Osadebe Osakwe is the Managing Director of Zenith Realtors Limited with concurrent responsibility as General Manager of a Lagos Zone in the Zenith Bank Group.  Osadebe joined Zenith Bank in 1993 as an Analyst and had since held various leadership positions in the Bank. Before his current appointment in 2006, he pioneered the establishing of Zenith Investment Banking and Capital Markets Group.

Following the introduction of Universal Banking in Nigeria he had incubated and led a family of adjacent businesses within the Zenith Bank Group, including Zenith Securities Limited, Zenith Pension Custodian Limited, Zenith Registrars Limited, Zenith Trust Company Limited and Zenith Mortgages Limited. He heads a team that is currently working with USAID to introduce mortgage finance to small and medium income household in Nigeria.

Osadebe’s multicultural skill and exploratory mindset is exemplified by a world class Real Estate project recently executed in the high brow Ikoyi area of Lagos, where he led a team of Nigerian and Chinese professionals to conceive, plan, execute and successfully market “The Luxury Gardens”; arguably the best address for millionaires in that part of Nigeria today!

Before the above appointments, he was General Manager in the Corporate Banking Group where he garnered experiences in Credit Risk Management, Development Finance, Export, Leasing, Multilateral Finance, etc.

Osadebe recently led a team of twelve colleagues to design a Retail Banking Strategy for the Zenith Bank Group.

His greatest motivations are in the areas of strategy, business innovation, corporate entrepreneurship and Adaptive Leadership for value creation.