Meet Bolaji Agbede, The Acting Group Chief Executive Officer of Access Holdings Plc
Access Holdings Plc has announced the appointment of Bolaji Agbede as the Acting Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO) of the holding company.
Agbede, who joined Access Bank in 2003 as an Assistant General, is a versatile professional with over 27 years of experience in Human Resources management, customer relationship management, and banking operations.
Agbede has a proven record of successful people integration during mergers and acquisitions, culture transformation and execution of corporate strategies, and she served as the bank’s head of Group Human Resources for 12 years between 2010 and 2022.
In a statement published on the NGX, the chairman of Access Holdings, Abubakar Jimoh said, “the appointment of Agbede is in alignment with our robust succession planning practices. We are strongly convinced that Agbede, being the company’s most senior executive, would provide the much-needed leadership to steer the company towards the attainment of its strategic vision.”
Before this appointment, Agbede spent two years serving as the bank’s most senior founding Executive Director in Business Support. She has spent 21 years at Access Bank, having first joined as the Assistant General Manager, responsible for managing the bank’s portfolio of chemical trading companies.
Agbede completed a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Lagos and a Master of Business Administration from Cranfield University in 2002. She is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Management UK and the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria.
Agbede’s appointment as acting GCEO is subject to regulatory approvals by the Central Bank of Nigeria.
Access Holding (ACCESSCORP) was the highest traded stock on the Nigerian Exchange week.