Bisi Onasanya
Bisi Onasanya,
the group managing director/Chief Executive Officer of the First Bank of
Nigeria Limited, a subsidiary of FBN Holdings Plc, is set to retire at a
high point of his career after completing his tenure at the end of the
current Financial Year on December 31 2015.
Onasanya is retiring on the heels of an inspiring and
enviable career spanning over three decades of diverse management and
operational experience, 21 years of which he spent with FirstBank,
serving in the last six years as Group Managing Director/CEO.
He has been able to stabilise and modernise the expanding FirstBank
brand since his appointment in 2009, thus reinforcing the confidence of
the bank’s diverse stakeholders and the global financial publics.
Onasanya’s successor according to the
release from the bank would be announced in the last quarter prior to
his exit, in accordance with FirstBank’s corporate governance practice,
which provides for seamless transition for the office of Group Managing
Director.
A seasoned banker and chartered
accountant; Onasanya is a highly respected and personable executive who
has established a reputation at FirstBank for solid performance and
sound judgment.
He is widely reputed as the architect of
the modern FirstBank, associated with various innovative and creative
achievements. He was project coordinator of ‘Century 2’ the new
frontier, FirstBank’s far-reaching enterprise transformation project at
the turn of the century, as well as project coordinator of the FirstBank
Corporate Transformation Project which has seen the bank accentuating
its foothold on modernisation.
Onasanya also superintended the latest
composite Corporate Identity/ and Brand Refresh of the FirstBank Group, a
bold step heralding the international expansion of the FirstBank brand.
A corporate strategist and development
pacesetter, Onasanya has ensured the steady internationalisation of
FirstBank, which under his leadership now boasts of subsidiaries with
operations across Africa, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
His tenure witnessed the transformation
of the bank’s training centre into First Academy, a best in class
corporate university that recently clinched the 2015 Global Council of
Corporate Universities Award for best impact by a corporate university
on the implementation of business strategies. The bank has also received
the highly coveted best place to work award.
An articulate and insightful leader in
the financial services industry, Onasanya has made meaningful
contributions as a member of the Bankers Committee and is the Chairman
of the sub-committee on ethics and professionalism. He has served as a
member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers sub-committee on Fiscal and
Monetary Policies and a member of the Presidential Committee on
reduction of interest rates.
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