Dr. Bayo Olugbemi is the Managing Director/CEO of First Registrars & Investor Services Limited (formerly a subsidiary of First Bank Plc), a position he has held for more than twenty years now. He has extensive experience spanning about thirty-eight (38) years in the areas of Investment Banking, Portfolio Management, Share Data Management, Securities Depository, Stockbroking as well as Mutual & Pension Fund Administration. He is a turnaround specialist and has led several initiatives that positively impacted the Share Registration Industry in particular and the Nigerian Capital Market in general.

Over the past thirty-eight (38) years, Bayo had worked at different levels in Union Bank of Nigeria Plc, Rims Merchant Bank Limited, United Securities Limited, Diamond Bank Plc (now part of Access Bank Plc) and NAL Merchant Bank Plc (Now Part of Sterling Bank Plc) before joining the First Bank Group in January 2000. Bayo has served and still serving on several committees of Central Bank of Nigeria, Securities & Exchange Commission, The Nigerian Stock Exchange, Institute of Directors, Nigeria, CIBN, ICSAN, ICMR etc. He is on the Governing Councils of The Institute of Capital Market Registrars and The Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria as the immediate Past President/Chairman of Council. He is a Past Treasurer of Lagos Chamber of Commerce & Industry and still serving on the Council. He was a two term Chairman of CIBN, Lagos Branch and has also served as The National Treasurer and 2nd Vice President of CIBN respectively.

Bayo is a Past President of Jericho Businessmen Club and currently on the Boards of many forward-looking Companies and NGOs such as Central Securities Clearing Systems Plc, APT Pension Fund Managers Limited, Oluyole Global Resources Plc, AWABIKE Technology Limited, Attwool Group of Schools, Youth Rescue & Care Initiatives (YORCI), Olufunke Kikelomo Olugbemi Cancer Foundation (OKOCAF), Bayo Olugbemi Education Foundation (BOEF), among others. He holds a BSc. Degree in Accounting (Unilag), MBA from Lagos State University and MSc. in Corporate Governance from Leeds Beckett University, United Kingdom. He has attended management training programs at Harvard, Stanford, IMD, INSEAD, New York Institute of Finance, Institute of Directors UK and Lagos Business School. He is an author of three published books and a respected trainer and motivational speaker.