Prior to founding Harvest Capital, Winston was most recently the Group Head Securities and Asset management for Ecobank Capital with responsibility for all asset management and brokerage business for the group. Before joining Ecobank, Winston was the CEO of Access Investment & Securities; the asset management subsidiary of Access Bank Plc and was the head of Asset Management at Afrinvest West Africa Ltd.
Winston began his career in financial services with Van Kampen Funds Inc. and then on to Valic American General (AIG), after which he joined the JP Morgan Chase in their Global Investor Services Business, and subsequently joined the Structured finance group of JP Morgan Chase. Winston’s last career stop prior to returning to Nigeria was with Lehman Brothers where he was part of the Wealth and Asset Management team.
Winston has an MBA from Cox School of Business and a bachelors degree in Finance from University of Houston(Downtown) where he graduated magna cum laude. Winston has held the NASD licenses (Series 6, 63 & 7) and is a frequent contributor to CNBC Africa.