Honour for The Transformative CEO of Optivia Capital, Jane Kimemia

She was recently conferred with an Honorary Doctorate Degree for her contributions to humanity and for her commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations. An authentic business leader and entrepreneur who has devoted a lot of time and energy into getting where she is today, Jane Kimemia, is leading the remarkable transformative growth of Optiva Capital Partners, a leading investment immigration wealth management company, writes Gilbert Ekwugbe

In his best-selling book, “Good to Great,” Jim Collins stated that every good-to-great company is led by what he described as Level 5 leaders who not only embody a paradoxical mix of personal humility and professional will, but also are ambitious for the company, not themselves.

Enter Jane Kimemia, the affable Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Optiva Capital Partners, the leading investment immigration wealth management company. This amazon who is re-writing the investment immigration landscape in the country has extensive experience in general management, with a track record of setting up and building sustainable businesses. Her specialization is in wealth management and working with high-net worth clients.

An inspirational leader who understands alignment of work with values across the entire system; encouraging staff to set ambitious goals and accomplish them consistently, Kimemia promotes a clear sense of purpose that propels Optiva Capital Partners team members to find more value in their work.

Her cleverness is not in doubt because she is focused and determined through her thoughtful comments, her observational skills, her wittiness, and her perceptive capabilities such that she hardly can miss a single detail.

As the Chief Executive Officer of Optiva Capital Partners, Jane Kimemia, a product of the Executive Education Programme of INSEAD Business School, France, has overseen the sustained and impressive growth trajectory of this leading investment immigration firm.

It is therefore not surprising that in recognition of her immense contributions to humanity, and affirmation of her enduring value that true wealth lies in the heart, Ms. Jane Kimemia was recently conferred with an Honorary Doctorate Degree (Honoris Causa) of Men and Women of Influence Global Award by Highstone Global University Texas USA.

In the citation, the University commended Kimemia for her commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations which is a universal call to action to end poverty, ensure good health and well-being, protect the planet, and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity.

Prior to her current CEO role, Ms. Kimemia had a successful career in the banking sector of the financial service industry, having worked with two international banks, Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) and Barclays Bank for a combined period of 20 years. She was the Executive Director and Head of Wealth Management at SCB, with responsibility for investments services, banc assurance and foreign exchange for an entire region. She was also Managing Director of Standard Chartered Investments Services (SCIS), one of the bank’s subsidiaries and was Managing Director at the Standard Chartered Insurance Agencies Limited (SCIAL).

Jane Kimemia also served as the General Manager of Priority and International banking at Standard Chartered Bank, where she spearheaded the setting-up, establishment and management of the Priority Banking proposition for high-net-worth clients across regions. Prior to joining Standard Chartered Bank, she had worked for Barclays Bank holding senior positions including Head of Premier Banking; and Head of Scheme Loans.

Optiva Capital Partners, the nation’s leading investment immigration wealth management company has steadily, over the past thirteen years built a growing reputation amongst investment savvy Nigerians who seek quality service in investment immigration, investment advisory, and wealth management. In all of these bespoke services the company’s unwavering commitment is to provide clients with the opportunity to protect, grow, enhance and optimize their wealth, and ensure they get the benefits of secured Capital through Multi-asset funds, Global equities, Corporate funds; and also achieve Optimal Diversified Portfolio

In fact Optiva Capital Partners is reputed to be one of the fastest-growing brands in the wealth management sector, easily recognized as the largest in investment immigration.

Beloved for its customer-centric focus, deep commitment to structured process, and its extensive network through its reputable global partnerships, this fast-growing brand has come a long way since it began operations in 2010.

Through firm determination and clear definition of the company’s raison d’etre, Optiva Capital Partners, according to its visionary Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Ms. Jane Kimemia, has grown it staff strength from just about 15 in 2017 to over 1000 currently, with over 17 branches across the country, and projected to reach 20 branches in the next few months.

Optiva Capital Partners longstanding purpose encapsulated in its core values of service, professionalism, collaboration, and excellence; premium product innovations; and reputable global partnerships, have all added up to a winning formula.

As the leading investment immigration service provider, the company assists its clientele to save long-term through investment immigration with a commitment to help Nigerians to save on what they would have been spending on through its bespoke investment immigration services.

According to Ms. Kimemia, through the Citizenship By Immigration (CBI) programme, clients receive tremendous value and savings on the scarce foreign exchange that comes back in developing Nigeria. “We are looking at value, costs, and value across generations as well. So you get second citizenship it doesn’t stop you from continuing your business, but it gives you global access. So it is not a spend but an investment and it is savings.”

Shedding more light on the savings and value inherent in the investment immigration services, Kimemia stated that with “children’s education for example, investment immigration becomes a vehicle for our clients to protect, to grow, to enhance, to diversify their wealth. For somebody looking for permanent residency or to invest in a programme in Canada, their children’s education say in University of Toronto, international students for a Bachelors programme will be paying about $60,000 annually, but as permanent residents they will be paying just $6,000 per annum.”

Recognizing that employees at every level of its business are crucial to its success, Optiva Capital Partners CEO stated that “we are a lifelong training institution. By default, we attract a lot of women to do front-line roles, in terms of speaking to the clients and the fact that we are a growth institution for when people come in, they know they are going to grow in profile and knowledge, and by understanding, because the space we are in is to talk about high-level clients and we are intentional with the level of training we give our staff, just for them to be able to engage.”

But there is more to the transformative leadership capabilities of Jane Kimemia. She recognizes that true wealth lies not in the pocket, but in the heart, and that a company can ‘do well by doing good’, that business can perform better financially by attending not only to its core business operations, but also to its responsibilities toward creating a better society.

Consequently, Optiva Capital Partners takes her corporate social responsibility engagement seriously through its passionate commitment to maternal health care. Optiva Capital is partnering Lagos State Ministry of Health to embark on a Maternal Health Care project that will help find lasting solutions thereby contributing to reducing maternal death rate in the state and the nation at large

A woman of many parts, whether it is about sharing her remarkable experience with other women, as she recently did at the just concluded Annual Conference of Women in Management, Business and Public Service (WIMBIZ), or giving deep insights to a holistic value-proposition for developing the nation’s tourism, this successful professional and entrepreneur who has devoted a lot of time and energy into getting where she is today, continues to expand her possibilities thinking, and thereby break new grounds.

For instance, she passionately urges women who aspire to make enduring marks in their career progression to learn to move from “success to significance.”

Against the background of the nation’s challenging economic reality which has in turn affected businesses, stifling the ease of doing business including the economic impact on tourism, this enigmatic CEO of Optiva Capital Partners, advocated the adoption of a holistic value proposition for tourism development that addresses funding, and how to create the enabling environment to be able to actually execute. At a Policy Dialogue on “the Economic Impact of Tourism in Lagos” where she was a key discussant, Ms. Kimemia tasked participants to identify how to tackle the challenges, and how to start identifying tourism as one key economic driver.

Characteristically, as a good story-teller who delivers compelling messages at every of her outing, she draws from her personal experience of transiting from over two decades of successful career in financial services to enterprise.

She cautions fellow women in business or public service that every woman at any transition stage should define what they wish to do during transition, and be guided by what they are known for or passionate about.

With Jane Kimemia in the driver’s seat, Optiva Capital Partners growth trajectory is propelled by its resolute commitment to the established principles that drive sustainability and superior returns on investment, such as its customer-centric focus which ensures it understands its current and prospective clients, in order to better meet their requirements and expectations, which is visible in its improved customer loyalty.

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“Against the background of the nation’s challenging economic reality which has in turn affected businesses, stifling the ease of doing business including the economic impact on tourism, this enigmatic CEO of Optiva Capital Partners, advocated the adoption of a holistic value proposition for tourism development that addresses funding, and how to create the enabling environment to be able to actually execute. At a Policy Dialogue on “the Economic Impact of Tourism in Lagos” where she was a key discussant, Ms. Kimemia tasked participants to identify how to tackle the challenges, and how to start identifying tourism as one key economic driver.”

“With Jane Kimemia in the driver’s seat, Optiva Capital Partners growth trajectory is propelled by its resolute commitment to the established principles that drive sustainability and superior returns on investment”