Professor Olalekan Asikhia is the DVC, Research, Innovation and Strategy at Caleb University, Lagos State. He was the past Director of Center for Financial Studies of Chartered Institute of Bankers, and Research Professor at School of Business Leadership, University of South Africa, and won a grant of Poverty/SMEs studies worth R700,000 per year for 2 years, making a total of R1.4 million. He was also a past Head of the department and acting dean. He had supervised and graduated over ninety-two (92) doctoral candidates and twenty-four (24) master degree candidates. He has over one hundred and thirty-three (133) publications. Olalekan Asikhia is a Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Marketing. He is a member of the economics and statistics committee of Lagos Chambers of Commerce and Industry. He is married to Busayo Asikhia and blessed with two children.