Afrigather Zenith Financial institution Plc has introduced that Dame (Dr.) Adaora Umeoji, OON, will assume the position of Group Managing Director/Chief Government from June 1, 2024, topic to approval by the Central Financial institution of Nigeria (CBN). She’s going to take over from Dr. Ebenezer Onyeagwu, who has had a really profitable five-year tenure as the present Group Managing Director/Chief Government, and whose time period will expire on Could 31, 2024.
Dame (Dr.) Adaora Umeoji is the primary feminine GMD/CEO for the reason that inception of the financial institution, and her appointment is in keeping with the financial institution’s government transition custom, succession plan, and technique of grooming leaders from inside.Previous to this appointment, Dr. Umeoji has been the Deputy Managing Director of the financial institution since October 28, 2016 and has near thirty (30) years cognate banking expertise of which twenty-six (26) years has been with Zenith Financial institution.
She is an alumnus of the distinguished Harvard Enterprise College the place she attended the Superior Administration Program (AMP) and an alumnus of Columbia Enterprise College with a Certificates within the World Banking Program.
She holds a Bachelor’s Diploma in Sociology from the College of Jos, a Bachelor’s Diploma in Accounting and a First-Class honors in Regulation from Baze College, Abuja. She holds a Grasp of Legal guidelines from the College of Salford, United Kingdom, a Grasp in Enterprise Administration (MBA) from the College of Calabar, and in addition has a doctorate in enterprise administration from Apollos College, USA.She holds a Certificates in Economics for Enterprise from the distinguished MIT Sloan College of Administration, USA, and has attended numerous administration programmes in famend Universities around the globe together with the strategic considering and Administration programme at Wharton Enterprise College, USA. She additionally attended the manager program in Strategic Administration, and has a Certificates in Main World Enterprise all from Harvard Enterprise College, USA.
She is a fellow of notable skilled our bodies together with the Chartered Banker Institute, UK, Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria, Nigerian Institute of Administration, Institute of Credit score Administration, Institute of Licensed Public Accountants of Nigeria, Institute of Chartered Mediators and Conciliators, and the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Directors of Nigeria amongst others.
In 2022, the Federal Authorities of Nigeria honoured Dr. Umeoji with Officer of the Order of the Niger, as a recognition of her contributions to nation-building. She is a Peace Advocate of the United Nations (UN-POLAC). She has impacted many lives via her philanthropic and humanitarian actions via her NGOs; Pink Breathe Most cancers Basis and the Cute Basis which educates and caters for Most cancers sufferers and indigent youngsters training particularly the Woman-Little one. Her contribution to humanity was acknowledged by the Solar Newspaper which lately bestowed on her the Humanitarian Service Icon Award for 2023.
On account of her ardour for selling professionalism within the banking business and enhancing the well-being of the much less privileged, Dr. Adaora Umeoji, OON based the Catholic Bankers Affiliation of Nigeria (CBAN), a platform she makes use of to advertise moral banking and repair to humanity. She is a Woman of the Order of Knights of St. John Worldwide (KSJI), and was awarded a Papal Knight of the Order of St. Sylvester by His Holiness Pope Francis.
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