Mayowa Adeosun is the founder and CEO of Assetrica, governance infrastructure for African real asset capital markets. He spent five years at Leadway Assurance, where he underwrote contractor performance risk, and co-founded Sycamore, a regulated financial services group. Born in the UK, he moved to Nigeria in 2010 to build.

Mayowa Adeosun is the founder and CEO of Assetrica, governance infrastructure for African real asset capital markets. Born in the United Kingdom, he moved to Nigeria in 2010, starting in currency operations at the Central Bank of Nigeria. He then spent five years at Leadway Assurance, where he underwrote advance payment and performance bonds for construction contractors, judging whether builders would deliver before capital moved. In 2018 he co-founded Sycamore, a regulated financial services group now disbursing billions of naira monthly to small and medium businesses, and served as its COO and CFO until December 2025. He remains on its board as a non-executive director. His work rests on a single conviction: African real assets earn institutional capital when every mandate runs on an independent, verifiable record. He holds an MBA from Lagos Business School, where he was class president, and a B.B.A. from Morehouse College.

Mayowa Adeosun is the founder and CEO of Assetrica, governance infrastructure for African real asset capital markets. His work rests on a single conviction: African real assets earn institutional capital when every mandate runs on an independent, verifiable record.

Born in London and raised in Essex, he studied finance at Morehouse College in Atlanta and, after graduating in 2010, moved to Nigeria, a country he had never visited, with no network behind him. He began in currency operations at the Central Bank of Nigeria before joining Leadway Assurance, where he earned his place on the underwriting floor by analysing a season of IATA travel agent bond applications with no brief and a week's deadline. Over five years at Leadway he underwrote financial guarantees, from the IATA bonds that allow Nigerian travel agents to trade with airlines to the advance payment and performance bonds behind construction contractors, judging in each case whether the counterparty could deliver before the guarantee was issued.

He then completed an MBA at Lagos Business School, where he was elected class president and represented the school at Yale School of Management's Integrated Leadership Case Competition in 2018, and worked in strategy at Accenture through its MBA programme. In 2018 he co-founded Sycamore, a regulated financial services group now disbursing billions of naira monthly to small and medium businesses, and served as its COO and CFO until December 2025, building its credit risk, collections and finance functions. He remains on its board as a non-executive director.

He speaks on governance as the unlock for institutional capital in African real assets, and on the capital stack and ecosystem that African real assets need to get built.