Ade Ayeyemi

Chief Executive Officer

Mr Ayeyemi is a highly experienced banker who has had a long and successful career with Citigroup, where he is currently Chief Executive Officer of Citigroup’s sub-Saharan Africa division, based in Johannesburg. He is an Accounting graduate of the University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree with First Class Honours. He also studied at the University of London and is an alumnus of Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Programme. A Chartered Accountant, Mr Ayeyemi is also a trained UNIX Administrator and Network Operating Systems Manager. His many interests include business strategy, economics, process engineering and technology.

Greg Davis

Executive Director, Group Chief Financial Officer, British

Greg Davis joined Ecobank as Group Chief Financial Officer in October 2016. Greg has nearly two decades of banking and financial services experience and is an accomplished banking CFO. Prior to joining Ecobank, he had a successful career with both Standard Bank and Barclays PLC, most recently holding the role of CFO for Standard Bank’s Africa division, which encompasses 17 countries. He has worked in banking in Africa for over 10 years, building on his successful career in financial services in London before that. Greg is responsible for overseeing and ensuring the strategic management of all the financial and fiscal aspects of the bank’s finance operations. A qualified Chartered Accountant, and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales (ICAEW), Greg holds a Bachelor of Arts Honours degree in Economic and Social History from the University of Leicester, England.

Charles Kie

MD, Ecobank Nigeria

Mr. Kié was successfully selected as Managing Director after a rigorous selection process which included both internal candidates within Ecobank as well as external candidates. Prior to this new appointment, Mr. Charles Kié was the Group Executive, Corporate and Investment Bank for Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI), responsible for leading the Ecobank Group’s Corporate and Investment Banking business across the global network of 40 countries, 36 of which are in Africa. Charles Kié represents ETI on the Board of Directors of EBI.SA, the Ecobank subsidiary in France as well as Ecobank Development Corporation (EDC), the investment banking arm of the Ecobank Group. Mr. Kié joined Ecobank in October 2011 as Chief Operating Officer of the then Ecobank Capital and was subsequently appointed the Head of the Group’s Corporate Banking business. Before joining the Ecobank Group, between 2008-2011, Mr. Charles Kié was Group CEO of Groupe Banque Atlantique, based in Togo and then Côte d’Ivoire. Groupe Banque Atlantique (now majority owned by Banque Centrale Populaire of Morocco) had operations in 8 countries in West Africa and 1 in Central Africa as well as a representative Office in Paris (France). Mr. Kié also had a successful career with Citibank between 1997 and 2008, rising to the position of CEO of Citigroup West Africa between 2004 and 2008. Mr. Charles Kié is a graduate of Ecole Superieure de Commerce d’Abidjan (Cote d’Ivoire), has an MBA from the London School of Economics-New York University Stern-HEC Paris, and an MSc from the University Of Clermont Ferrand (France). He has attended the Harvard Business School- Advanced Management Program. An Ivorian national, Mr Kié is fluent in both English and French. Mr. Charles Kié succeeds Mr. Jibril Aku, whose five year tenure as Managing Director, Ecobank Nigeria ends on December 31st, 2015

Patrick Akinwuntan

Group Executive, Domestic Bank

Abdul Aziz Dia

Group Head, Treasury

Amin Manekia

Group Executive, Corporate and Investment Banking

A national of Pakistan, Amin Manekia’s joins Ecobank with 28 years of international corporate banking experience. It includes an excellent grounding in transaction banking, commercial banking, credit risk, and general management. His career spans various business and regional leadership roles across different parts of the world, notably the United States, Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Mr Manekia was most recently with Citigroup, where he spent 25 years of his career. He joined Citigroup directly from university in the United States in 1988, moving to South Africa earlier this year as Managing Director and Africa Head for Citi Securities & Banking. In this role, he successfully led Citibank’s Institutional Clients business. Before his move to South Africa, Mr Manekia spent two transit years at the Samba Financial Group in Saudi Arabia. There, he was the executive responsible for rebuilding the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s corporate banking portfolio following the financial crisis. Prior to this, he held various positions with Citibank in dfferent businesses and regions. These included his Nairobi-based role as Managing Director & Banking Head for East and Southern Africa, with business management responsibilities for corporate banking for that region. In 2007, he was the Commercial Banking Head across Citibank’s Africa platform. As Citibank Country Head for Bulgaria from 2004 to 2007, Mr Manekia successfully led the execution and development of a transformation strategy, which he achieved by quadrupling the bank’s business revenue base within his three-year tenure. In 1993, he relocated from New York to Pakistan, where he worked on the origination side of the business. During his six-year tenure in Pakistan, he held a series of corporate banking roles in Karachi and Lahore. Mr Manekia’s appointment as Group Executive of Ecobank’s Corporate and Investment Banking business takes effect from 4 July 2016. He will report directly to the Ecobank Group CEO and will be responsible for the following business lines: Corporate Banking Group; Transaction Service Group; Investment Banking Group; Fixed Income, Currencies & Commodities (Treasury); and Securities, Wealth and Asset Management. Amin Manekia holds a degree in Business Administration and Finance from Boston University School of Management.

Laurence do Rego

Group Chief Regulatory and Compliance Officer

Laurence do Rego, whose career spans some 30 years, joined Ecobank in 2002 as Financial Controller for the Group’s Benin subsidiary. She was later appointed Financial Controller for parent company ETI and became the Group’s Chief Financial Officer in 2005. Mrs. do Rego has played a critical role in supporting the growth of the Ecobank Group from twelve countries to the scale and breadth that it enjoys today with a presence in 40 countries. She has been part of the team that led Ecobank's expansion into East and Southern Africa, including its acquisition of Oceanic Bank as part of its Nigeria subsidiary strategy.