Following the appointment of Herbert Wigwe as the Group Managing Director/ Chief Executive Officer, Access Holdings Plc., Roosevelt Ogbonna has now taken over as the new Managing Director of Access Bank Plc.
According to a statement from the bank, Ogbonna, who is presently the Deputy Managing Director of the bank, will assume office on May 2, 2022.
Ogbonna, who became Group Deputy Managing Director in 2017, has over 20 years’ experience in banking, cutting across Treasury, Commercial and Corporate Banking. He joined Access Bank in 2002 as a Manager from Guaranty Trust Bank Plc.
He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) and holds a second-class upper degree in Banking and Finance from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst and has attended Executive Management Development Programmes in several leading institutions.
According to the bank, Ogbonna represents the Bank on the boards of Access Bank (Zambia) Ltd, Central Securities Clearing System Plc, Africa Finance Corporation and The Access Bank (UK) Limited.
The statement also announced the appointments of Victor Etuokwu and Chizoma Okoli as Deputy Managing Director, Retail North and Deputy Managing Director, Retail South respectively. All three appointments have been approved by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), effective from May 2, 2022.
According to the statement, Etuokwu, who holds a Bachelor of Science degree and a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Ibadan and the University of Benin respectively was appointed an executive director of the bank in 2012 and his appointment was renewed in 2022 following the expiration of his second term.
Okoli, on the other hand, is a seasoned professional with three decades of banking experience. She obtained a Bachelor’s of Law degree from the University of Benin and a Master’s in Business Administration from Warwick Business School, United Kingdom.
She commenced her professional career in 1992 as an Executive Trainee in the defunct Diamond Bank Plc, where she distinguished herself and rapidly rose through the ranks to become an Executive Director in 2016.
She is also an honorary senior member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria and a member of the Institute of Credit Administration of Nigeria.
Meanwhile, Investors King gathered that Access Bank, on Monday, evolved into a holding company, with its entire 35.5 billion outstanding shares delisted from the daily official list of the Nigerian Exchange and relisted under a new parent company to be known as Access Holdings PLC.