Fola Laoye
Co-Founder & CEO, Iwosan Investments Limited – Moderator
Fola Laoye is the co-Founder and CEO of Iwosan Investments Limited, a Health Investments Holding Company, and owners of Iwosan Lagoon Hospitals.
She was a founding board member of Hygeia Group Nigeria, founders of Lagoon Hospitals and Hygeia HMO, where she served as CEO (2002-2012) and as Chairperson (2012-2015).
She is Chairperson of FSDH Asset Management and is a board member of Retail Supermarkets (Shoprite Nigeria). She is a member of the Board of the Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI), USA.
As part of her philanthropic contributions, she currently chairs the Elebute-LUTH Welfare Board and is a trustee of the Harvard Business School Association of Nigeria and also a trustee of the board of the Society for Quality in Healthcare in Nigeria (SQHN).
She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School (class of 1999) and a bachelor’s degree in Accounting from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. She is a Chartered Accountant with vast training from Ernst & Young, Lagos, and Coopers & Lybrand (now PwC), London. She is a Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria.
In 2011, Fola was nominated as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, and in 2013, she was awarded the Harvard Business School Africa Business Club Leadership Excellence Award.