Unity Bank Appoints Ebenezer Kolawole As Acting MD/CEO
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The Board of Unity Bank Plc has announced the appointment of Ebenezer Kolawole (FCA) as the Acting Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer.
His appointment follows the retirement of Oluwatomi Somefun who has completed her tenure as MD/CEO.
The appointment was announced at the Bank’s 18th Annual General Meeting (AGM), held in Lagos on Wednesday, after securing necessary approval from its primary regulator, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
Kolawole is a seasoned and consummate Banker with over three decades of industry experience. He began his financial services career at Caribbean Finance Limited (an affiliate of CFL in Cayman Island) in Kaduna in 1992.
He later joined Ecobank where he worked in various departments of the Bank, both Operations and Finance suites, and rose to the position of Deputy Financial Controller.
Post-merger, he served as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the United Bank for Africa.
He had a brief stint at Globacom, a foremost and Nigeria’s leading Indigenous Telecommunication giant, where he served in various capacities for corporate business development.
Kolawole joined Unity Bank Plc as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) in 2015. He was later, in February 2018, appointed the Executive Director to oversee Finance, Operations, and Information Technology, where he played a key role in the Bank’s strategic transformation and cost optimization initiatives which enhanced the Bank’s performance and market feasibility.
In line with the Bank’s succession and business continuity plans, Mr. Kolawole is saddled with the primary responsibility of finalising the Bank’s ongoing corporate programmes and other strategic business initiatives of the institution.
He is a member of several professional bodies including: Fellow of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (FCA); Fellow, Institute of Credit Administration, (FICA), honourary member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (HCIB), Associate Member of The Nigeria Institute of Management (AMNIM); Member of the Institute of Directors etc.
