Access Holdings Plc has announced the resignation of Mr. Roosevelt Ogbonna, a Non-Executive Director, from its Board after three and a half years of dedicated service.
A statement by the Company Secretary, Sunday Ekwochi, explained Ogbonna will continue in his role as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Access Bank Plc, the Group’s flagship banking subsidiary.
The company explained that his resignation became necessary to ensure compliance with the Central Bank of Nigeria’s Corporate Governance Guidelines for Financial Holding Companies (2023), which limit the number of directors on a financial holding company’s board to nine.
“The board appreciates Mr. Ogbonna for his outstanding and continued contributions to the Access Group,” the statement read.
Ogbonna was appointed Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Access Bank Plc in May 2022, after serving as Deputy Managing Director from 2017 and Executive Director from 2013.
He joined Access Bank in 2002 from Guaranty Trust Bank and has over two decades of experience in the banking sector.
A Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (FCA), an Honorary Member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers (HCIB), and a CFA charter holder, Ogbonna holds an MBA from IMD Business School in Switzerland, an LL.M in International Corporate & Commercial Law from King’s College London, and an Executive MBA from Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business.
He also earned a B.Sc. in Banking and Finance from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and completed the Senior Executive Fellow programme at Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
In 2015, he was recognised by the Institute of International Finance as one of its Future Global Leaders.
Beyond his role as CEO, Ogbonna sits on the boards of Access Bank’s subsidiaries in the UK and South Africa and represents the bank on the boards of the Africa Finance Corporation and CSCS Plc.
