 |
The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for biographies. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted.
Find sources: "Daniel Wilson Addo" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (May 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
Daniel Wilson Addo
| |
|---|---|
| Born | Daniel Wilson Kodwo Addo |
| Education | Accra Academy |
| Alma mater |
|
| Occupations |
|
| Title | managing director of CBG |
Daniel Wilson Kodwo Addo is a Ghanaian banker who is managing director of CBG.[1][2] He was appointed to this position in August 2018 after formation of the bank in a merger of five distressed banks in Ghana by the Bank of Ghana in the 2018 Ghana banking sector clean-up.[3] He was formerly an Executive Director of First Atlantic Bank.
Daniel Addo was educated at Accra Academy and the Institute of Professional Studies in Accra where he graduated in accounting in 1990. The following year he joined the offices of KPMG in Ghana and trained as an accountant. Addo obtained membership of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ghana and received an MBA in Finance from Manchester Business School after studies there between 2000 and 2002.[4][5]
Addo was employed at Standard Chartered Bank Ghana from 2003 to 2004 when he switched to work for UBA Ghana.
He was made the divisional head for corporate and energy banking on joining UBA Ghana in October 2004. In January 2009, he was promoted to the position of executive director, Wholesale and Retail Banking.[6] In February 2011, he was appointed as deputy managing director of UBA Ghana,[7] and a year later in the same month, moved to UBA Tanzania as managing director.[8]
In July 2013, Addo returned to Ghana as an executive director of First Atlantic Bank then under the management of former UBA Plc C.E.O. Gabriel Edgal.[9] Addo's last role within UBA before exiting the banking group was as managing director of UBA Tanzania from February 2012 to June 2013. At First Atlantic, Addo was in charge of business development. Addo helped the bank expand by opening up new branches within Ghana. In 2016, Addo joined Gabriel Edgal as a partner at Oakwood Green Capital when Edgal ended his role at First Atlantic.[9]
In August 2018, Addo was announced to become the managing director of CBG.[10] This made him chief executive of Ghana's second largest commercial bank by branch networks. He is the bank's first managing director.[11]
Addo is a non-executive director of real-estate company, Mobus Property, which has Sam Jonah as executive chairman.[12] He also sits on the board of insurance group, Hollard Ghana Holdings and its subsidiary Hollard Insurance.
  | This Ghanaian biographical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
