Amb. Dr Amaka Diane Okeke: Quintessential leader, wealth retention professional, goal-oriented woman

Ambassador Dr Amaka Diane Okeke is a quintessential leader, wealth retention professional, personal finance specialist, investment consultant, and a focused, goal-oriented woman.

The Executive Director of Business Development at Optiva Capital Partners—Africa’s foremost wealth retention and investment firm—is a visionary leader and trailblazer whose compassion and foresight are positively transforming lives, particularly among the youth.

Renowned for delivering well-crafted investment opportunities, she has built a successful and enviable career in the financial sector that has spanned over a decade with a focus on investment immigration, international real estate, and insurance services.

Through due diligence, resilience, and astute analysis of the financial sector, Ambassador Amaka has supported in the growth of Optiva Capital Partners from an insurance brokerage into a full-fledged wealth retention company, focusing on diverse portfolios.

Her strength lies in her ability to inspire and motivate the team. She has helped build the franchise by consistently achieving superior results, establishing a clear vision, mission, and values, understanding the organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, and the culture of continuous improvement by providing opportunities for growth and development, providing effective leadership that creates a culture of trust, transparency, and accountability.

With over a decade of experience, Optiva Capital Partners—guided by the strategic acumen of her leadership—has secured a significant share of the financial market, consistently delivering superior services to its clients.

Her skill in articulating a clear business vision, mission, and values has motivated her team to pay keen attention to detail and to go the extra mile for every client.

By creating a robust managerial structure that identifies her firm’s strengths and opportunities, while embracing a culture of continuous improvement, she has effectively nurtured talent and cultivated a team committed to trust, transparency, and accountability.

This distinctive approach has enabled her firm to provide services that not only preserve and grow wealth but also strengthen long-term client relationships built on integrity.

The Pan-African businesswoman, known for her focus and goal-oriented approach, began her early education at St. Monica’s Montessori Children’s School in Isolo, Lagos, before proceeding to Apata Memorial High School, also in Isolo, for her secondary education. She later gained admission into the University of Lagos, Akoka, where she studied Sociology and graduated with distinction, laying the foundation for her successful career in finance and business.

In addition to her academic background in Sociology, Okeke is a Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) and also holds the Certification of Capability in Business Analysis (CCBA).

Over the years, this wealth builder has distinguished herself by cultivating a reputation of integrity and excellence at Optiva Capital Partners. Under her leadership, the firm has transformed from a single location to over 19 state-of-the-art branches, and from 15 employees to over 1,000 seasoned professionals, leveraging their international partnerships, to provide well-crafted investment opportunities to high-net-worth individuals across jurisdictions, asset classes, and currencies to grow and optimize their wealth.

She began her journey at Optiva Capital Partners in 2013 as a trainee and worked her way up to become a Relationship Management Executive. Over the years, she grew through the ranks with dedication, remarkable performance, exceptional leadership, and result-driven approach, which earned her appointment as General Manager, and in March 2023, she became the Executive Director, Business Development.

In this role, she oversees the development and implementation of business strategies, identifying potential locations for branch expansion, providing leadership and strategic direction to the organization, work tools for business development, team training and development, institutional operations, social media marketing, and generally overseeing the business development of the firm. This achievement is a testament to her exceptional dedication to the organization and its stakeholders.

She also drives branch expansion across key markets and equips her teams with the tools, training, and leadership needed to deliver exceptional service. She spearheads institutional operations and leverages digital platforms to advance the firm’s visibility and impact.

Only in October 2025, she marked her 12th anniversary with Optiva Capital Partners — a testament to her resilience, vision, and unrelenting commitment to building the largest provider of Investment Immigration services across Africa.

Her leadership style is marked by a strategic application of cutting-edge marketing and communication strategies, driving substantial growth for B2C businesses. Within her team are experts whose areas of specialization include business analysis, cross-cultural team management, and marketing campaign enhancement.

Amb. Amaka Okeke has emerged as one of the prominent voices in the country advocating for Youth and Women empowerment and increased investment in technology, with a firm belief that equipping young people with the right skills and opportunities is key to fostering gainful employment and national development. This is evident in their workforce, where 70 percent are youth and women.

She has also drawn attention to the need for investment-savvy Nigerians to save long-term through investment immigration with a commitment to help High-Net-Worth individuals maximize the wealth they have built.

Her beautiful nature, intelligence, and great fashion taste easily magnetized the youth to her like bees to a honeycomb, and they always aspire to be like her since she has achieved so much at such a young age. Through her tutelage, many youths have carved out exceptional careers in business development and marketing, and many have become wealth retention specialists.

Beyond her professional achievements, Ambassador Amaka Diane Okeke is a philanthropist. She stands out as a mentor and advocate for nurturing the potential of others, particularly the younger generation.

Dr. Okeke is enthusiastic about giving back to society and has actively engaged in multiple sponsorships and promotional initiatives aimed at enhancing and elevating the nation’s tourism landscape. Optiva Capital Partners is the vehicle in achieving all these and much more, as the organization understands talent. For example, in July, at the She Can 6.0 Conference, themed “Do More” — a women’s empowerment initiative, which had over 7000 women in attendance, dedicated to equipping and inspiring women to break barriers and reach their full potential — the Ambassador delivered a talk titled “Navigating Your Way to Leadership.” Her presentation, using her very own story, focused on mentoring, motivating, and guiding women to embrace opportunities, develop their strengths, and rise confidently into leadership roles.

She also engineered the sponsorship of the women empowerment programme ‘Be More’ with ChinneyLove, which was aimed at mentoring, coaching, encouraging, and lifting women to become better versions of themselves by maximizing their full potential, and financially supported new and existing business ventures.

She supported the ‘Doam’ Foundation Annual Charity with the goal of helping the less privileged children from the streets and putting smiles on their faces.

She spearheaded the sponsorship of many shows and concerts, such as the partnership with Eko Hotel “Tropical Christmas Wonderland” in December, the Responsible Funnybone Live in concert (Lagos), Pencil Unbroken show in Abuja and Lagos, and Alibaba’s January 1st Concert.

Optiva Capital Partners sponsored the epic movie from the Nollywood stables, titled ‘Afàméfùnà: Nwa Boi Story featuring Stan Nze and Alex Ekubo, and a movie titled ‘Kiss of Death’ shot in the Northern part of Nigeria.

Ambassador Amaka Diane Okeke has been a recipient of prestigious awards and commendations. She is an “Ambassador At Large” for the African Union Agenda 2063 Ambassadorial Assembly, a Fellow of the prestigious Institute of Credit Administrators (FICA). She is a member of Women in Management, Business, and Public Service (WIMBIZ).

Ambassador Amaka received an award from the Pan African Leadership Foundation for the 100 Most Influential Young Africans 2025 in Accra, Ghana. She was recognized as the Influential Female Executive of the Year 2024 by Business Day. She received the ‘100 Persons of the Year’ award from 40 under 40 Nigeria and was honoured in October 2024 as the “Most Supportive Executive Director” of the year for Business Growth, Expansion, and Consolidation by the National Institute of Credit Administration (NICA). She was recognized as one of the Top 20 Most Inspiring Women by The Lekki Post (TLP), she received the Woman of Integrity &Patriot of the Year Award 2024 by the NACJ, and the Youth Icon award as the Future Shaper by GMTY Group.

Through her success, Optiva Capital Partners received the award for ‘Outstanding Investment Immigration Company of the Year 2024 by New Telegraph, the Market Innovator Award 2023 by GMTY Group, the special recognition award by Africa Real Estate Summit as the International Real Estate Investment Company of the Year for its contribution to the growth and development of Africa’s Real Estate, Best Overall Non-Oil & Gas Sector, awarded by the Nigerian Association of Petroleum Explorationists (NAPE)2021, among other awards.