Zenith Bank Plc has introduced the appointment of Mr. Kennedy Onuwa Okwudili as an Executive Director of the {bank} efficient May 1, 2026. The appointment, which is in step with the {bank}’s custom and succession technique of grooming leaders from inside, will additional strengthen the {bank}’s Executive Management.
Mr. Okwudili graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Accounting in 1998 from the University of Maiduguri, Nigeria, with a Second Class Upper division. He obtained a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria in 2008 and a Masters of Science in Accounting from Veritas University, Abuja, Nigeria in 2021.
Mr. Okwudili has over twenty-five years of cognate banking expertise spanning credit score and advertising, treasury, compliance in addition to operations and had at totally different instances labored in varied zones and departments of the {bank}.
He is 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 Associate of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN), 2016.
He has attended a number of Executive Education Programmes each inside and out of doors the nation, together with: Senior Leadership Development Programme on the Lagos Business School, Corporate Directorship Programme on the Harvard Business School and Oxford Advanced Management and Leadership Programme on the University of Oxford, SAID Business School.
He is presently the President of Catholic Bankers Association of Nigeria (CBAN) and a member of the Noble Order of the Knights of St. John International (KSJI).
