FUNKE ADE-OJO (General Manager - Security and Risk)
Funke is currently the General Manager – Security and Risk for 3Line Card Management Limited. Before her appointment in May 2008 as General Manager she was the Head of Corporate Services.
As the Head of Corporate Services she leads the finance, HR, admin and legal units. She has experience of accounting, personnel management, and adminis¬trative issues in both the UK and Nigeria. She has been closely involved with raising outside equity funding, running the e-Business franchise of a prominent UK company and in advising several start-up and growing firms. She has over 10 years experience spanning across retail, insurance, telecommunication, professional services, and the IT industry.
She holds a Bachelors degree (honours) in Economics for Business, second class upper from the University of Westminster London. A Masters degree (honours) in Information Technology from the University of Nottingham, UK, where she was awarded a distinction in her final dissertation.
She began her career in 1996 as a Sales Executive at D.H. Evans London the multimillion pound retail business, she worked her way up to Assistant Manager Human Resources, Payroll and Training. Over time, she steadily mastered the skill of business management by working with a wide range of multinational establishments such as Reed Recruitment, TMP World Wide, Sun Life Assurance, NTL Communications, Accenture and Auravita Ltd.
Funke was part of the pioneering Project Team at Accenture UK that rolled-out an Enterprise Network Transformation for the UK’s second largest supermarket resulting in immediate savings of more than £35 million ($50 million) per year.
At Auravita Ltd an innovative software engineering company based in London, she was the Business-to-Business (B2B) Manager. She strategically managed the company’s on-line credit and payment system that integrated into HSBC Bank’s EDI system to facilitate e-Procurement and Settlement. She also Managed all the daily operations and controls of the company accounts, credit control, dispute resolution, electronic invoice presentment and payment, e-Procurement modules and proudly coordinated the development of several Third Party Online Exchanges still being deployed effectively by the company to date.
Funke serves on the board of Eurocrown Int’l, essence.com and Christ Signature. She was recently appointed as Coordinator of the ‘Changing Our World Foundation’ a registered community based NGO in Lagos aimed at alleviating poverty in the Obalende community.
Funke Ade-Ojo is happily married and blessed with 2 kids.
CHINEDU ELUCHIE (HEAD OF OPERATIONS)
Mr. Eluchie joined 3Line in September 2008 and currently heads the operations team with ten (10) years cognate experience in transaction and payment operations.
He started his career in the banking industry in the year 2000 with Ecobank Nigeria Plc working in Foreign Operations Unit and later Treasury Operations Department. In 2004 he was selected as member of the Ecobank/Master Card implementation team set up to run the very first dollar denominated credit card scheme by a bank in Nigeria. His keen interest in electronic payments took him to UBA in March 2007 where he was Head of Settlement and Reconciliation Team for the Card Services Group of the bank.
He has a passion for operational excellence and innovations in electronic payments.
Mr Eluchie has a Higher National Diploma in Finance and Banking from the Federal Polytechnic Nekede in Owerri. In addition to his MBA from Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (Lautech) he is also an associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN).
Mr Eluchie is happily married, a keen family man and loves to play football at weekends.
