Dr Jonathan Long

Director

Dr Long is the Chairman of FCMB. He holds Bachelors and Masters degrees from Balliol College and a Doctorate degree from St. Antony's College, both at Oxford University in the United Kingdom. He has over twenty five years corporate finance experience working in merchant banking in the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Nigeria. He was a Manager, Corporate Finance, with Charterhouse Japhet Limited in London, where he was involved with the establishment of Charterhouse Petroleum Securities Limited as well as advising jointly with City Securities on a proposed restructuring of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation in 1979. He joined First City Merchant Bank Limited in 1985 as Deputy Managing Director, was appointed Managing Director in 1987 and subsequently Chairman in 2005. Over the last twenty four years, he has led numerous project teams advising the Nigerian Government, major multinational clients or large local corporate institutions on major financial transactions. He is also a director of Kakawa Discount House Limited.