Currently, Mrs. Taylaur serves as the Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer at the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA).

Prior to joining NSIA, Ijeoma was an Executive Director at Alpha African Advisory (AAA) –formerly Travant Capital Partners, an Africa-focused financial advisory firm. Here, she led the gateway services division, providing a range of market entry assistance services. She also played a pivotal role in the origination and execution of financial and business advisory mandates which included financial restructuring, due diligence, and valuation transactions. Additionally, she managed all aspects of the Finance & Accounting function. During her tenure at Travant Capital Partners, she was responsible for investor relations, fund administration, and fund accounting services in managing a partially deployed US$107M private equity fund (Travant Private Equity Fund 1).

Before her roles at AAA / Travant Capital Partners, Ijeoma spent over 10 years with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in their Lagos and London offices. At PwC, she managed teams providing external audit assurance and business advisory services to companies within a broad range of sectors, including banks, financial services institutions, and multinational upstream companies.

Ijeoma holds a bachelor’s degree in Accountancy and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (FCA). She is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria and the Chartered Institute of Directors (IoD).