WHO IS WHO IN CORPORATE NIGERIA: CHARLES KIE, THE QUIET BANKING GURU
WHO’S WHO IN CORPORATE NIGERIA
CHARLES KIE
CURRENT POSITION: Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Ecobank Nigeria Limited
PAST POSITIONS: Head, Group’s Corporate Banking Business, Ecobank Transnational Incorporated | COO, Ecobank Capital | Group CEO, Groupe Banque Atlantique | CEO, Citigroup West Africa | Analyst, Citigroup.
EXPERTISE: Corporate Finance & Banking | Strategy & Management | Leadership.
EDUCATION: BSc. Economics, Ecole Superieure de Commerce d’Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire | MSc. Economics, University of Clermont, Ferrand, France | MBA, TRIUM Program (HEC School of Management, London School of Economics & NYC Stern School of Business). An alumnus of the Advanced Management Program, Harvard Business School.
OTHER POSITIONS HELD CURRENTLY: Non-executive director, Africa Finance Corporation.
JarusHub One Line Description
The non-celebrity bank CEO
JarusHub’s Remarks
While many bank CEOs grace the front pages of newspapers every now and then, Kie is not one whose face adorns newspapers. Quietly working to preposition Ecobank, Kie is an economist by training, not just for first degree but up masters level. He has had all his careers in banking.
He is an Ivorian, like Tidjane Thiam, CEO of Credit Suisse, and arguably the highest placed Black African in global banking world.
