Austine has over 22 years of professional experience in management, business advisory, corporate finance, strategy, management consulting, investment and commercial banking spanning oil and gas, power, banking, construction, real estate and FMCG sectors.

He spent the last nine (9) years as the group chief operating officer of CET Energy Limited before leaving in March 2023. Austine started his career in 1999 as a sales executive in Seafoods Nigeria Limited before joining the Investment Banking subsidiary of Standard Trust Bank Plc. Austine left Standard Trust Bank Plc in 2005 to manage his family-owned real estate and construction company before joining Nextzon Business Services, where he initially spent 5 years as a Partner and the Head of Financial Services and Payment strategic business unit (SBU) under the Ventures and Business Advisory arm of the practice.

Austine is a first-class engineering graduate of the University of Ibadan-Nigeria and has a Master’s degree in Financial Services Management from Salford University, United Kingdom. He has attended several foreign and local courses in financial analysis, project management, and capital raising.