Adesola Sotande-Peters is a notable and seasoned finance executive and business leader with over two decades of experience working in leading companies such as the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) UK, Diageo, Unilever, Informa Group UK, Openwave Telecoms UK and Sakura Bank, London.

Adesola is the CFO for Africa, the USA, the Caribbean & Middle East for Godrej Consumer Products Limited. Before that, she was the Vice President of finance at Unilever Nigeria Plc and Unilever Ghana & Unilever Francophone Africa. She was the first Nigerian and first female Vice President of finance in Unilever Nigeria’s almost 100 years of existence. She also oversaw the Controls and Governance agenda for Unilever Africa. She was responsible for proactively providing strategic finance leadership to ensure optimal allocation of the company’s resources in the planning and executing the business strategy to create and maximise shareholders value across Unilever Nigeria, Ghana and Francophone Africa. She also sits on the board of WELEAD, LONADEK Nigeria Limited, LEAP Africa, Aruwa Capital Investment and Chika West Africa Limited as a Non-Executive Director.

She obtained a Business Administration and Economics degree from the American International University in London (Richmond College) . She obtained her MBA for Finance Professionals from Manchester Business School in 2008. Adesola became a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) in 2019 and is also a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and the Institute of Credit Administration (ICA).