Access to finance
Closing funding gaps for hospitals, pharmaceutical businesses and other healthcare enterprises, and matching capital to the long cycle of healthcare infrastructure.
Health & Health Finance
Bridging clinical insight and financial opportunity.
Dr Oluwafemi Olaleye — Revd (Dr) Femi Olaleye — is a medical doctor, healthcare-finance executive and business strategist. His career runs from clinical practice and hospital leadership through health insurance into specialist banking.
He brings a practical understanding of healthcare delivery to the work of helping healthcare enterprises reach capital, strengthen their businesses and grow in a way that can last.
- Group Head, Health Finance
- Sterling Bank
- Since March 2025
Current leadership
Where care and capital meet
As Group Head, Health Finance at Sterling Bank, a role he has held since March 2025, he works at the intersection of healthcare enterprise, finance and strategy. The focus is on closing funding gaps and widening access to capital across the healthcare ecosystem, with attention to how healthcare businesses actually operate.
That work draws on the full path below: the ward and the hospital, the relationship between providers and an HMO, and later years in healthcare banking, including Head of Health Sector Banking at FSDH Merchant Bank before the return to Sterling.
Professional foundation: M.B.B.S., College of Medicine, University of Lagos.
A career across the healthcare value chain
From the bedside to the balance sheet
Healthcare financing, in his practice, starts from the operational realities of the organisations that deliver care.
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Medicine
Clinical practice
The journey began in medicine and clinical operations, after the M.B.B.S. at the College of Medicine, University of Lagos.
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Hospital leadership
Modern Care Hospital
Chief Executive Officer. First-hand responsibility for hospital management, and for delivering care inside a business that still has to remain sustainable.
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Health insurance
Hygeia HMO
Provider relations: bringing the perspective of healthcare providers and the perspective of health insurance into the same conversation.
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Healthcare banking
Sterling Bank
Regional Health Finance Manager, applying clinical and provider experience to how healthcare businesses are financed.
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Sector banking
FSDH Merchant Bank
Head of Health Sector Banking, before his return to Sterling.
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Since March 2025
Sterling Bank
Group Head, Health Finance.
Ideas that shape the work
Capital that understands care
Public commentary on investment readiness, cash flow, and business models that can carry a healthcare enterprise beyond the building itself.
Cash-flow assessment
Lending and investment judgements that take the cash flow of a healthcare business seriously, rather than treating collateral as the whole story.
Sustainable enterprises
Patient capital, investment readiness, and primary healthcare built as a durable business. Infrastructure on its own is not a model of care.
Speaking and sector dialogue
In the room with operators and investors
He contributes to conversations that connect healthcare operators, investors and emerging entrepreneurs, including financial literacy for people building health businesses and a clearer account of provider–payer relationships.
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Programmes
Equipping health entrepreneurs
With the ABCHealth Academy for Health Entrepreneurs he teaches the financial basics of a health business: cash-flow discipline, budgeting, governance, projections and investor readiness.
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Writing and interviews
Insights and media
Hospital sustainability, pharmaceutical supply, and the financial pressure on providers and HMOs.
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Hospital sustainability · BusinessDay, 9 April 2024
Operating costs, consolidation, and the financial pressure on hospitals, providers and HMOs.
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The healthcare value chain · BusinessDay, 15 January 2024
Pharmaceutical supply, technology, and the effects of inflation and foreign exchange on healthcare businesses.
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Professional profile
Public LinkedIn profile for Dr Oluwafemi Olaleye. Further notes on cash-flow lending and on hospital economics are linked from the sections above.
Speaking themes
Healthcare financing and access to capital
Sustainable hospital business models
Financial literacy for health entrepreneurs
Patient capital and investment readiness
Provider–payer relationships
Healthcare enterprises at scale
Also on this site
Ministry, books, and a direct note
Alongside this professional work he is Pioneer and Global Senior Pastor of Oikia Christian Centre. Books, the Supernatural course, and ministry life remain on the home page. Professional enquiries can use the existing contact form.
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