Amadiebube Mbama, President, Mbama & Associates LLC (LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD)
THE TOP10 MAGAZINE DIASPORA PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR
Mr. Amadiebube Mbama must be a very fulfilled man, professionally. As a leading accountant, anti-money laundering and conter terrorism financing expert, he has accomplished so much in different roles over the years in the US and for his people in the diaspora and back home in Nigeria.
Mbama who is the President, MBAMA & Associates LLC, a Georgia, US-based firm of financial consultants, was a former online faculty member of Accounting and Finance classes at the University of Phoenix. He was a Supervisor with the Department of Financial Institutions, State of California. He has a BS in Accounting and MBA in Finance & Banking both from the University of San Francisco, California. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, a Chartered Global Management Accountant, and a Certified Financial Forensics, a Certified Public Accountant.
He helped to develop training and also train money transmitter regulators association examiners (MTRA). MTRA is an arm of various state banking department/financial institutions regulatory agencies that specialize in transmitters of money abroad, payment instruments issuers and travelers check issuers. He is an anti-money laundering consultant for many financial institutions in the U.S.
He was a former Financial Institutions Supervisor. As a Financial Institutions Supervisor, he was responsible for the senior, mid and entry level Financial Institutions Examiners. He assisted in planning, organizing, and implementing the examination programme and regulatory oversight for a group of licensees. Prior to being promoted to this supervisory position, he was a Senior Financial Institutions Examiner with the Department of Financial Institutions, State of California. As a senior examiner, he was appointed by the Commissioner of Financial Institutions to the Internet Task Force and Special Licensees Task force.
Mr. Amadiebube was also one of the point persons during the Y2K conversion. In December 2002, he was awarded a rare State of California Superior Accomplishment Award and in the same month, he was awarded a Team Player of the Year Award by the Department of Financial Institutions for exhibiting a positive attitude, inspiring others to excel, and his contributions that continuously exceed expectations. Prior to joining the Department of Financial Institutions, Amadiebube was Savings and Loan Examiner for the State of California and was involved in examining troubled Savings and Loans during the Savings and Loan crises.
An active member of his community, Mr. Amadiebube is currently the Coordinator of the Global Igbo Leaders of the various Igbo organizations. He was the past Chairman of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) USA District Society, a former Chairman of the Board of Trustees and a current member of the Board of Trustees. He is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Atlanta Igbo School. He was a former President of the Nigerian American Chamber of Commerce. He was a former Diaspora representative for Southeast Nigeria Economic Commission (SENEC). He was a former President of the Council of Igbo States in the Americas and current Vice Chairman of the Board.
He was one of the 54-member committee appointed to develop a blueprint to develop the Igboland. In 2004 and 2005, he was the former President of the Parish Council of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in El Cerrito, California, and prior to that, he served as a member of the Finance Committee of the parish for seven years.
Mr. Amadiebube is being conferred with the Top10 Magazine’s Nigerian Diaspora Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his expertise and professional accomplishments in Accountancy, Anti-money laundering and counter terrorism financing.
