Nigeria Bank Review

Mr. Abdulla AL KHALIFA Abdulla Mubarak Al Khalifa is the Executive General Manager and Chief Business Officer of the Qatar National Bank (QNB) Group, the largest bank in the Middle East and Africa, with a network spanning 30 countries. He has Group-wide responsibilities for QNB’s business functions, including Group Corporate and Institutional Banking, Retail Banking, International Banking Division, Group Treasury, Group Assets and Wealth Management, QNB Capital, and QNB Financial Services.   Abdulla joined QNB Group in 1996, subsequently holding a variety of executive positions and gaining extensive experience of strategic planning, sales & marketing, risk management, business partnerships, mergers and acquisitions and customer relations. Abdulla is also an Executive board member of QNB Capital, Qatar, QNB Al Ahli, Egypt, Housing Bank Trade & Finance, Jordan, and board member of QNB Finansbank, Turkey.  Abdulla holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from ...

Mr. Ade AYEYEMI Ade Ayeyemi, was appointed Group Chief Executive Officer of Ecobank in June 2015 and assumed office on September 1, 2015. He is an experienced banker, who before joining Ecobank, had a long and successful career with Citigroup, where he was CEO of Citigroup’s sub-Saharan Africa division based in Johannesburg.    Ade is an accounting graduate of the University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree with First Class Honours. He also studied at the University of London and is an alumnus of the Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Programme. A Chartered Accountant, he is also a trained UNIX Administrator and Network Operating Systems Manager. His many interests include business strategy, economics, process engineering and technology.  ETI Board Committees: In attendance in the Finance and Regulatory Requirements Committee, Social, Reputation and Ethics Committee and Risk Committee.

Mr. Greg DAVIS Greg oversees and ensures strategic management of all financial and fiscal aspects of the Bank’s finance operations. Greg joined Ecobank from Standard Bank Africa, where he was the Chief Financial Officer for all Standard bank operations on the continent, outside South Africa. He was responsible for strategy and execution of the finance function, with 400 staff members across 19 African countries. Before that, Greg was Finance Director, Corporate Banking Africa, at Barclays Bank. Greg has also worked with the Barclays Western Europe Retail Bank, Barclays Global Retail and Commercial Banking, and prior to this with PricewaterhouseCoopers. Greg holds a bachelor degree in Economic and Social History from the University of Leicester, United Kingdom. He is a Qualified Chartered Accountant and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW).

Mr. Emmanuel IKAZOBOH Emmanuel has more than 30 years’ experience in senior management roles, executing high profile advisory assignments for public and private sector clients in Nigeria, Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon and South Africa. He spent most of his career with Deloitte and Touche, holding the position of Chairman and CEO of Deloitte West and Central Africa between 2007 and 2009.      From 2010 to 2011, he served as Interim Administrator of the Nigerian Stock Exchange. He was appointed by Nigeria’s Securities & Exchange Commission to restructure the stock exchange, equities market, stockbrokerage and corporate governance processes to meet with best practice and put in place a new management team. As Chairman of Nigeria’s Central Securities Clearing System, Emmanuel led its restructuring and transformation to conform to global standards.  He is currently the only African board representative of the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) in Can...