Ms. Bolaji Agbede has been appointed as the Acting Group CEO of Access Holdings Plc as announced by the company on Monday.
This is coming after the painful death of Herbert Wigwe, the former Group CEO of the company. He, his wife, son and past chairman of the Nigeria Exchange Group, Abimbola Ogunbanjo on Friday, all died in a helicopter crash in the united States.
Further to its announcement dated February 11, 2024, the Board of Directors of Access Holdings Plc (‘the Company’) has today announced the appointment of Ms. Bolaji Agbede as the Acting Group Chief Executive Officer of the Company following the unfortunate demise of its former Group Chief Executive Officer, Dr Herbert Wigwe, on February 9, 2024,”
Access Bank said in a statement
She kick-started her Access Bank journey in 2003 when she joined the company as an Assistant General. She has 2 decades+ of professional experience in banking and in business consultancy.
Before this new appointment she was appointed the company’s founding Executive Director, Business Support in 2022. She also has human resources experience unlocked as she was the Head, Group Human Resources from 2010 to 2022, amongst many roles she has filled in the bank.
Ms Agbede, a member of the Chattered Institute of Management UK and the chattered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria, graduated from the University Of Lagos with BSC in Mathematics and Statistics. She also got her masters in Business Administration from Cranfield University, United Kingdom, a year before she joined the company.
Central Bank of Nigeria is yet to approve her appointment, as we await the Apex Bank approval.
Chairman of the company, Abubakar Jimoh said her appointment is in line with the rich and robust succession planning the company is built on. He said the company is convinced that Ms Agbede, who is the most senior executive is the right person to lead the African company towards the vision of building a globally connected ecosystem.
The appointment of Ms Bolaji Agbede is in alignment with our robust succession planning practices.
We are strongly convinced that Ms Agbede, being the company’s most senior executive, with exceptionally rich, professional and leadership experience and understanding of the Access culture, would provide the much-needed leadership to steer the company towards the attainment of its strategic vision of building a globally connected community and ecosystem, inspired by AAfricafor the world.”
Abubakar Jimoh said
