New Zenith Bank CEO Adaora Umeoji visits Dangote in Lagos

Zenith Bank MD Adaora Umeoji

Group managing director/chief executive officer of Zenith Bank Plc Adaora Umeoji has met with businessman Aliko Dangote during a courtesy visit to Dangote Industries Limited in Lagos.

Among those who joined Umeoji on the visit were the immediate past GMD/CEO of Zenith Bank Plc, Ebenezer Onyeagwu; executive director, Zenith Bank Plc, Lawani Adamu, and other senior management staff of the bank.

They were joined in the meeting by the group managing director, Dangote Industries Limited, Olakunle Alake; the group executive director of commercial operations, Dangote Industries Limited, Fatima Dangote.

Umeoji assumed office as the first female group managing director and CEO of Zenith Bank Plc on June 1 after the expiration of Onyeagwu’s tenure.

Before she was appointed GMD/CEO, Umeoji was deputy managing director of the bank since October 28, 2016 and has close to 30 years of cognate banking experience of which 26 have been with Zenith Bank.

Umeoji is an alumnus of the prestigious Harvard Business School where she attended the Advanced Management Program (AMP) and an alumnus of Columbia Business School with a Certificate in the Global Banking Program.