Empathy
We understand that we are all building up from different starting points and hence we embrace peculiarities on size of income, individual background and more.
We help people know enough about money to fund the life of their dreams.
The Green Investment Club (TGIC) is a community-based investment club focused on helping young people live the lives they want by providing access to financial education, insights and investment opportunities towards achieving their financial goals.
We hold 3 values dear;
Integrity
Due diligence is our barest minimum, and we do not shy away from telling the truth, every step of the way.
Innovation
We are constantly exploring new ways, approaches and mediums to create more value for our members.
It all began with a simple mission
We have all either heard or had our own share of sad investment experiences, from the profits that never returned to opportunities we heard about only after it sold out. Most times, you don't even know where to begin from. With careers (outside finance) to prioritize, it is often hard for most people to do the due diligence that investment requires.
That financial education and diligence is exactly what Tomie Balogun took upon herself. In 2013, she started an investment club with four other MBA classmates at the time. They would pool individual funds together to get access to bigger investment opportunities; share the rewards and risks; and hold each accountable to their financial goals.
3 years on, The Green Investment Club boasts of over 1000 members, making it the largest in Nigeria and with diaspora membership from 20 other countries, as well as investments worth over $9 million, and a mission that continues to yield results, with more people getting closer to financial freedom.
Community helping communities
Beyond our paid membership system, we also support social and communal development through the TGIC Social Responsibility Fund which we have deployed to support a number of initiatives. These include our support of Ideation Hub Africa’s work towards sustainable social change; a recent partnership with LSETF to raise funds for a business to recover from the recent looting in Lagos state; and taking it upon ourselves to sponsor 10 children to school every year through the Bethesda Child Support Agency (a part of Freedom Foundation).
Members of our TGIC advisory board
We have recently selected some of our full-time members to make up our board of advisors and contribute to the leadership of the organization as we fulfil our mission to deliver great value for the community.
Abimbola Odedeyi
Member since May 2018
Abimbola is a seasoned professional with over eleven (11) years of in-depth experience in the financial services industry, having worked with GTBank, United Bank for Africa and Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System PLC. She is a graduate of the University of Ibadan (BSc.) and Bradford University School of Management. She currently serves as the Country Manager, Nigeria at Unlimint, a fast-growing global Fintech with 14 offices worldwide.
Adenike Mantey
Member since February 2019
Adenike is an experienced trade and investment specialist expert with over 15 years’ experience advising the Nigerian Government on trade and investment policy and strategy. In her current role as a consultant to the World Bank, she is responsible for spear-heading private sector investment opportunities and helping to attract FDI and increase Global Value Chain (GVC) participation.
Wale Salami
Member since July 2018
Wale Salami is a Nigerian-American IT professional, Army veteran, and investor with over 10 years’ experience working in world-class organizations like the Commonwealth Secretariat, U.S. Army, FedEx, HP Enterprise and Amazon. Currently, he is a Technical Sales Specialist with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Founder and Director at Texas Digital Magnate, a venture capital firm focused on North America and West African market opportunities.
Mayowa Kuyoro
Member since March 2019
As an Associate Partner, Mayowa co-leads McKinsey’s women’s initiative in West Africa. Her experience cuts across consulting for government leaders, as well as the social and private sector, on corporate strategy, financial analysis and more. She is passionate about the role that access to finance can play in Africa’s growth and development, and is the co-author of Roaring to Life: Growth and innovation in African retail banking. She is an alumnus of the University of Warwick and Harvard Business School.
Olushola Oladipupo
Member since January 2020
Olushola is an experienced Data Analyst with a proven track record of driving strategic insights and business decisions. He is a graduate of the University of Ibadan and the Bournemouth University, where he won the prestigious Faculty of Management Executive Deen's Scholarship award. He currently works with the NHS in England and was one of the invited guest speakers at the 2019 Faculty of Management Postgraduate Research Conference.
Segun Dada
Member since September 2018
Segun is an accomplished leader in the energy sector. He is responsible for building and executing the sub-saharan African region’s channel sales strategy for one of the world’s leading oil & gas services company. He obtained his MBA in Business Management from the Lagos Business School and is founder of Kawe Africa, an initiative geared towards promoting reading and education on the African continent.He is an alumni of the Harvard Business School Program - CORe
Tomie Balogun
Member since Inception
Our founder, Tomie is a certified financial educator who has successfully educated 100,000+ millennials across Africa. As part of her broad experience, she has sourced direct investment opportunities in the capital markets and implemented crucial investment interventions for SMEs acrossmultiple sectors such as agriculture, real estate, consumer lending, logistics. Prior to establishing TGIC, She led on product design and implementation for West Africa at Greystone Partners, was a selected young leader on the prestigious Bharti Airtel young leadership program and is an alumi of the Harvard Fintech program