Alhaji Razak Jaiyeola

Country: Nigeria

Alhaji Razak Jaiyeola became a member of the IFAC PAO Development & Advisory Group in January 2020. He was nominated by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN).

He is the Managing Partner of Razak Jaiyeola & Co, (Chartered Accountants) and Chief Consultant of A.J.Silicon Tech Ltd, a Financial Information Technology Consulting Firm. He was a board member of:

• Pan African Federation of Accountants (PAFA) (2017 – 2019)
• Accounting Bodies of West Africa (ABWA) (2017 – 2019)
• Association of Professional Bodies of Nigeria (APBN) (2018 – 2019)
• Information Technology Industry Association of Nigeria   

Alhaji Jaiyeola is also a member of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPON), Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC), and Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE).

Alhaji Jaiyeola organized the first ever ICAN Technology Conference, which brought awareness of the impact of technology disruption to members and how to embrace it. He was also one of the two champions of ICAN’s Technology Competence Initiative that trained about 8,000 pre-inductees on IT.

Alhaji Jaiyeola is an alumnus of Coopers & Lybrand (now PWC), where he won prize in auditing at the intermediate level and First Merit position in his final examination. He served on the Local Content Consultative Committee of the National Electricity Regulatory Commission and is currently a board member of NEPAD.