Roosevelt Ogbonna has been appointed as the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Access Bank, following the appointment of Herbert Wigwe as the Group MD/CEO of Access Holdings Plc.
His appointment takes effect from May 2, 2022. Ogbonna has since 2017 been Access Bank’s Deputy Managing director. Prior to 2017, he was appointed executive director, commercial banking division, in October 2013.
According to a statement from the Bank, the new MD is “a thoroughbred and consummate professional with over two decades of banking experience having joined Access Bank in 2002 from Guaranty Trust Bank.
“Ogbonna has a very rich professional cum academic background. He is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, an honorary member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers, a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s Senior Executive Fellow programme, an alumnus of Harvard Business School and a CFA charter holder,” the statement read.
“He holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from IMD Business School, Switzerland; a Master’s degree (LL.M) in International Corporate & Commercial Law from King’s College, London; an Executive Master’s degree in Business Administration from Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business; and a Bachelor’s degree in Banking and Finance from University of Nigeria, Nsukka.”