Dapo Olagunju built his reputation in the precise, high-stakes world of treasury markets and foreign exchange before becoming one of the names attached to JPMorgan's growing ambitions in Nigerian banking. His full name is Adedapo Adedayo Olagunju, though most in the industry know him simply as Dapo.
His career has moved through treasury management and foreign exchange, two areas that sit at the nerve center of any serious financial institution operating on the continent.
The source material on his full story is still unfolding, but what is already clear is that his trajectory places him inside one of the most watched conversations in African finance right now: what JPMorgan's deeper push into Nigeria actually looks like on the ground, and who is helping to shape it.
Originally published by BusinessDay.