John Aboh, a frontline banker and turn-around management expert, was appointed Managing Director/CEO of Oceanic Bank International Plc by the Central Bank of Nigeria on 14th August 2009.

Prior to this appointment, he had over 28 years built a legacy of professionalism and integrity that have brought him global acclaim in the financial services sector. He served as Executive Director, in charge of Banking Operations & Services with First Bank of Nigeria Plc up till 31st December 2008 when he retired from the Board of First Bank of Nigeria Plc after eight years of distinguished and meritorious services on the Board.

An astute banker with over 27 years of work experience, Aboh remains a leading light in Nigeria's financial services sector. In 16 out of those 27 years, John worked at senior management and Board of Directors' levels in large Nigerian banks with well defined organizational structures and strong corporate governance practices. At the height of Wema Bank Plc crisis in January 2008, John was drafted to the Bank as the Acting Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer by the Central Bank of Nigeria. He successfully stabilized the Bank and restored customer confidence within a very short period to the delight of Central Bank of Nigeria and other stakeholders of the Bank.
This achievement was attested to by a Letter of Commendation dated 19th September 2008 written to him by the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria.

A strategist with strong quantitative and people management skills, John's background and experience includes development and implementation of new initiatives to upgrade banking operations and customer service quality, proactive formulation of strategies to entrench strong internal audit and controls systems, management of quality risk assets portfolio, large deposit base and formulation of strategies to support superior performance in Banking. John has in-depth knowledge of all facets of finance and Banking.

He has exceptional record of achievements in Banking Operations, International Trade Finance, Corporate Banking, Credits, Financial Management, Information Technology and Projects Implementation. He is widely respected in the industry for his unparalleled commitment to good corporate governance and best practices.

John has participated in various local and international courses, workshops, seminars and programmes, some of which are: Developing Management Skills (Citibank, Nigeria - 1988), Bourse Game - Foreign Exchange and Money Market Course (Citibank, Nigeria - 1989), International Trade Seminar (Citibank, NY USA - 1989), Managing People (Citibank, London, UK - 1990), Structured Trade Finance (Citibank, Athens, Greece - 1991), Managing Productivity (Citibank, Athens, Greece - 1993), International Trade Finance (Euromoney, London, UK - 1988), Advanced Management Programme (Harvard Business School, Boston USA - 2003), Implementing Strategy (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA - 2004) and Making Boards More Effective (Harvard Business School, Boston USA - 2007).

John holds a B.Sc - Finance with second class upper division [University of Nigeria, Nsukka - 1980], MBA - Finance and Accounts [University of Jos - 1985], AMP Harvard University [Boston - 2003]. A key contributor to policy formulation and execution strategies in his various employments, John is an Alumnus of the prestigious Harvard Business School and has exhibited strong leadership, general management and project implementation skills focused on delivering value to key stakeholders.

Mr John Aboh,a committed family man, hails from Agila in Ado Local Government Area of Benue State. His Marriage to Victoria Ocha Aboh(Nee Onazi) is blessed with children.

After obtaining a degree in French from the University of Ibadan in 1979, Oyinkan Adewale trained with Coopers & Lybrand (now part of PriceWaterhouseCoopers) and qualified as a Chartered Accountant, ACA, in May 1984. She has been a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria for over 15 years.

She joined Nigeria International Bank/Citigroup in 1989 as Deputy Financial Controller and rose to the position of Citigroup Chief Financial Officer for the West African Cluster, with responsibility for 7 countries (Cote d´Ivoire, Senegal, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Ghana and Nigeria).

She was appointed to the Board of Directors as an Executive Director in February 1998. She is one of a limited number of MIS experts in Nigeria.

In 2004, Mrs. Adewale co-founded SIAO, Nigeria´s number 1 indigenous accounting firm and no. 5 overall accounting firm in the country. She is credited with originating the SIAO M&A financial due diligence programme that won the firm in its first year, an unprecedented 14 bank due diligence and 2 financial advisory mandates during the (Soludo) bank consolidation programme.

Also at SIAO, she designed and managed the audit of the 8-year accounts of the 57 Local Governments and Local Government Development Areas of Lagos State. Driven by a commitment to professional excellence, she set up SIAO´s training school, thus making the firm one in a very limited number of indigenous firms to invest in human capital development.

From April 2006 to March 2007, Mrs. Adewale was jointly engaged by FBN Plc and ETI, the two banking giants, as Business Combination Manager for the FBN/ETI merger. Mrs. Adewale joined Renaissance Group in April 2007 as Managing Director, Chief Operating Officer for Africa.

She was Executive Secretary to Renaissance´s Africa Advisory Board and a member of its Africa Management Board. She is a member of the Board of Management and Hon Treasurer, St Saviour´s School, Ikoyi, Lagos.

Mrs Adewale was educated at St Mary´s Private School, Lagos, Holy Child College, Lagos, St George´s School in Switzerland and University of Ibadan, Nigeria.

Mohammed Balarabe holds a B.A.(Hons) in Accounting & Finance from Nottingham Trent University (UK) and an M. Sc. Finance from the University of Lagos. He is an associate of the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers. His banking career spans over 20 years.

He started in merchant banking, with Continental Merchant Bank and subsequently New Africa Merchant Bank. He was General Manager / Chief Executive of Newdevco Finance Services Company Limited (the Stockbroking subsidiary of New Africa Merchant Bank) before joining UBA in 1995.

While at UBA, Mohammed held various responsibilities in Corporate, Commercial, Public Sector and Retail Banking. His immediate past assignment at UBA, was as the General Manager / Regional Head, North West Bank; coordinating the bank´s Retail, Commercial, Local Corporates and Public Sector business across the 50 branches of the North West Bank. Prior to that, he was Regional Head for the North East Bank. He has attended several Banking, Finance and Management courses both locally and abroad.

Until his recent appointment, Henry Ajagbawa was the Regional Bank Head, SouthBank UBA Plc. He has worked in various capacities including Transaction Banking, Retail Banking, Corporate Banking, Special Projects, etc and in different geographies in Nigeria; North, West, East, Lagos and South in the UBA Group spanning over eleven years.

Henry had worked in three other Banks before joining UBA including EcoBank where his banking career started. He also had a brief stint at Equitorial Trust Bank as Executive Director, Retail Banking.
Before joining the Banking Industry in 1991, Henry had worked with Unilever International Audit, Lagos and UAC Plc for about 5 years where his professional career started, giving him a cross functional experience in manufacturing, commerce, services, audit and banking. Henry obtained a BSc. and MSc. in Economics from the University of Lagos and he's a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria.

Henry is an alumnus of the Harvard Business School, International Institute of Management Development, IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland and AMP INSEAD. He is married with children and his hobbies are lawn tennis and football.