ZENITH BANK APPOINTS KENNEDY OKWUDILI AS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Zenith Bank Plc has introduced the appointment of Mr. Kennedy Onuwa Okwudili as an Government Director of the financial institution efficient Might 1, 2026.  The appointment, which is in step with the financial institution’s custom and succession technique of grooming leaders from inside, will additional strengthen the financial institution’s Government Administration.

Mr. Okwudili graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Accounting in 1998 from the College of Maiduguri, Nigeria, with a Second Class Higher division. He obtained a Masters of Enterprise Administration (MBA) from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria in 2008 and a Masters of Science in Accounting from Veritas College, Abuja, Nigeria in 2021.

Mr. Okwudili has over twenty-five years of cognate banking expertise spanning credit score and advertising and marketing, treasury, compliance in addition to operations and had at completely different instances labored in numerous zones and departments of the financial institution.

He’s a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), 2013, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN), 2024 and an Affiliate of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN), 2016.

He has attended a number of Government Schooling Programmes each inside and outdoors the nation, together with: Senior Management Growth Programme on the Lagos Enterprise School, Company Directorship Programme on the Harvard Enterprise School and Oxford Superior Administration and Management Programme on the College of Oxford, SAID Enterprise School.

He’s at present the President of Catholic Bankers Affiliation of Nigeria (CBAN) and a member of the Noble Order of the Knights of St. John Worldwide (KSJI).