Teslim has in the last three decades, accumulated a rich and varied experience as a Stock Market/Investment Analyst, Commercial and Investment banker, and financial journalist. He has over 20 years of experience in Investment Banking.

He started his Investment Banking career twenty-four years ago at Capital Bancorp Limited, where for several years he headed the Investment Bank’s Corporate Finance and Research Group (where he was the Institutional Lead Officer in the First Lagos State Government N50 billion Revenue Bond and the equity flotation of defunct African Petroleum Plc under a Federal Government privatization programme). As part of his responsibilities at Capital Bancorp Limited, he also took direct charge of Capital Market research, Mergers and Acquisition mandates, debt origination assignments, and government privatization programmes, and became head of the Corporate Finance Group.

Shitta-Bey later joined City Express Bank Plc where he was responsible for the bank’s participation in Fixed Income debt origination (Ekiti State Government N4billion Revenue Bond) and other sundry equity and debt origination mandates. He was also responsible for Project Finance and Project Management. This placed him in a privileged position to oversee and complete a wide variety of financing mandates including leasing to the transport sector. In 2005, Shitta-Bey joined Capital Express Securities Limited as Chief Operating Officer and continued a variety of capital market mandates including the Private Placement and eventual listing of MTS First wireless. He subsequently became Managing Director of the weekly tabloid, Business Hallmark Newspaper. Shitta-Bey is presently the Managing Editor/Chief Economist at Proshare Nigeria Limited where he is also the Executive Director of Impact Research and Market Intelligence..