Angela is the Business Manager and Chief Operating Officer of First Cardiology Consultants, a multi-specialist hospital whose mission is to deliver the highest quality comprehensive Medical and Surgical care through innovative use of modern technology and a commitment to local capacity building, education and collaborative research.

She is also a member of the Healthy Heart Foundation by First Cardiology Consultants, a non-profit organization with a mission to broaden access to lifesaving therapies to under-served communities, and through training and research to increase awareness of the prevention and treatment of heart diseases.

Before joining FCC Healthcare, Angela was at Johnson & Johnson (J&J), from where she retired in 2019 as Vice President and General Counsel, Janssen Pharmaceuticals and the Consumer Group of Companies. As General Counsel, she was a member of the Management Boards and led a global team that was responsible for all legal matters concerning J&J, worldwide. Prior to her legal career, Angela spent several years on the business side and for several years held various rolls in Marketing at 3M
An engineer and patent attorney by training, Angela has held various positions in the engineering and intellectual property arenas. As an associate at the law firm of Oppenheimer Wolfe & Donnelly, she worked primarily in Mergers & Acquisitions, IP litigation and served as legal counsel and Corporate Secretary to several start-up companies. She was Senior Division Patent Counsel for Corning Incorporated where she led a global team responsible for their advanced materials patent portfolio. She began her Johnson & Johnson career as Vice President, Patents for Alza Corporation (a J&J company), where she also served on the Management Board. And she would later assume global responsibility for the patent portfolio of the J&J Consumer Group of Companies.

In the areas of public health and policy, Angela has counselled organizations on the impact of global policies on affordability and sustainable access to medicines in emerging markets, particularly Africa. She represented J&J in various public-private partnerships (PPPs) including the Gates Foundation, the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), the Wellcome Trust and many other groups in collaborations addressing neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) and other global health issues.

Her long career has taken her across the globe including several years in Brussels where she led a global team responsible for the company’s office of Global Public Health and helped guide its global IP Policies at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), other UN organizations, and the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (IFPMA).

Angela holds a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering (BChE) degree from the University of Minnesota, an MBA from the University of St. Thomas, and Juris Doctorate (JD Hons.) from William Mitchell College of Law.

She is the President and Founder of Ireze Foundation, a non-profit organization that is focused on education of children in rural and resource-limited areas of Nigeria. She serves on the Board of Monell Chemical Senses Center, a research institute for the Advanced Discovery in Taste and Smell.

Cathy Echeozo presently manages Cathingens Empowerment Initiative, her social intervention & Investment entity. She had a 33-year banking career which started in 1984 with Chase Merchant Bank Nigeria. Cathy also worked with Ecobank Nigeria Plc. She then began her 24-year career with Guaranty Trust Bank (GTBank) in 1993. She was appointed to the Board of GTBank as an Executive Director in March 2005, and Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Bank in 2011 and served in that capacity until her retirement in March 2017. Cathy also represented GTBank on the Board of Nigerian Interbank Settlement System Plc (NIBSS) from 2008 till March 2017.

After her retirement from Banking in 2017, Cathy was appointed to the Council of The Nigerian Stock Exchange as the Second Vice President and also served as an Independent Director of Stanbic IBTC Pension Managers Limited from 2017 – 2020.

Cathy presently also serves in the following capacities: - Non Executive Director Guaranty Trust Holding Company (GTCO) -Chairman, NGX Regulation Ltd, a subsidiary of the Nigerian Exchange Group - An external member of CDC Group, the Development Finance Institution of the UK Government. -Member, Finance Council. Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos. -Member, Board of Trustees ICAN University

Cathy holds a first degree in Accountancy from the University of Nigeria, a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Maryland, University College, USA. She became a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria in year 2000 and a Certified Information Systems Auditor in 2005.

Dr. Yemi Johnson is an intervention cardiologist who trained in Columbia University New York and Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda California. He worked in Mid Carolina Cardiology, Charlotte North Carolina and Wake Forest University Medical Center Winston North Carolina.Since starting FCC, he has pioneered contemporary invasive cardiology in Nigeria including the first coronary angioplasty with stent implantation, first non-surgical (percutaneous) closure of holes in the heart for children and adults; and now performs these procedures routinely.

Dr. Johnson has also established a non-surgical peripheral vascular disease program to restore blood flow to blocked arteries of the arms and legs. This program has helped salvage several limbs which hitherto would have been amputated due to poor circulation. He has also initiated a busy pacemaker and implantable defibrillator program which offers prophylactic and therapeutic care to Patients with advanced cardiac failure.

Dr. Kofo Ogunyankin the Co Medical Director is a cardiologist and a specialist in echocardiography. He trained in the United Kingdom being a member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1991 as well as State University of Stony Brook Long Island New York, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and Tufts University New England Medical Center Boston. He has been in academic practice and worked in Columbia University New York, Queens University in Kingston Ontario Canada, Northwestern University and Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute Chicago.

His research interests include early detection of heart disease including hypertensive heart disease using echocardiography.The echocardiographic laboratory at FCC is now the only Center in Africa designated by the World Alliance of Societies of Echocardiography (WASE) for the international multicenter study for deriving normative values of various echocardiographic measurements.

Pascal Gabriel Dozie is the founder and former Chairman of Diamond Bank Plc. On the contrary, the business guru is not only making waves in the banking sector. He is also an accomplished investor with stakes in several highly rated industries including MTN Group. In addition to that, Pascal Dozie is the Chairman of Pan-Atlantic University and the founding partner of Africa Capital Alliance.

Mohammed Hayatu-Deen is the Chairman of the Renaissance Development Forum. He is an experienced banker, economist, project finance executive, administrator, and elder statesman with about forty years’ experience across multiple Nigerian industries.

Hayatu-Deen started his career working in principal investments and project finance at the Northern Nigeria Development Corporation (subsequently New Nigeria Development Corporation) which at the time was Nigeria’s largest industrial holding company with investments across a range of industries, where he rapidly rose to the position of Group Chief Executive and was responsible for providing leadership, direction, and oversight to 140 subsidiary and associate companies under the group portfolio.

He was subsequently appointed to head FSB International Bank – previously the moribund Federal Savings Bank: with a mandate to turn around and transform the institution into a viable and profitable commercial bank. Hayatu-Deen was able to transform FSB into a major Commercial Bank in Nigeria, which represents the best case of turnaround management and privatization in Nigeria.

He founded the Alpine Group in 2005 – a project development company focused on intervening in high- growth sectors of the economy through direct investments. He currently holds the position of Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Alpine Investments Ltd. Alpine’s flagship project, the Ado Bayero Mall in Kano which has just been commissioned is currently the largest shopping mall in operation in West Africa.

During his career, Hayatu-Deen has brought his broad experience in Corporate and Investment Banking, Organizational Transformation, and Project Management to various capacities in other organizations. He has been Chairman/Director of several organizations including; Nigerian Stock Exchange (Council Member), Northern Nigeria Investments Limited, Nigeria Hotels Limited, Kaduna Textiles Limited, New Nigeria Construction Company, Benue Cement Company, Sokoto Cement Company Northern Nigeria, Virgin Nigeria Limited, Seven-Up Bottling Company, PZ Cussons, Inlaks Computers Limited, among many others.

Kehinde Durosinmi-Etti has over three decades of management and leadership experience as a Chartered Accountant and Banker. After a stint in audit practice; he started his banking career in 1987 when he joined the Nigerian-American Merchant Bank Limited (an Affiliate of Bank of Boston). Out of the 27 years career span in Banking and other financial services, sixteen of these years were spent in top leadership positions as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of three different Banks in Nigeria, Midas Bank in 1995, Eko International Bank in 2002 and Skye Bank in 2010 and each time leaving on his own volition.

Durosinmi-Etti has been variously described as a leader, an astute Banker, turnaround expert, a paradigm of professionalism with experience that cuts across Operations, Technology, Treasury, Corporate and Investment Banking. He is a highly experienced Chief Executive Officer with integrated expertise in local and global financial markets, corporate strategy and experience in boardroom and corporate governance issues.          

He holds a first degree in Economics from the University of lbadan and he is a Fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants (FCCA) United Kingdom.

A fellow of the Chartered Institute of Accountants of Nigeria and a member of the Governing Council of the Musical Society of Nigeria. Mr. Emanuel chairs the Board of several companies including Saipem Nigeria Limited, Borini Prono, Hogg Robinson Nigeria, Nigeria Life and pension, Universe-Re, etc and sits on the Board of several others. A member of African Business Roundtable, Mr. Emanuel is a very active member of the Nigerian Private sector, and a philanthropist of note. He also holds a honorary doctorate degree of the Federal University of Technology, Akure.

Cynthia Egbai has a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. In her over 12 years of experience, she has pioneered the setup of various medical and specialist facilities which include Diagnostic and Therapeutic Endoscopy Centre (D&TEC) whose core goal was creating required awareness for colorectal and gastric cancers; also, bariatric surgery as part of weight management. She assisted in the setup of D&TET (Diagnostic and Therapeutic Endoscopy Training) a sister company offering training to local clinicians in the endoscopy space in a bid to ensure sustainability by growing skill base in Nigeria.

She left D&TEC to become COO of South Shore Women’s Centre where she set up the pediatric wing aiding the rebranding of the facility to South Shore Women’s and Children’s Hospital.

She is presently Practice Manager at First Cardiology Consultants and on the board of Healthy Heart Foundation as Executive Administrator; manning the daily activities of both entities.