The Junta de Unity Bank PLC has announced the appointment of Mr. Ebenezer Kolawole (FCA) as managing director/interim executive director after the withdrawal of Mrs. Oluwatomi Sometfun, who has completed his mandate as MD/CEO.
The appointment was announced at the 18th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Bank, held in Lagos on Wednesday, after obtaining the necessary approval of its main regulator, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
Kolawole joined Unity Bank PLC as Financial Director (CFO) in 2015. Later, in February 2018, he was appointed Executive Director to supervise finance, operations and information technology, where he played a key role in cost optimization initiatives and strategic transformation of the bank, which improved the performance and viability of the bank market.
An experienced and consummated banker with more than three decades of experience in the industry, Kolawole began his financial services career in Caribbean Finance Limited (a CFL affiliate in the Cayman Islands) in Kaduna in 1992.
Later he joined Ecobank, where he worked in several bank departments, including financial operations and suites, and went up to the attached financial controller. He moved to Standard Trust Bank (STB) and worked in several strategic areas, including operations, regulatory risk management and financial suites, playing a fundamental role in the STB/UBA fusion.
After the merger, he served as Financial Director (CFO) of United Bank for Africa and then moved to Mainstreet Bank as Bank Group Director (GCFO), where he actively led the bank's change and transformation initiatives.
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Kolawole had a brief season in Globacom, one of the main indigenous telecommunications giants of Nigeria, where it served in various capacities for the development of corporate businesses.
In line with the Bank's succession and commercial continuity, Kolawole is loaded with the main responsibility to finish the Bank's ongoing corporate programs and other strategic commercial initiatives of the institution.
Kolawole has a first class title (Hons) in accounting of the University of Obafemi Awolowo (Oau), Ile-Defe. He has participated in several executive management/education programs in Columbia Business School, New York, USA, and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.
Kolawole is a member of several professional organizations, including a member of the Institute of Public Accountants of Nigeria (FCA); a member of the Institute of Credit Administration (FICA); an honorary member of the Chartered Of Bankers Institute of Nigeria (HCIB); an associate member of the Nigerian Management Institute (AMNIM); and a member of the Institute of Directors.
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