Leadership
UBA UK boasts of a strong governance structure, an experienced Board of Directors and a highly professional executive management team.
Board of Directors & Executive Management
UBA UK is governed by a strong independent board, consisting of a balanced composition of independent non-executive directors and non-executive directors.
The Executive Management team of UBA UK is made up of industry-recognised professionals, with diverse skills and experience.

Chiugo Ndubisi

Mr Ndubisi holds a first-class honors degree in Engineering from the University of Nigeria Nsukka, and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Lagos. A fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN) and Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN), his career spans over 20 years in the Banking industry.
Prior to UBA, Mr Ndubisi was an Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer of Diamond Bank Plc, a position he held until the merger of Diamond Bank and Access Bank in April 2019. In the course of his career, he has served as a member of the Board of Trustees, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Banking Industry Resolution Trust fund, as well as a member of the Audit Committee of the Nigeria Interbank Settlement Systems (NIBSS).
Mr Ndubisi has been involved in several transformational projects and has in-depth knowledge and experience in Financial Control, Mergers and Acquisition, Investor Relations, Cost Management, and Business Transformation.
He has attended various international and local courses including the Advanced Management Program (AMP) of the Wharton Business School (University of Pennsylvania), Driving Strategic Impact Program of the Columbia Business School and the HSBC International Bankers’ course in London. He is also an alumnus of the Lagos Business School (Pan-African University) Senior Management Program (SMP).

Ian Greenstreet

Mr Greenstreet has served on public and private corporate boards for the past 14 years including on several financial institutions. His roles have included being a representative of the FMO (the Dutch Development Bank) on the board of Bank of Africa and Alios Capital, serving as a Director for Diamond Bank in Nigeria, and serving as a representative of the IFC on the board of Assupol Life insurance in South Africa. Mr Greenstreet brings diverse management and board experience in banking, finance, risk, managerial and financial technology together with a global network.
He currently sits on the advisory committee of the London Stock Exchange, on the board of Net1 UEPS a Fintech company in South Africa and is the Chair and Founder of Infinity Capital Partners Ltd in the UK. He previously served as regional Head of Risk for ABN AMRO Bank and a board member and Head of Henderson Fund Management in Luxembourg.
Mr Greenstreet has attended a program at Harvard Business School on driving Digital and Social Strategy and is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (FCA).

Alexander Trotter

Mr Trotter has significant experience in managing, investing and advising African public and private companies. He was a portfolio manager for over ten years investing in frontier African equities, with a demonstrable track record of strong performance. He is a trustee of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, Africa’s leading supporter of entrepreneurship. He has a background in investment management, strategy, and corporate finance, and has held positions with UBS and GAM. He began his career at Linklaters, as a corporate lawyer.
Mr Trotter holds degrees from Oxford University and Imperial College.

Uche Ike

Mr. Ike is the Group Chief Risk Officer at UBA Plc. He is a Chartered Accountant, with an MBA from the University of Benin. He has been with the Group since 2006 and has served in a number of prominent roles, first as Group Head of Operations in South and South East Banks and then for a period of five years, as General Manager at the Bank’s New York branch.
Mr. Ike has over 27 years of banking experience.

Patrick Gutmann

Patrick joined UBA UK in January 2019 and he is an experienced executive with a diverse background in managing cross-cultural teams across a variety of businesses and functions. He has extensive experience in Corporate, Retail and Transaction banking in and across multiple regions and countries.
Prior to joining UBA UK, 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. Before working with 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.
Before his time at 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 Samuel Oni

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 an MBA (Finance) from the University of Ilorin, Nigeria.

Kennedy Uzoka

Mr. Uzoka is currently the Group Managing Director/CEO of UBA Plc and he is responsible for leading the development and execution of UBA Group’s long-term strategy. He holds a BSc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Benin and an MBA from the University of Lagos and has over two decades of experience covering Core Banking, Corporate Marketing Communications, Strategy, and Business Advisory Services. Prior to his current role, he was Group Deputy Managing Director and CEO, UBA Africa, managing the Group’s country subsidiaries across 18 countries in Africa, as well as supervising three key strategic support areas in Digital Banking, Information Technology, and Personal Banking. As Deputy Managing Director, he was the Executive in charge of the Group’s businesses in New York and London.
He is an alumnus of Harvard Business School (AMP) in Boston USA, the International Institute of Management Development (IMS) in Lausanne, Switzerland and the London Business School, United Kingdom.

Alex Romer-Lee

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.

John Coulter

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, and was Regional Head and CEO for Sub-Saharan Africa, as well as holding directorships and senior positions in a number of their African entities. He has also held senior positions with Brait SA as Group CEO, Ndola Capital and Morgan Stanley as CEO Sub-Saharan Africa.
He is an alumnus of Trinity College and University College Dublin. He is an Irish citizen.

Daniel Marx

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.

Gillian Heggs

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 spent 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 Christiansen

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 Clark

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 Gutmann

Patrick joined UBA UK in January 2019 and he is an experienced executive with a diverse background in managing cross-cultural teams across a variety of businesses and functions. He has extensive experience in Corporate, Retail and Transaction banking in and across multiple regions and countries.
Prior to joining UBA UK, 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. Before working with 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.
Before his time at 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

Daniel Marx

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.

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