About Us

Sekinat Alao - Head of Operations
Haneef Abbas - CEO

Our Story

We are passionate about seeing businesses thrive, but we also understand that businesses are only as good as the people who run and work within them. This is why, in addition to our specialty of providing excellent financial advisory services to businesses via Leonine Investment Services, we established Leonine Learning.

Leonine Learning is a training business established in 2016 that helps individuals and businesses bridge their finance and business-related knowledge gap .

Our team of seasoned finance and investment professional’s train teams on tools that enhance their productivity, finance, and data analysis skills through our:

  •  Microsoft Productivity courses (PowerPoint, Word, Office 365)
  • Data analytics courses (Basic and Advanced Data Analytics in Excel)
  • Financial Modeling and Business Intelligence (Power Bi) courses amongst others

Since inception, we have trained over 1000 professionals across various industries and roles. Our individual clients are high performers in blue-chips such as GE, Sterling bank, KPMG, Deloitte.

Some of our corporate clients include PAC Capital, ARM, LSETF, PNG Gas amongst other notable companies

Meet Our Lead Instructors

Haneef Abbas

Haneef Abbas is the Chief Executive Officer of Leonine Investment Services Limited (“Leonine”). He is a finance professional with over 12 years experience in corporate finance, financial analysis, business intelligence, data analytics and financial modeling.
He has trained over 750+ professionals in finance and analytics across the globe. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a member of the Association of Chartered Accountant UK.
Haneef enjoys reading and playing chess
 

Ridwan Usman

Ridwan Usman is a senior analyst at Leonine Investment Services Limited with over 4 years’ experience in advising clients across various economic sector locally and internationally on energy, oil and gas, healthcare, financial services, and real estate. 
Ridwan is people driven and enjoys providing data driven actionable strategies and solutions to complex business problems faced by clients. 
He enjoys spending time with family and travelling during his spare time.

Ibrahim Lasisi

Ibrahim Lasisi is an analyst at Leonine Investment Services Limited with two years’ experience in project execution across oil and gas, agriculture, financial services, and renewable energy.
Ibrahim enjoys providing data driven, and action-oriented solutions to complex business problems using multiple skillsets to deliver optimum value for client. He enjoys travelling and watching documentaries during his spare time.

Habeeb Olusanya

Habeeb has a B.Sc in Mechanical Engineering with a first-class honour from the University of Lagos. 
He has 2 years’ experience working in corporate finance and investment banking on deals in the agriculture, manufacturing, power, financial sector, amongst others.
 He is also a candidate of the Association of Chartered Certificated Accountant (ACCA) exam (level II

Number Speaks

3

Training patners

4+

Countries

20+

Corporate Clients

1K+

Students

What Our Students Have to Say

The facilitator is a guru. Very engaging and very patient. I would use his services again and again.
Ndidiamaka Okpaluba
COO, Aluko & Oyebode
Leonine is doing a great job. Without mincing words, they are very good and up to the task. Excellent and Kudos to them all.
Abdullahi Akeem Ola
LIRS
Absolutely brilliant! From his presentation to managing the different complaints of the attendees as well as properly communicating in such a way that one gets to assimilate easily. That's really not an easy task but he managed all very brilliantly.

Evelyn Marshall
Asset Resource Management Company
The financial modeling classes were very exciting and insightful. My goal for taking the training was achieved without a doubt. The course curriculum is designed to allow in-depth understanding. Abbas is an excellent teacher. He understands the fundamentals and is able to communicate same. All questions were answered to our satisfaction “
Olalekan Ipele
PAC Capital
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