ADEBOLA ISMAIL AKINDELE

Bola is a highly versatile, analytically minded and visionary business leader with consummate skills in process re-engineering, automation and standardization, financial control, business strategy decision making and new market entry analysis in both the public and private sectors, all of which were garnered over 35 years of working experience in various roles. He is a respected team leader with an enviable track record of bold and innovative thinking through which he has created new business models that are being employed for improved levels of financial and operational efficiency by global businesses in highly regulated environments. A major leverage are his extensive experiences in auditing & accounting as well as compliance & control and business development, which where respectively garnered from years working in an audit firm and an extensive career in leadership roles in banking, which included stints in the Central Bank of Nigeria and 2 commercial banks. Bola, in his current role as the CEO of a leading global innovation company, is a proven team builder and mentor with the ability for critical business process analysis and identification of challenges through his unique style of simplification that engenders the easy transformation of concepts into definitive and innovative e-business solutions that effectively solve endemic and peculiar challenges associated with businesses and government agencies in developing economies and ultimately improve and create new revenue streams for such organizations. In the last 15 years he has led Courteville Business Solutions (CBS) to be a world-class organization,  listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange and focused on process re-engineering in both the public and private sector.

CBS is a forerunner in financial inclusion with the flagship “AutoReg product”. AutoReg is a household name that has engaged over 1,000 franchises across Nigeria and other African countries including the Caribbean.
The AutoReg platform has created a perfect interface between FinTech, quality service in Vehicle Management and Administration, and efficiency in Government Revenue accountability.
In addition to the numerous franchises and consequent labour engagement of over 10,000 persons, the platform is also engaged by over 23 banks as delivery channels for Vehicle Administration Automation Services.
CBS has developed other payment and service facilitation platforms for FIRS, NAFDAC, and the Nigerian Insurers Association (NIA), these products have won several local and international awards, so also, CBS has won numerous awards such as The Nigerian Technology Award’s (Best Use of Technology Vehicle Automation & Registration), CIPM’s (ICT Category of  2019 HR Optimization Awards), Commonwealth Industry Award 2016(Best ICT Application).
Bola as founder and CEO of CBS has inspired a cross functional team to deliver a 50% year on year balance sheet and revenue growth for the organization alongside yearly profitability and dividend payout to shareholders.