Sam Chidoka has over 16 years experience in banking, debt & equities capital markets, mergers & acquisitions, and financial advisory services. He began his investment banking career at the capital markets group of NAL Bank Plc, now Sterling Bank Plc. He was a core member of the corporate finance team at Sterling Capital Markets Limited from where he moved to UBA Global Markets, which later became UBA Capital Plc.

He left UBA Capital to become a pioneer staff and head of Corporate Finance at Dunn Loren Merrifield from where he moved to Planet Capital Limited as an Associate Director, and later Director & head Corporate Finance Advisory Group. He is currently the Managing Director of Kairos Capital.

Sam worked on numerous high-profile transactions, raising in excess of $1.5 billion for various institutions including Union Bank of Nigeria Plc, May & Baker Plc, Continental Reinsurance Plc, Eternal Oil & Gas Plc, Dangote Flour Plc, Niger State Government, Chams Plc, Ebonyi State Government, Chellarams Plc, Tower Aluminium Group, Dana Group of Companies Plc, Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria, Niger State Government, Bauchi State Government, Fidelity Bank Plc, C&I Leasing Plc amongst others.

He holds a BSc. Degree (2.1) in Business Management from the University of Nigeria Enugu Campus {1999) and an MBA (Finance), from the University of Lagos (2015). He has attended a number of executive courses: Lagos Business School – Chief Executive Program {2015) and IESE Business School, Barcelona Spain – Advanced Management Program {2015).