Experience

Kush Bank

• South Sudan
• Banking
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Executive Officer

  • Jun 2023 - Present



Horizon Bank South Sudan

• South Sudan
• Banking
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Business & Investments

  • Aug 2022 - Jun 2023



Kinanie Investments

• Kenya

• Director

  • Jun 2021 - Jun 2023



Prime Bank Africa

• Kenya
• Banking
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Head of Corporate Business

  • Nov 2019 - Jun 2021

  Responsible for the strategic direction of the corporate business, encompassing people management, strategic client management, digitalisation, liaison with other areas of the bank to ensure superior customer service and solution development and implementation, and ensuring adherence to all legal, regulatory, compliance, risk and other policy standards. Business Development • Formulating/refining and executing coverage strategy in Corporate Banking including account planning, calling strategy, and customer segmentation. • Originate, maintain and develop relationships in the corporate market. • Growing the loan book, liabilities customer base and income from the Bank’s corporate target markets. • Grow the corporate and investment banking customer base by recruiting new customers, and wallet sizing to the existing customers to attain high returns • Increase market share and share of wallet for the corporate portfolio. • Managing portfolio profitability. Cost management & Operations • Continuous enhancement of the breadth and depth of product lines for the unit to achieve and sustain competitive positioning in the target markets • Enhancement of the corporate banking services through digitalisation of front and back-end processes • Reviewing, analysing and recommending improvements on the corporate credit policies and procedures, leveraging on existing IT enablers and making recommendations for superior client service, improved TAT, and risk and credit management • Involvement in the creation of the data analytics function of the Bank to provide clear customer visibility People Management • Developing, leading and managing the Corporate Bank team. • Setting and monitoring of the team’s performance targets. • Developing strategies to achieve a high performing team. Risk Management • Ensuring compliance and KYC policies are adhered to • Ensure the Bank required standards of documentation are met. Show less



Commercial Bank of Africa (CBA Group)

• Kenya
• Banking
• 1 - 100 Employee

• • Mar 2019 - Oct 2019

  Working closely with McKinsey and Company Consultants, as the Corporate Banking Workstream Lead, I was the day-to-day manager responsible for coordinating, planning, problem solving and implementing requirements to achieve seamless integration and business results. Business integration is a strategy whose goal is to synchronize information technology (IT), business cultures and objectives to align technology with business strategy.• Manage the chaos by serving as the principal day-to-day point of contact for all things related to integration, and establishing the overall integration process design, mechanics and protocols to be followed by all participants and executives.• Accelerate the process by helping the executive staff manage the pace and momentum of the integration, and pushing for timely decisions on key issues and providing true accountability for action items and deadlines.• Architect success by continuously providing focus and direction on what matters most, and searching for and highlighting best practices or potential disconnects that could destroy value or create risk.• Personally, drive the change by being directly and principally involved in the subject matter of major issues so that this role helps manage the dependencies by identifying issues, and then coordinating and communicating resolutions to all involved. Show less

• • Aug 2015 - Oct 2019

  • Growth in business volumes, customer base and income.• Quality of leadership experienced by team and how effectively that translates into conducive work environment and employee satisfaction.• Adequacy of personal and staff competence to effectively perform team's tasks.• Minimization of exposures to and impact of risks associated with Know Your Customer (KYC), Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and portfolio maintenance.• Quality of management of customer expectations.• Effectiveness of team structure and application of established systems (policies, processes, procedures and tools) for optimal efficiency, compliance, resource utilization and cost containment.• Prospecting for and acquiring new customers.• Monitoring and ensuring high quality & consistent service delivery, target response times to credit requests and other service-related requests in line with set quality standards.• Organic growth from existing team portfolio to meet set targets.• Business development through proactive business development to prospects• Identifying and selling trade finance opportunities.• Seeking opportunities to grow ancillary fee income.• Skilful negotiation of pricing.• Seeking ‘cross-selling’ opportunities for other products and services• Maintenance of high team morale and motivation Show less



Stanbic Bank Kenya

• Kenya
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• • Oct 2014 - Jun 2015

• • Apr 2013 - Sep 2014

• • Apr 2009 - Mar 2013

• • Aug 2006 - Apr 2009



Commercial Bank of Africa (CBA Group)

• Kenya
• Banking
• 1 - 100 Employee

• • Apr 2004 - Jul 2006

• • Aug 2001 - Apr 2004

• • Mar 2000 - Aug 2001

• • Dec 1995 - Feb 2000



Commercial Bank of Africa (CBA Group)

• Kenya
• Banking
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Front-Line Customer Service Clerk and Cashier

  • Jul 1994 - Mar 1995