Prior to CET Group, he was a Partner with Nextzon Business Services – the most renowned fully-indigenous management consulting firm, in Nigeria. Mr. Elumeze has over 15 years professional experience in Financial Advisory, Corporate Finance, Strategy, Management Consulting, Investment and Commercial Banking, Retail Sales, Power as well as Oil and Gas.
Austine started his career in 1999 as a sales executive in Seafoods Nigeria Limited before joining the Investment Banking subsidiary of Standard Trust Bank Plc. (STB), now United Bank for Africa (UBA) as a financial analyst. In five years, he had worked in various capacities in the investment (STB Capital Markets) and corporate/commercial banking where he was exposed to corporate finance, financial advisory, capital financing, sales/marketing, relationship management, product development, credit and financial analysis amongst others. Austine left the bank in 2005 to manage his family-owned real estate and construction company where he was exposed to contractor/vendor management, project management and other entrepreneurial skills.
Between 2009 and 2014, he worked with Nextzon Business Services as a Partner and the Head of Financial Services and Payment Strategic Business Unit (SBU) under the Ventures and Business Advisory arm of the practice. In this period, he worked with several institutions in Nigeria including Insurance Companies, NAICOM, Commercial and Investment Banks, CBN, etc. to develop and implement corporate strategies, processes and corporate governance systems, aimed at realizing their growth aspirations.
He is an ardent facilitator in the Fate Foundation’s Aspiring Entrepreneur Programme (AEP) where he takes courses in start-up cost and financing, budgeting and money management (book-keeping).
