Anchoria Investment and Securities Limited was incorporated in 1994, and founded by late Chief (Dr) Isaac Olusola Dada who spent his early career in the Federal Civil Service, where he rose to the post of a Principal Secretary in 1983. He was the Special Assistant to three Secretaries to the Federal Military Government between 1983 and 1988. He later became the Director of Finance and Supplies in the Presidency in 1988. He was appointed Executive Director, of NAL Merchant Bank Plc, in 1993, the position he held until he co-founded Anchoria and became the pioneer Chief Executive Officer. He was a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Stockbroker and an Authorised Dealing Clerk of the Nigerian Stock Exchange.