Experience

Bank of Africa - Uganda

• Banking
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Executive Director

  • Mar 2016 - Present

  Bernard Robinson MAGULU currently holds the portfolio of Executive Director at Bank of Africa - UGANDA. He is a hands-on banker, a resilient negotiator with sound judgment and a discernable practitioner of corporate governance with strong allegiance to business regeneration. Bernard is an astute and consummate banker and a seasoned Chartered Accountant with experience in East and West Africa and diverse European markets. Bernard’s foray into spans over 20 years’ experience Financial and Sector management and Execution. Bernard’s has directly and indirectly been part of companies like; Bank of Uganda; Centenary Bank, United Bank for Africa (UBA). He is part of his European resource expert; he shares experience of top notch players like; British Airways Group’s in London; British Home Stores (BHS); BMW in London and Southampton. He is the Vice Chairman of the UK - Ugandan Convention, an Investment Forum and his an accredited member of the European Economic Community (EEC) Business Forum, and Commonwealth Business Council (CBC). Bernard has received meritorious proficiency accolades on account of designing the practical approach to crafting the Cost Reduction Strategies for British Airways Group for its East African operations. Bernard is a CEO Apprentice Club member of CEO summit and Strathmore Business School, Kenya. He has trained at the Wharton Business School and an Open Source Innovation Maven panel of Experts at the University of Pennsylvania, USA and at MIT, Harvard Business School at Boston. He earned a First Class/Distinction Masters of Management and International Business degree from the Southampton Business School, United Kingdom, specializing in International Finance and Corporate Strategy. He is a graduate of Business Administration and Management from Uganda Martyrs University; and holds a Bachelor of Science Degree (In Applied Accounting) from Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom. Show less



Orient Bank Limited

• Executive Director

  • Sep 2013 - Mar 2016

  Bernard is an astute Fellow of Certified Chartered Accountant (FCCA) and consummate Banker with 18 years’ cognitive Banking experience in Finance, Business Planning, Liquidation Management, and Strategy Execution. I have zero tolerance for regulatory and strategic and operational infractions. I crave for the steadiness between Corporate Governance, Risk management and business value creation for shareholders remains a key focus of my career aspiration in the banking sector. In my current role as Executive Director I am required to demonstrate “Four Eyes Principle” a best practice norm in banking for Corporate Governance. I have and continue to contribute to Orient Bank orientation to business development through customer acquisition, retention and business development via cross functional diversity. In 2013, I completed a CEO; fast track coaching program by the CEO summit and Strathmore Business School. I am a Wharton School Open Source Innovation Maven of the University of Pennsylvania, USA I holds a First Class/Distinction Masters of Management and International Business, from the Southampton Business School, (UK), specializing in International Finance and Corporate Strategy; a graduate of Business Administration and Management from Uganda Martyrs University (Second Class Upper). I also holds a Bachelor of Science Degree (In Applied Accounting) from Oxford Brookes University, UK and I am a member of the Institute of Public Accountants of Uganda (ICPAU). Show less