Olukorede Adenowo has been appointed Chief Executive Officer, Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria Limited. A founding staff of the bank, he has held various senior positions in the group in the last 24 years. Until his appointment, he was the Executive Director, Corporate, Commercial and Institutional Banking business in Nigeria where he is responsible for driving and implementing the Bank’s business strategy for its corporate clients.
Prior to this, he was the Chief Executive Officer for Standard Chartered Bank, The Gambia, with dual responsibility for managing the Bank’s business interest in Senegal. He was also a Non-Executive Director of the Bank in Sierra Leone and served as a Non-Executive Director on the Board of Standard Chartered Gambia. He has served as Head of Origination and Client Corporates for Standard Chartered, West Africa; Deputy Managing Director of Standard Chartered Bank Cameroon and a senior management executive in the Wholesale Bank in Standard Chartered Nigeria.
Prior to joining the bank, he worked in Societe Generale Bank Nigeria and Deloitte Nigeria, where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1990. An Economist turned Chartered Accountant; he was appointed Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Institute Accountants of Nigeria in 2000. He is an alumnus of INSEAD and Said Business School of Oxford University where he had management training in Leadership and holds an MBA from the Lagos Business School.
Korede is married to popular architect, Jumoke who is fondly referred to as Africa’s ‘Starchitect’. The well sought after speaker and author who runs AD Consulting an architectural firm, has taken to her social media to pour encomiums on her husband for achieving such a remarkable feat.
