The Board of Directors of Access Holdings Plc on Monday announced the appointment of Bolaji Agbede as the Acting Group Chief Executive Officer.
This announcement came following the death of the firm’s former Group Chief Executive Officer, Herbert Wigwe, who died on Friday in a helicopter crash.
Wigwe died alongside his wife Doreen, son Chizi, and a former chairman of the Nigeria Exchange Group, Abimbola Ogunbanjo, in a helicopter crash in California near the Nevada border, United States of America.
Wigwe was appointed Access Holdings GCEO on March 28, 2022.
Prior to her appointment, Agbede was the company’s most senior founding Executive Director in charge of Business Support. Here are 10 things to know about her:
- Agbede holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Lagos in 1990.
- She started her professional career in 1992 at the Guaranty Trust Bank.
- She has served in various capacities within the commercial banking and operations functions, rising to the position of manager in 2001.
- In 2002, she obtained a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Cranfield University, UK.
- In 2003, she became the Chief Executive Officer of JKG Limited, a business consulting outfit.
- Agbede joined Access Bank in 2003 as an Assistant General MAnager.
- She has nearly three decades of professional experience cutting across banking and business consultancy services.
- She is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management UK and the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria.
- Between 2010 and 2022, the acting GCEO was the Bank’s Head, Group Human Resources.
- In 2022, she was appointed the company’s founding Executive Director, Business Support.
