FINANCE

Zenith Bank strengthens board with new directors

&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The Board of&NewLine;Directors of Zenith Bank Plc has approved the appointment of Mr&period; Henry Oroh as&NewLine;Executive Director of the bank&period; The appointment is consistent with the bank’s&NewLine;tradition and succession strategy of grooming leaders from within&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Also&comma; the Board has&NewLine;approved the appointment of Dr&period; Al-MujtabaAbubakar&comma; FCA&comma; as an Independent&NewLine;Non-Executive Director&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Both appointments are&NewLine;effective September 1&comma; 2019&comma; and have been approved by the Central Bank of&NewLine;Nigeria&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Henry Oroh holds a Bachelor’s&NewLine;Degree in Accounting from the University of Benin&comma; Edo State and an MBA from&NewLine;the Lagos State University as well as an LLB Degree from the University of&NewLine;Lagos&period; He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria&NewLine;&lpar;ICAN&rpar; and an honorary member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers &lpar;CIBN&rpar;&comma;&NewLine;Nigeria&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">He has over two&NewLine;decades of banking experience&period; He began his banking career in 1992 at Citibank&NewLine;where he served for seven years in Operations&comma; Treasury and Marketing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">He joined Zenith Bank&NewLine;in February 1999 and has worked in various Groups and Departments within the&NewLine;Zenith Group Office&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">His expertise spans Operations&comma;&NewLine;Information Technology&comma; Treasury&comma; Marketing&comma; including the Manufacturing&comma; Food&NewLine;and Beverages&comma; Pharmaceuticals&comma; Oil and Gas&comma; Public Sector&comma; Consumer&comma; as well&NewLine;as Corporate Banking and Business Development&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">In April 2012&comma; he was&NewLine;seconded to Zenith Bank Ghana Limited as an Executive Director and became the&NewLine;Managing Director&sol; Chief Executive in February 2016&comma; where he successfully&NewLine;spearheaded the phenomenal growth of the Zenith Brand both within the Ghana&NewLine;market and the West African sub-region&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Henry has attended&NewLine;several Leadership Programmes and Executive Management Courses at the Harvard&NewLine;Business School&comma; Columbia Business School&comma; New York&comma; University of Chicago&comma;&NewLine;University of Pennsylvania&comma; HEC Paris&comma; JP Morgan Chase&comma; UK and the Lagos&NewLine;Business School&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">He comes to the Board&NewLine;of Zenith Bank Plc with strong competencies in Credit &amp&semi; Marketing&comma;&NewLine;Operations&comma; Information Technology&comma; Treasury and impressive Leadership skills&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Dr&period; Al-Mujtaba Abubakar&NewLine;is currently the Managing Director of Apt Pensions Funds Managers Limited&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">He is a graduate of&NewLine;the Leeds Polytechnic&comma; UK&period; He is a renowned Chartered Accountant and a Fellow&NewLine;of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Dr&period; Abubakar has&NewLine;extensive and tremendous experience in the financial services industry&comma; audit&NewLine;and consulting&period; He worked with the firm of Akintola Williams Deloitte between&NewLine;January 2000 and November 2008&comma; and rose to become the Partner and Board Member&NewLine;of West Africa sub-region&period; Prior to this&comma; he had served on the Board of several&NewLine;financial institutions in Nigeria&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">He has attended&NewLine;several management and leadership training programmes and conferences both&NewLine;within and outside the country&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">He brings to the&NewLine;Board of the bank tremendous track record in Risk Management&comma; Credit &amp&semi;&NewLine;Marketing&comma; Auditing and very outstanding leadership skills&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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