Eyitope Kola-Oyeneyin

BIO

Eyitope (Topsy) is a transformation expert with over 15 years of global experience across a variety of industries. She serves clients in both the private and public sectors, developing ambitious growth programs and executing large-scale transformations, with a primary focus on financial services.

Topsy rejoined the firm in 2017, after holding various executive roles at First Bank of Nigeria—most recently leading the bank’s foray into sub-Saharan Africa, spearheading integration across six different countries and running its international banking business. Before that, she designed and implemented the bank’s corporate-transformation program and managed its extensive operations network, covering more than 700 branches and head-office operations. Topsy also led a coalition of government entities, private companies, and civil-society organizations to successfully implement Cashless Lagos, the Central Bank of Nigeria’s payments-transformation program.

Topsy began her McKinsey career in 2004 as an associate in the Atlanta office before transferring to the Johannesburg office in 2008 as a co-leader in the firm’s effort to formally establish an office in Nigeria.