Jane Kimemia: Championing Investment Immigration Opportunities for Africans

 Dr. Jane Kimemia is the Chief Executive Officer of Optiva Capital Partners Limited, easily the largest provider of second citizenship and residency services in Africa. Sunday Ehigiator writes on her leading role in championing investment immigration opportunities for Africans

An authentic business leader and entrepreneur who has devoted a lot of time and energy into getting where she is today, she is leading the remarkable transformative growth of Optiva Capital Partners, a leading investment immigration wealth management company.

This amazon who is re-writing the investment immigration landscape in Africa 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.

Prior to her current CEO role, 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, Africa’s leading investment immigration wealth management company has steadily, over the past fourteen years built a growing reputation amongst investment savvy Africans 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 elite global partners, 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 Jane Kimemia, has grown it staff strength from just about 15 in 2017 to over 1000 currently, with over 21 branches across Nigeria and significant presence across Africa.

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 Africans to save on what they would have been spending on through its bespoke investment immigration services.

According to Kimemia, through the Citizenship By Immigration (CBI) programme, clients receive tremendous value and savings on the scarce foreign exchange that comes back in developing Africa. “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.”

Recognising 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 recognises 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 and empowerment of women, especially those at the lower rung of society’s ladder.

Women, according to her, are the bedrock of the society, the basic unit of society -the home, is run by women, and that is where it all starts. Women are seeking ways to educate, to empower, to contribute, and these start from the home. They want to be able to educate, train their children and themselves. Women also seek to be empowered by the knowledge and experiences gathered, and to contribute to the growth and development of the society.

Also, Optiva Capital Partners works with families, because when they work with families on how their children are going to school, on how they can go to Canada and they will be paying a tenth of what the international students will be paying, it is a service to women, a service to the family. According to her, we are enabling them, we are showing them opportunities on how they can actually access better services.

Jane Kimemia, the transformative CEO revealed that “in terms of mentorship, Optiva Capital Partners actually mentors more women to be successful. At Optiva Capital Partners, over seventy percent of our workforce is women. So for us it is not just a one-off thing because we are daily committed to empowering our workforce, seventy percent of whom are women, creating opportunities for them to serve, to get better, and to grow a career. You know when you raise one woman you raise a generation, because one woman impacts at least five people. So you can then imagine the multiplier effect of that in a workforce of over 1000 people and seventy percent are women.”

With Dr. 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.