Category: Top Management

Ten years after leaving the group he co-founded with his friend and business partner Herbet Wigwe, who died in the USA on 9 February, nigerian banker and businessman Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede has been appointed non-executive Chairman of the Board of the Access Corporation Group, parent company of Access Bank and other subsidiaries of the group. “Access […]

Appointed at the beginning of November, Mohamed Kande is the first African to become Chairman of one of the world’s four largest financial audit and consulting firms, known as the “Big Four”. He also becomes the first consulting partner to lead PwC, a firm traditionally focused on audit and tax, sectors that generate $53 billion […]

The 47-year-old banker becomes the first woman to be appointed CEO of FirstRand Ltd, one of Africa’s largest financial services groups and one of Africa’s largest lenders by market value, with over 50,000 employees. FirstRand operates in Africa and the UK, where it owns Aldermore, a UK specialist lender, which includes MotoNovo, a leading vehicle […]

On Tuesday, September 5, Gooogle has announced the appointment of Alex Okosi as the new Managing Director of its activities on the African continent. Originally from Nigeria, he replaces his compatriot Juliet Ehimuan, who recently resigned from her position. Google has been operating in Africa for over a decade and has offices in Ghana, Kenya, […]

Appointed Managing Director of Société nationale d’opérations pétrolières de Côte d’Ivoire (PETROCI) on Tuesday July 18, Fatoumata M’Balou Sanogo replaces former Managing Director Vamissa Bamba, who took up his post on August 6, 2021. Founded in 1975, PETROCI Holding’s main objective is to “Build an integrated and diversified petroleum economy, by optimizing efforts to find […]

Sarah Mensah, currently Nike’s Vice President and General Manager for North America, will become President of Jordan Brand, the first woman to hold this position. Established in 1997 as a subsidiary of the Nike brand, Jordan Brand, named after former Chicago Bulls NBA player Michael Jordan, specializes in the production of sports footwear, apparel and […]

The Gambian banker is the CEO of Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria and West Africa since December 2018. In his new position, he will still be based in Nigeria . In Africa, Standard Chartered Bank operates in 16 countries: Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Gambia, Uganda, […]

Since March 2019, Lillian Barnard is the Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft South Africa, the first woman to hold this position since Microsoft reinvested in the country in the early 1990s. She is replaced in this position by Kalane Rampai, who becomes Managing Director of Microsoft SA. “The new appointments are an important milestone in […]

Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI), the parent company of the Ecobank Group, the leading pan-African banking group, has announced, on March 2, that kenyan Jeremy Awori has officially assumed his role as Chief Executive Officer of the Ecobank Group. He takes over from Ade Ayeyemi and was appointed on September 2022. Jeremy Awori brings with him […]

Ecobank Group has announced, on February 20, the appointment of Ghanaian career banker, Mrs. Josephine Anan-Ankomah as the Regional Executive, Central, Eastern and Southern African (CESA) and Managing Director, Ecobank Kenya. She replaces Senegalese Cheikh Travaly who retired in December 2022 after 21 years at the Bank and after attaining the mandatory retirement age of […]