Afrinvest Securities Chairman Joins NASD Plc Board

By Dipo Olowookere

The chairman of Afrinvest Securities Limited, Mrs Fatumata Soukouna Coker, has been appointed to the board of NASD Plc as a non-executive director.

The Liberian-born entrepreneur is an expert in global and emerging markets and has worked with a wide variety of companies in the USA, Africa, India, and the Middle East.

She has over 20 years of experience working with Fortune 500 companies in the high-tech industry, including extensive global management responsibilities at IBM in the USA, African experience at Microsoft and Nigerian experience at Soft Solutions Limited, a Nigerian information technology solutions company.

Mrs Coker established Ygroup Holdings and YGH West Africa Limited, a West African technology and business payments and settlement integration company headquartered in Monrovia, Liberia and Lagos, Nigeria.

She is also a co-founder and chair of the Centre for Women & Children Empowerment (CEWCE), a non-profit, non-governmental organization established with the vision to empower vulnerable women and children in post-war society in Liberia.

In a notice, NASD Plc said it trusts that Mrs Coker will make a significant contribution to the organisation in her role on the board because of her expertise with the LBS Executive MBAs and the American University of Cairo Business School Undergrads.

It was gathered that in 2019, the non-executive director was appointed as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of CreditRegistry Services.