Yerima (Dr.) Iliyasu B. Gashinbaki is the Co-Founder & Group Executive Director of ABIS GROUP, the foremost leading player in Nigeria and Africa’s growing livestock processing Industry. He has demonstrated exceptional resilience, agility, and dexterity in founding and setting up of institutions as listed below:

  • Founder/Pioneer President & Chairman Governing Council, Chartered Institute of Forensics and Certified Fraud Investigators of Nigeria (CIFCFIN), created by CIFCFIN (Establishment) Act of 2022.
  • Founder and Chairman of the MECA
    Group, with diversified interests
    spanning Agri-Tech, Engineering,
    Energy, and E-Commerce.
  • Founder & Global Partner, Discovery
    Circle Practitioners, a consulting
    company that provides multidisciplinary professional services covering tax, audit, forensic, and management consulting services.

He currently serves on several boards and councils, including the Adamawa State Bureau for Public Procurement (ASBPP), t h e C e n t r e f o r E n t r e p r e n e u r i a l Development at the University of Abuja, and the Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI), where he is Vice President, Finance. He previously served on the Board of the Nigeria Extractive Industry
Transparency Initiative (NEITI); Pioneer Board Chairman of the African Space Foundation, and as the representative of the Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Company (NSPMC) on the Inter-Agency
Team that facilitated the take-off of the E c o n o m i c a n d F i n a n c i a l C r i m e s Commission (EFCC), the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU), and the EFCC Academy.

Before all of the above, he has also served in various capacities in some public institutions such as; Office of the Chief Economic Adviser to the President of Nigeria; Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Company (NSPMC); Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), African Petroleum PLC
(formerly British Petroleum BP) and also as Policy Advisor Nigeria Governors’ Forum.

He holds a B.Sc. in Accounting and a Master’s Degree in Law Enforcement & Criminal Justice (MLC) from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria. In addition, he holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Corruption Studies from Hong Kong University and a
Doctorate Degree in Business Administration (DBA) from Bentwood University, California, United States of America.

He is a Chartered Accountant, Chartered
Tax Practitioner, Chartered Fraud
I n v e s t i g a t o r, C h a r t e r e d F o r e n s i c Accountant, Certified Fraud Examiner, and a fellow of several professional bodies.