About Hosmak Solutions

I’ve spent my career on every side of the table this work is done at.

I started in audit at Coopers & Lybrand in Lagos in 1995, and spent my first decade in public practice and then leading a bank’s internal IT audit unit — writing findings, and learning early that a finding nobody acts on is just paperwork with a date on it.

Then eleven years in Big 4 advisory, at PwC in Lagos and Vancouver and EY in Toronto, delivering more than fifty technology governance, risk and controls engagements for financial services clients. That’s where I learned what good looks like across many organizations — and how often frameworks are built to impress the person assessing them rather than to be operated by the people who own them.

Then nearly a decade inside one of Canada’s five largest banks, building enterprise technology risk governance from the inside: the process, risk and control framework, the risk appetite statement and KRI suite, the issue management routines, and the technology risk reporting that went to executive and board risk committees. I sat in the meetings where remediation owners explained slipped dates. Sometimes I was the one asking why. That decade taught me the thing consulting alone never could: which parts of governance actually get used, and which parts quietly die the week the consultant leaves.

I founded Hosmak Solutions because the firms that most need that experience are the ones least able to buy it at institutional prices.

It’s a privilege to put all of that to work for the small and medium-sized institutions building and strengthening their technology governance, risk and controls practices.

— Bunmi Makinde, Founder