Adedotun Sulaiman
Board of Trustee
Mr. Adedotun Sulaiman started his career life as a diplomat, with a brief stint at the Nigerian Embassy in Washington DC as a Consular Officer from November 1976 to early 1978. In late 1978, he joined the Management Information Consulting Division of Arthur Andersen & Co. (later Andersen Consulting, now Accenture) as a pioneer staff. He rose rapidly through the ranks to become a local partner in 1984 and a Partner in the Worldwide firm in 1989.
He succeeded the founding Managing Partner of Arthur Andersen &Co. in 1993 and remained Country Managing Partner of both Arthur Andersen, the Audit and Tax practice, and Andersen Consulting until 1999 when he relinquished the headship of Arthur Andersen to focus exclusively as Country Managing Director of Andersen Consulting ( now Accenture) upon the breakup of Arthur Andersen Worldwide Organization. He retired as Country Managing Director of Accenture in 2005 and continued as Chairman until 2010..
Mr. Sulaiman sits on and chairs the boards of many companies in several sectors and is an active venture investor focusing his investment on start-ups and early- stage businesses, where he supports, mentors, coaches and handholds young and promising entrepreneurs. He also invests, co-invests and works closely with some of the major private equity firms active in Nigeria including Actis, African Capital Alliance, Helios and Adlevo.
He has also served or continues to sit on the boards of several not-for-profit organisations including the Corona Schools Trust, Greensprings Schools, the University of Lagos Advancement, Board Society for Art Collection, the Musical Society of Nigeria (MUSON), the Nigerian Economic Summit Group, the Harvard Business School Alumni of Nigeria (HBSAN) and the African Ventures Philanthropy Alliance and Lagos Angel Network.
He is a distinguished alumnus of the University of Lagos from where he graduated with a First Class Honours degree in Business Administration in 1975 and of the Harvard Business School where he did the PMD in 1990. Pursuing his professional education further, DS became an associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountant of Nigeria(ICAN) ACA, in May 1981.