UNITED KINGDOM, Rosyth : In this Ministry of Defence handout picture Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh (L) in a ship naming ceremony conducted at Rosyth Dockyard in Rosyth, Scotland on July 4, 2014. Queen Elizabeth II smashed a bottle of whisky against Britain’s biggest warship as she gave her name to the new aircraft carrier at a ceremony in Scotland.
By Princewill Ekwujuru
Chairman of Interswitch, Kenneth Olisa has been honoured with the Knight Bachelor for Services in Business and Philanthropy by Queen Elizabeth (II).
Sir Olisa is a Nigerian-born British businessman and philanthropist with career in technology that commenced at IBM and spans well over 40 years.
He founded and led the technology merchant bank Interregnum and is also the founder and chairman of Restoration Partners, an independent boutique technology merchant bank, reputed as architects of the Virtual Technology Cluster model. He is currently a director of Thomson Reuters. In 2015, he became the first black Lord-Lieutenant of Greater London having been appointed by Her Majesty the Queen.
Commenting on the development, Group CEO of Interswitch, Mitchell Elegbe remarked that, “Sir Ken has distinguished himself in professional and social spheres with a remarkable pedigree of service in the public domain. A leading light and embodiment of the maxim.
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