Investment bank Renaissance Capital named Temi Popoola head of Nigerian equities on Thursday.

Popoola will be based in Lagos and report to Benjamin Samuels, the company’s global head of equities.

Temi holds a First Class degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Lagos and obtained a Masters Degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He previously led the sales and trading division at CSL Stockbrokers. Prior to joining CSLS as the Head, Private Client Services, he spent some years in New York with Bank of America securities where he was responsible for managing the bank’s financials and industrials equity derivative portfolio.

While at BofA, he gained extensive experience helping clients develop strategies that help maximize returns while managing risk. Prior to his role at CSLS, he has worked as an asset manager with Material Managers in London and he was very recently the Head of Structured Products at the United Bank for Africa, Lagos where he was responsible for investing the bank’s capital across numerous asset classes on exchanges in New York and London. He is the co-founder of Centurion capital partners, an asset management firm based in New York.