While at NAMBL, he had varied experiences including capital raising, corporate restructuring and financial advisory, mergers & acquisitions and specialised credits. His career later took him to UBA Plc where he handled major relationships in the public and commercial banking sectors of the bank as Group Head in charge of Midwestern region. He returned to Investment Banking in UBA Plc setting up UBA Securities Limited which changed to UBA Global Markets and later UBA Capital. Efe joined Dunn Loren Merrifield as pioneer Executive Director and resigned in May 2011 to join two other entrepreneurs to set up Planet Capital Limited.

Efe has been involved in landmark transactions for both corporate and government institutions raising capital in excess of US$5billion for the following clients amongst others: Nigerian Bottling Company Plc (Coca Cola Group), Ashaka Cement Plc (Lafarge Group), UBA Plc, Dangote Flour Plc (Dangote Group), First City Monument Bank Plc, Imo State & Ebonyi State Governments of Nigeria (ISPO-backed Bonds), etc. Efe is a Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) registered capital market operator. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) and an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria, holds an MSc in Financial Analysis and Fund Management from the University of Exeter, United Kingdom, an MBA from the University of Lagos and a BSc. Honours degree in Business Administration from the University of Benin. He was a university scholar and the best graduating student in his department