Aig-Imoukhuede Access Bank's Former CEO, Becomes President of Nigerian Stock exchange

Access Bank's former Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede has been appointed the President of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE). He takes over from the outgoing president and Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote. Before his appointment as President of NSE, Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede was the first Vice President of the National Council of The Nigerian Stock Exchange, a position he has held since May 2013.

From 2002 until his retirement in 2013, he was the Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Access Bank Plc, during his tenure the Bank was transformed to rank amongst Nigeria’s top 5 Banks. His distinguished banking career has spanned 25 years of which 10 were spent at GTB (Guaranty Trust Bank Plc) where he resigned as Executive Director in March 2002.

Imoukhuede is the Board Chairman of FMDQ OTC and the Chairman of Wapic Insurance Plc. He is a member of the National Economic Management Team and a foundation Board member of the Africa Finance Corporation. As the Chairman of Friends Africa, a partner organization of the Global Fund to fight HIV, Malaria and Tuberculosis, he led the Gift from Africa campaign which has raised millions of Dollars for the Global Fund. He is Co-Chairman of the Board of GBC Health and is a founding member of the Private Sector Health Alliance of Nigeria. He is an alumnus of Harvard Business School having attended its Executive Management Programme and also an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria. Mr. Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede holds an LLB degree from the University of Benin and is qualified to practice as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.