Derrick is a seasoned professional with over 3 decades of cognate hands-on experience in the global financial services and consultancy industry.
His forte is identifying, developing and executing insightful, bespoke and niche solutions for clients. This drew him the acronym “Mr Niche”, as his strengths were drawn from swimming against the tide.
In the course of his career, he has had flints with trading on the floors of the New York Stock Exchange, and has won several accolades including, Best Overall Bank Manager in the United Bank of Africa (UBA) – one of Africa’s biggest banks. He resigned from traditional banking as the General Manager of one of the top banks, before setting up a FINTECH Microfinance bank in the heart of Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria.
In recent years, he developed interest in the luxury world of niche fragrances, where he is currently the founding director of CASCADES LUXURY LIMITED , an upscale luxury cosmetics organisation with interests in Nigeria, Ghana, the UK and Rwanda. Cascades Luxury is arguably the fastest growing NICHE ONLY fragrance company in Nigeria.
Consequently, Cascades Luxury are the exclusive agents to some of the finest fragrances in the world including StrangeLove, Pantheon Roma, Clive Christian, Boadicea the Victorious, Spirit of Kings, Fragrance Du Bois and several other award winning world class fragrances.
Mr Memeh holds an MBA from the University of Benin, Nigeria, and is an associate member of the chartered institute of stockbrokers. He is also a fellow of the chartered institute of bankers of Nigeria, and a certified microfinance banker. He possesses executive education certificates from the Wharton Business School, the Harvard Business School, Columbia Business School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), all in the USA. He is also an alumnus of the prestigious London Business School. He has a badge of honour on entrepreneurship from the London Open University.
He loves badminton, lawn tennis and creative literature.