Patrick is an experienced executive with diverse background and solid experience in managing cross-cultural teams across a variety of businesses and functions. He has extensive international experience having lived and worked in Europe, North America, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.  Patrick is a strategic executive with a breadth and depth of experience in Corporate, Retail and Transaction banking in and across multiple regions and countries.

Patrick is currently the Chief Executive Officer for UBA UK, based in London.  Prior to joining UBA, Patrick was

the Managing Director responsible for all front-office business activities within BACB, a London-based pan-African bank.  In this role, he was responsible for Treasury, six product areas, and four regional coverage areas with five representative offices.  Prior to BACB, Patrick spent nearly five years with Ecobank as the Managing Director and Group Head of the Transaction Banking business, which included Trade Finance, Cash Management & Payments, Supply-Chain Financing, and Corporate Electronic Channels & Platforms.  In this role, he managed a multi-regional team of 200 people across 34 countries.  Prior to Ecobank, Patrick was with Commercial International Bank (CIB) in Egypt, the largest and most profitable private sector bank in the Egyptian market.  At CIB he held the position of Group Head of Global Transaction Services (GTS) and the Head of Strategy for the Institutional Banking business.  In this role, Patrick had executive oversight and responsibility for the bank’s Trade Finance, Cash Management & Payments, and Custody businesses, as well as the underlying technology solutions and platform used to deliver these products and services to the clients of the bank.

Prior to CIB, Patrick spent over 10 years in a variety of positions with ABN AMRO in the US, Amsterdam and Hong Kong.  Positions included Regional Head of Strategy, Marketing & Business Management for ABN AMRO’s Commercial and Retail Banking business across Asia; Ad Interim Regional Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for ABN AMRO’s Commercial & Retail Banking business across Asia; Regional Head of Strategic Decision Support (SDS) for ABN AMRO Asia; Americas Business Head of Cash & Payments Products for ABN AMRO’s Global Transaction Banking; and Head of Global Transaction Banking Strategy for ABN AMRO Americas.

Patrick holds an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management in Chicago, Illinois, and a Bachelor’s degree in International Studies from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota

High Chief Oni was appointed to the Board of UBA UK and became Chairman in August 2015. He was appointed to the Board of UBA Plc as an Independent Non-Executive Director in January 2015 following the mandatory three years cooling period after retiring as a Director from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in June 2011. Prior to this he performed different roles in the Banking Supervision Department between 1993 and 2011. He was appointed the Director of Bank Examination in 2004. In 2009 he became the Director of Banking Supervision and performed a leading role in the joint CBN / Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) special audits of Nigerian banks during the financial crisis in 2009/2010. He was the Chairman of the Committee set up by the CBN to supervise the establishment at the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON). He was appointed by the CBN as Non-Executive Director to represent its interests on the Board of Bank of Industry and the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC). He is a Chartered Accountant and a Fellow of both the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, London and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria. He holds a MBA (Finance) from the University of Ilorin, Nigeria.

Mrs Okwechime was appointed to the Board of UBA UK in July 2014. She is a Non Executive Director of UBA Plc and is currently the Managing Director of Abbey Building Society Plc. She holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration specialising in Banking and Finance, is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria and a Fellow of the Institute of Bankers (London). She is an alumna of the International Institute of Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland and Harvard Business School in Boston, USA. She is a recipient of many awards including the Woman of Excellence Award.

Mr. Osadolor is the Deputy Managing Director of UBA Plc and the Chairman of UBA Pensions

Custodians Limited. He has a degree in Accounting from the University of Benin. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, an alumnus of Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program and an honorary life member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria. Until his appointment as Deputy Managing Director of UBA Plc he served as Group Director, Financial Services at Heirs Holdings Limited. Previously he held senior positions at Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ElI) including Chief Operating Officer for the Corporate and Investment Banking Division and Chief Strategist for the Group based in Johannesburg and subsequently in Lome, Togo.

Before joining ElI Mr. Osadolor held various leadership positions at UBA Plc, including Group CFO, Executive Director – Risk and Compliance, Deputy Group CEO, and CEO of UBA Capital Group

Mr Carpenter was appointed to the Board of UBA UK in May 2014. He has over 40 years’ experience in business and finance, much of which has been gained in the highly challenging environments of developing countries including top level banking appointments in Kenya (Central Bank of Kenya) and Nigeria (Diamond Bank). He spent 5 years with the private sector arm of the World Bank (IFC), heading the AMSCO project spanning the African Continent.

He is a Central Council member of the Royal Overseas League and Deputy Chairman / Nigeria Consultant of the Business Council for Africa. He is a consultant to the global risk and strategic consulting firm, Control Risks.

Mr Carpenter is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers, London (FCIB) and a Chartered Director, the definitive qualification in corporate governance from the Institute of Directors UK, of which he is also a Fellow.

Mr Romer-Lee was appointed to the Board of UBA UK in August, 2015. He is a Non-Executive Director of BCS Prime Brokerage Ltd, a leading financial services group providing trading solutions for emerging markets. Previously he was Senior Non-Executive Director (and Chair/Member of key board committees) of FCE Bank Plc (Ford Credit), and a Non-Executive Director of Sonali Bank UK Ltd.

Mr Romer-Lee is a Chartered Accountant (ACA 1980, FCA 1990) and was previously a Partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers (previously Coopers & Lybrand and Deloitte Haskins & Sells); where he was in the Banking Division, and Financial Services Leader for Central and Eastern Europe.

He holds a Diplome Universitaire de Technologie, Gestion et Administration des Entreprises, Dijon

Mr Coulter was appointed to the Board of UBA UK in August 2017. He is an experienced banker having spent most of his career with JP Morgan holding senior positions in a number of their African entities. He has also held senior positions with Broil SA, Ndola Capital and Morgan Stanley as CEO Sub Sahara Africa.

He is an alumnus of Trinity College and University College Dublin. He is an Irish citizen.

Adeleke joined UBA (UK) Limited in June 2018. Over 20 years’ experience in financial services – credit, financial analysis and control, assets trading, treasury and balance sheet management, with exposure to consulting, training, auditing and enterprise risk management.

He is a chartered accountant with an honours degree in Accounting and an MBA (Finance).

Funmi joined UBA UK in February 2019. She is a dual-qualified solicitor with over 10 years’ experience in private practice, in the UK and in Nigeria.

She has broad corporate, commercial and finance experience across various industry sectors.

Funmi holds an LLM in International Corporate Governance & Financial Regulation from the University of Warwick and an LLB, Law from the University of Lagos, Nigeria.

Gillian joined the Bank in late 2018 as the Head of Human Resources and has over 20 years HR experience. Most recently she was a member of the senior team at Diamond Bank (UK) and prior to that spend 7 years at C. Hoare & Co.

Gillian is a graduate from Strathclyde University and is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

At weekend she enjoys family time and walking the dog.  She also loves travelling, music and theatre.

Fiona is an Associate member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and has worked in financial control and international banking for over 30 years. She has held senior finance roles in small and medium sized banks with a focus on emerging markets and has previously held SMF 2 and SMF 3 authorisations as CFO and Director

Alan has 18 years in financial services with a background in governance, control and internal audit. More recently has held two Head of Internal Audit positions for small foreign banks. Prior to moving to the banking sector he managed IT security and law enforcement activities for a central government department.

Alan holds a PG Dip in Internal Audit and Management and is currently the Chief Operating Officer for UBA UK.

Patrick is an experienced executive with diverse background and solid experience in managing cross-cultural teams across a variety of businesses and functions. He has extensive international experience having lived and worked in Europe, North America, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.  Patrick is a strategic executive with a breadth and depth of experience in Corporate, Retail and Transaction banking in and across multiple regions and countries.

Patrick is currently the Chief Executive Officer for UBA UK, based in London.  Prior to joining UBA, Patrick was

the Managing Director responsible for all front-office business activities within BACB, a London-based pan-African bank.  In this role, he was responsible for Treasury, six product areas, and four regional coverage areas with five representative offices.  Prior to BACB, Patrick spent nearly five years with Ecobank as the Managing Director and Group Head of the Transaction Banking business, which included Trade Finance, Cash Management & Payments, Supply-Chain Financing, and Corporate Electronic Channels & Platforms.  In this role, he managed a multi-regional team of 200 people across 34 countries.  Prior to Ecobank, Patrick was with Commercial International Bank (CIB) in Egypt, the largest and most profitable private sector bank in the Egyptian market.  At CIB he held the position of Group Head of Global Transaction Services (GTS) and the Head of Strategy for the Institutional Banking business.  In this role, Patrick had executive oversight and responsibility for the bank’s Trade Finance, Cash Management & Payments, and Custody businesses, as well as the underlying technology solutions and platform used to deliver these products and services to the clients of the bank.

Prior to CIB, Patrick spent over 10 years in a variety of positions with ABN AMRO in the US, Amsterdam and Hong Kong.  Positions included Regional Head of Strategy, Marketing & Business Management for ABN AMRO’s Commercial and Retail Banking business across Asia; Ad Interim Regional Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for ABN AMRO’s Commercial & Retail Banking business across Asia; Regional Head of Strategic Decision Support (SDS) for ABN AMRO Asia; Americas Business Head of Cash & Payments Products for ABN AMRO’s Global Transaction Banking; and Head of Global Transaction Banking Strategy for ABN AMRO Americas.

Patrick holds an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management in Chicago, Illinois, and a Bachelor’s degree in International Studies from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota

Adeleke joined UBA (UK) Limited in June 2018. Over 20 years’ experience in financial services – credit, financial analysis and control, assets trading, treasury and balance sheet management, with exposure to consulting, training, auditing and enterprise risk management.

He is a chartered accountant with an honours degree in Accounting and an MBA (Finance).

Daniel joined UBA UK in October 2016. He has 29 years of banking experience with extensive exposure to emerging markets. He is an experienced banker who has held various senior positions in smaller foreign owned banks in the United Kingdom.

Daniel holds an honours degree in economics.

Paul has over 40 years of banking experience with over 30 years in internal audit and compliance. He has held senior compliance positions at various large and small banks over the past decade.