Yetunde B. Oni (Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer)
Yetunde B. Oni is a highly accomplished financial services leader with a successful career spanning over 30 years. She has held senior positions in international and local banks, focusing on emerging markets. In January 2024, Yetunde was appointed by CBN as the Managing Director/CEO of Union Bank of Nigeria.
Before this, Yetunde worked at Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria Limited as the pioneer head of commercial clients in September 2014. She became the Managing Director & Country Head of Commercial Banking in West Africa in 2017. During her tenure, she developed and executed comprehensive business growth strategies, managed key relationships, and ensured compliance with group credit policy and local underwriting standards.
Before Joining standard chartered Bank Nigeria Ltd, Yetunde started her career at Prime Merchant Bank in the Treasury & Money Markets Group. This was followed by an 11-year stint at Ecobank Transnational Incorporated as a Relationship Manager, where she demonstrated exceptional proficiency in client solutions. Relationship management, team leadership, and talent development.
Yetunde made history in January 2021 as the first female Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Standard Chartered Bank in Sierra Leone. During her tenure. she provided excellent leadership, strategic direction, and performance management, resulting in a remarkable 50% year-on-year growth in income and a substantial 116% year-on-year growth in profit before tax in 2022.
Yetunde is a University of Ibadan graduate with a Bachelor’s degree (Honours) in Economics. She has attained several international and local professional and leadership certifications, including an MBA from Bangor University. Yetunde is an alumnus of Oxford University, INSEAD Business School, Singapore, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Loans & Risk Management, an Honorary senior Member or the Chartered Institute of Bankers or Nigeria (HCIB), a member of Women in Management and Business (WIMBIZ) and an invested member of esteemed industry affiliations within and outside the Bank.