Mrs. Hamda Ambah was the Managing Director/CEO of FSDH Merchant Bank Ltd from 2017 to 2021. Prior to that, she was an Executive Director in the same company from 2009 with responsibility for Corporate and Investment Banking. She also served as a non-executive director on the boards of FSDH Securities Ltd (now FSDH Capital Ltd), FSDH Asset Management Ltd and Pensions Alliance Ltd (PAL Pensions) for many years. Mrs. Ambah is currently an independent non-executive director on the boards of the Infrastructure Credit Guarantee Company Ltd (InfraCredit), ValuAlliance Asset Management Ltd and Rand Merchant Bank Nigeria Ltd.  She is also a member of the governing board of the Corona Schools Trust Council. Mrs. Ambah began her banking career at the International Merchant Bank Ltd (IMB) in December 1982 after securing an M.Sc in Management Science from the Imperial College of Science & Technology in England in September 1982. Before that, she had qualified with a B.Sc in Computer Science from the University of Lagos in June 1980.

Mrs. Ambah is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers and an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers.