Funso Doherty was born in Lagos on 16 June 1968. His father, the late Dr. Henry Aderounmu Aremu Doherty, a medical doctor, was also born in Lagos, in the year 1900 to “Oga” Josiah Henryson Doherty (popularly known as “the prince merchant of Alakoro”). His paternal grandmother, Germana, was from the Reis family. Funso’s mother, Gladys Urunowonekawo Kirstein, now in her nineties, was born in 1931 to an Itsekiri mother, Mary Kponuko Eyesan and a German father.

Funso grew up in the Yaba area of Lagos on Wakeman Street (now Borno Way). His father owned and operated a private Medical Practice on Aje Street, following a career as a medical officer dating back to the colonial administration which he joined after completing medical school in Glasgow, Scotland in 1926. His mother retired from the then National Electric Power Authority after successfully completing 35 years in the civil service.

Funso attended Corona School Victoria Island, Lagos, where he was appointed and served as Head Boy, completing his primary education in 1979. He was admitted into King’s College Lagos, which was also his father’s alma mater (Dr. Henry Doherty completed his studies at King’s College in 1918). While at KC, Funso was a Federal Government Academic Scholar. He was also a recipient of the school’s Service to College Life award, for being elected by his peers to serve as Form Captain for four Consecutive terms of office.

After KC, Funso commenced undergraduate studies at the University of Lagos where he studied Accounting, graduating with Second Class Upper Division Honours in 1990. While at Unilag, he was a member of the well-known ABC Club, and was ultimately elected by his peers as Chief of the club.

Career
His year of National Service commenced with orientation at the (in)famous Yikpata camp in Kwara State, where he served as Platoon Leader. He served out his primary assignment, teaching for a year in a rural Community Secondary school in Okehi local government area, then in Kwara, now part of Kogi State.

After completing NYSC in 1991, Funso applied, interviewed and was selected for a coveted position in the Lagos office of Arthur Andersen & Co. (now KPMG) earning the (then princely) sum of approximately N1,800 per month. He spent three years at the Firm, being trained locally and internationally and rising quickly to the position of Senior. Not wanting to make a career in accounting practice, he left the Firm in 1994, after successfully completing the qualifying examinations of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria.

He joined Asset & Resource Management Company, then a part of the Guaranty Trust Bank Group, at inception in 1994, where he specialized in investment management, becoming one of the pioneers of the mutual fund industry in Nigeria.

In 1995, he married then Dr. (Miss) Orode Omolara Williams of the Williams Family of Olowogbowo, Lagos. Orode’s father was the late Professor Babatunde Williams and her mother is the renowned Professor of Mathematics Education, and former Vice Chancellor, Grace Awani Alele-Williams of blessed memory.

In 1999, Funso was admitted to Harvard Business School and commenced the MBA program. Orode was also admitted to Harvard’s Graduate School of Public Health. They both graduated in the summer of 2001. That year, Funso joined the Investment Management Division of Goldman, Sachs & Co. the global Investment Banking Firm. He was in downtown Manhattan, New York, when the twin towers of the World Trade Center were attacked and felled by terrorists on 9/11.

Funso subsequently joined PNC Advisors, the investment management business of the PNC Banking group as a Vice President at its Head Office in Pennsylvania, USA. He returned to Nigeria in 2005, to serve as the Pioneer Managing Director/CEO of ARM Pension Managers which he led from inception to become one of Nigeria’s leading Pension Fund Administrators. He led, managed and successfully integrated the Pension Industry’s first major Merger and Acquisition transaction. During this period, he was chosen by his fellow operators as the Pioneer Chairman of the Pension Fund Operators Association, the umbrella body of all licensed pension operators.

He moved on in 2011, and was engaged in private investing. Between 2014 and 2017 he partnered with the African Capital Alliance Group (ACA), after the buyout of their Joint Venture Partner’s interest in Valualliance Asset Management Company (Formerly SIM Capital Alliance). He served as Managing Director / CEO and was a co-investor. In 2017, he was nominated by the then Acting President, to the office of Director-General of the National Pension Commission together with a new slate of Commissioners. These appointments were however never concluded or advanced to Senate for Confirmation proceedings.

Funso recently completed his tenure as Managing Director / CEO of PAL Pensions where he led a nationwide team overseeing the management of over half a trillion naira in Assets. He is a charter holder and co-founding Trustee of the CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) Society Nigeria and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria.

Personal
Funso and Orode are blessed with three wonderful children:
Anuoluwakiitan (Kiitan)
Oluwasijibomi (Siji), and
Riritarioluwa (Tari)

Funso reads widely and enjoys running and has done so for many years. These days, he typically does a 5k run three or four times each week.

2mch:
This one na good candidate sha

Beremx:
Lol. If he was running under Labour party, y'all would have still called him an Igbo candidate or an Igbo agenda. 🤣🤣

Too bad most Lagosians don't know him

Acidosis:


They will never give him a chance anyway. They never gave Agbaje a chance.

Beremx:
Lol. If he was running under Labour party, y'all would have still called him an Igbo candidate or an Igbo agenda. 🤣🤣

Too bad most Lagosians don't know him

raskymonojendor:

Sad isn't it. Chinedu Gbadebo sef is not known but he is an opportunist riding with the wave of the Labour party movement. Most of the Obidients have have never Gbadebo's resume. All we hear all the time is that he went to Havard. With money, it's not difficult to get into Havard

Beremx:
his resume is on the internet for you to see. That it is not on nairaland doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

raskymonojendor:

Sad isn't it. Chinedu Gbadebo sef is not known but he is an opportunist riding with the wave of the Labour party movement. Most of the Obidients have have never Gbadebo's resume. All we hear all the time is that he went to Havard (. With money, it's not difficult to get into Havard

Acidosis:


When Tinubu gave you Ambode and Sanwo-Olu, did you ask this question??

Anyway, GRV's CV is everywhere. Everyone knows he's MIT alumni, an architect, and more...

raskymonojendor:

Post it here. I have searched and searched.

Beremx:
it's on his Wikipedia page.

raskymonojendor:

Yes. Sanwo Olu had worked years in the financial industry and 3 times commissioner. Fashola was a Senior Advocate of Nigeria. What is GRV's qualifications aside Harvard.

Acidosis:


He worked with Franklin Ellis Architects when he was in the UK. On returning to Nigeria, he worked with SISA, Cliff Consulting, etc. before venturing into politics and activism.

In 2019, he contested for a senatorial seat in Lagos under the PDP and garnered over 35% of total votes cast. Winner had about 40%.

What's Sanwo-Olu's political history again before he was handpicked?

Acidosis:


He worked with Franklin Ellis Architects when he was in the UK. On returning to Nigeria, he worked with SISA, Cliff Consulting, etc. before venturing into politics and activism.

His academic profile is clear: University of Northingham, MIT, and UNILAG. One Masters degree in Architecture, another in public policy.

In 2019, he contested for a senatorial seat in Lagos under the PDP and garnered over 35% of total votes cast. Winner had about 40%.

What's Sanwo-Olu's political history again before he was handpicked?

Adeolaeniola:
Their campaign always poor with little awareness

raskymonojendor:

Worked in what capacity. As an student co-op or Intern? Or was it at the business Call center as an agent?

This is all his wikipedia page has.

raskymonojendor:

The below is all I found on Wikipedia.

Since then I have been practicing architecture and have worked with very notable architecture firms in Nigeria like SISA, Patrick Wayi, and Cliff Consulting now called Building Partnership CCP.

Patrick Wayi doesn't exist. I can't find "Building Partnership CCP" as well.

The only one I found is the below:

Acidosis:

All these questions because he did not work for Tinubu's civil service?