Hope Payment Service Bank Ltd, a payment service bank in Nigeria, has appointed Mrs. Ogechi Chinwe Altraide as its new managing director & chief executive officer(CEO).
The appointment is subject to approval of the Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN) though.
Announcing the appointment, the chairman of the bank, Alhaji Shehu Abubakar, stated that, Altraide brings to the board and the bank, over two and a half decades of unbroken experience in Nigeria’s dynamic banking industry, and will provide valuable insight to the bank from her wealth of experience.
He noted that the appointment of Mrs. Altraide is one of the measures geared towards positioning the bank as a leading payment service bank in the country.
Ogechi has over 25 years’ experience in banking and has worked in different banks, such as; Ecobank, Diamond Bank and United Bank for Africa(UBA) where she was a deputy general manager until her current appointment as the managing director/CEO of Hope PSBank.
She has held several roles which include; group head Personal Banking, head, Retail Banking, group head, Direct Sales, Sales head, regional manager and branch manager. She has managed different portfolios, including; Agent Banking, International Remittances, SME, Customer Acquisition and Retail Growth. She was also a non-executive director of UBA, Tanzania.
She holds a B.Sc. in Management and an MBA in Banking and Finance both from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Ogechi is a Certified Management Consultant, a fellow of the Chartered Instit
ute of Bankers of Nigeria and a subject matter expert in retail sales and campaigns.
