The Guaranty Trust Holding Company Plc on Tuesday appointed Mrs Miriam Olusanya as the managing director of Guaranty Trust Bank Limited. In this article, we will discuss who Miriam Olusanya, the new GTBank boss is, achievement and others.
She holds a Bachelor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Ibadan (1995) and a Master of Business Administration (Finance and Accounting) from the University of Liverpool (2011).
More so, she joined the GTbank in 1998 and has been in charge of managing the Bank’s Naira and Foreign Currency Balance Sheet, Asset and Liability Position as well as Money Market, Foreign Currency and Bonds Trading. At that time, she was an executive trainee and rose to the position of general manager.
Until her appointment, she was an executive director at the bank, which will be the bank’s first female MD since it was established in 1990.
Mrs Olusanya has over 21 years of banking experience which spans Transaction Services, Treasury, Assets and Liability Management, Corporate Finance and Wholesale Banking.
While commenting on her appointment, Segun Agbaje, the Group CEO of GTCO said: “We believe that a holding company structure will allow us to take advantage of new business opportunities in the emerging competitive landscape and strengthen our earnings base.
“We are very excited to get started on the next phase of our incredible journey to driving Africa’s growth by making end-to-end financial services easily accessible to every African and African business by leveraging technology and strategic partnerships.
“As a bank, we were always looking to meet every customer need; with our corporate reorganisation, we will be able to do more to help our customers thrive in this new world of digital technologies and unprecedented possibilities.”