Dapo Ako

Dapo Ako

  • Deputy CEO and Partner
  • J. Awan & Partners

Dapo is a Managing Director of the Compliance Division of j. awan & partners and is also the head of the Abu Dhabi office. Dapo has over 20 years’ experience working in the financial services industry with the last 13 years spent in risk & compliance roles working for the UK regulator, Financial Services Authority (now FCA) and two leading financial institutions; UBS Investment Bank and Lloyds Bank. As a firm supervisor at the FSA’s Retail Firms Division, he led and delivered several risk assessments by adopting appropriate methodologies to determine and ensure financial soundness. His roles at UBS cut across IB Trade Surveillance monitoring, Team Lead for EMEA Employee Compliance responsible for managing Employee Conflicts of Interest and was an Executive Director overseeing the Conduct Risk Change program. In between his roles at UBS, he spent 18months at Lloyds Bank assessing the mis-selling of interest rate derivatives to retail customers. Dapo has a Bachelor and Masters degree in Economics and an MBA from Imperial College Business School, London. He is an Associate Member of the Professional Risk Managers International Association.