (1 year)
    I was taught economics, understanding financial statements, business modelling, business planning, financial analysis, quantitative techniques of analysis, etc.
  • University of Uyo
    BSc (Hons, Business Management
    University of Uyo
    Jan 2007 - Dec 2011 (5 years)
    ●Graduated top of the class with Three awards for Best Graduating Student 2010/2011 for the Faculty of Business Administration courtesy of the University of Uyo, Best Graduating student of Department of Business Management 2011 and Best Departmental Project from Julius Berger Nigeria Plc,

    ●Took courses in International Finance, Financial Management, Entrepreneurial Development, Human Resource Management, Business Policy and Strategic Management, etc.

    ●Project topic: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND FIRM PERFORMANCE: A STUDY OF SELECTED BANKS IN NIGERIA; Seminar topic: THE ROLE OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS IN RESOLVING AGENCY CONFLICTS; and participated in an online portfolio trading competition organized by BusinessDay Newspapers
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    National Examination Council (NECO) O'level certificate
    Federal Science College Ogoja Cross River State
    Jan 1997 - Dec 2000 (4 years)
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    Lutheran High School Obot Idim
    Lutheran High School Obot Idim
    Jan 1995 - Dec 1997 (3 years)
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  • Moniepoint Group
    NDPA/GDPR Privacy Gap Assessment public Remote experience
    Moniepoint Group
    Aug 2026
    Conducted a comparative gap assessment of Moniepoint's published privacy policy against NDPA 2023 and GDPR requirements, identifying specific documentation inconsistencies (including outdated regulatory referencing and fragmented multi-entity policy language) alongside genuine security-control strengths
  • Paystack
    Flutterwave
    Privacy & Data Protection Analysis
    Paystack, Flutterwave
    Jul 2026
    Independently conducted a comparative privacy-control analysis of Paystack's and Flutterwave's public privacy policies against ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and GDPR/NDPA principles
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    BEST GRADUATING STUDENT, FACULTY OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, 2010/2011
    UNIVERSITY OF UYO NIGERIA
    Nov 2014
    At the convocation of the University in November, 2014 I was honoured as the Best Graduating Student of the Faculty of Business Administration for 2010/2011 session. The faculty consists of the Departments of Accounting, Business Management, Banking and Finance, Insurance and Marketing with a student population of over 500
  • Julius Berger Nigeria Plc
    Best Graduating Student, Department Of Business Management, University of Uyo 2010/2011
    Julius Berger Nigeria Plc
    Jan 2012
    The award came courtesy of Julius Berger Nigeria Plc, a foremost multinational construction company in Nigeria
  • Julius Berger Nigeria Plc
    Best Graduate Project Work 2011, Department of Business Management, University of Uyo
    Julius Berger Nigeria Plc
    Jan 2012
    The award came courtesy of Julius Berger Nigeria Plc, a foremost multinational construction company in Nigeria. The project is titled CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND FIRM PERFORMANCE: A STUDY OF SELECTED BANKS IN NIGERIA
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    THE ROLE OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS IN RESOLVING AGENCY CONFLICTS
    Self
    Jan 2012
    The research was a seminar work and formed part of the requirements for my BSc degree in Business Management from the University of Uyo
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    Corporate Governance and Firm Performance: A Study of Selected Banks in Nigeria