Zenith Financial institution Plc has introduced the appointment of Dame (Dr.) Adaora Umeoji, OON, as Group Managing Director/Chief Govt with impact from June 1, 2024, topic to approval by the Central Financial institution of Nigeria (CBN).
She takes over from Dr. Ebenezer Onyeagwu, whose five-year time period expires on Might 31, 2024, after a really profitable tenure. Dame (Dr.) Adaora Umeoji is the primary feminine GMD/CEO because the inception of the financial institution, and her appointment is in keeping with the financial institution’s govt 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 of cognate banking expertise of which twenty-six (26) years have been with Zenith Financial institution.
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Adaora Umeoji
Adaora Umeoji
She is an alumnus of the distinguished Harvard Enterprise Faculty the place she attended the Superior Administration Program (AMP) and an alumnus of Columbia Enterprise Faculty with a Certificates within the International 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 Legislation 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 Faculty of Administration, USA, and has attended varied administration programmes in famend Universities world wide together with the strategic considering and Administration programme at Wharton Enterprise Faculty, USA. She additionally attended the manager program in Strategic Administration and has a Certificates in Main International Enterprise all from Harvard Enterprise Faculty, USA.
Umeoji 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 by way of her philanthropic and humanitarian actions by way of 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 Lady-Baby. Her contribution to humanity was acknowledged by the Solar Newspaper which not too long ago bestowed on her the Humanitarian Service Icon Award for 2023.
Because of her ardour for selling professionalism within the banking business and bettering 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.
