Standard Chartered Bank has announced Ebenezer Twum Asante as its new Board Chairman.
According to a circular from the Ghana Stock Exchange, his appointment takes effect from March 1, 2023.
Mr. Asante, a former Chief Executive Officer of MTN Ghana, was appointed to the Board of Standard Chartered Bank Ghana PLC in May 2019 as an Independent Non-Executive Director.
He served as a member of the Board’s Risk and Audit Committees and was until recently the Chair of the Board’s Cyber and Information Security Risk Committee.
Ebenezer has significant General Management and Corporate leadership experience across Fast Moving Consumer Goods, Fintech and Mobile Telecommunications sectors.
Career
He is currently MTN Group’s Senior Vice President (SVP) for Markets, with overall executive responsibilities of the three regions of MTN Group; West and Central Africa (WECA), Southern and East Africa (SEA) and Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
Prior to assuming that role, he was Vice President respectively for SEAGHA and WECA regions after serving as CEOs of MTN Ghana and Rwanda.
He joined MTN Ghana as a Sales & Distribution Executive after moving from Unilever where he worked for 13 years in various capacities from Graduate trainee all the way to becoming Managing Director of Zambia, Customer Development Director, and member of the Unilever Ghana Board of directors.
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