National Bank Appoints New Faces to Management Team

National Bank has announced the appointment of Mr. Peter Kioko, Mr. Duncan Okun, Mr. Andrew Kimani, and Mr. Stephen Gathogo to its management team.

Mr. Kioko joins the Bank as the Chief Finance Officer (CFO) responsible for financial strategic leadership in the bank, providing efficient management of resources and providing support in the development and implementation of the corporate strategy of the Bank. Prior to joining National Bank Peter has 20 years’ experience in various companies within the broader financial management domain of banking, FMCG and manufacturing sectors.

These include Kenya Shell/BP Ltd (Group Financial Controller), Shell international (Global Internal Auditor), CFC Stanbic Bank (Finance Manager- Corporate and Investment Banking), EABL Group (Head of Risk & Audit). Prior to joining the bank he worked at EABL International LTD as Finance Director. He holds a B.Com (Accounting Option) from University of Nairobi and is a Certified Public Accountant currently undertaking an MBA in University of Bradford.

Mr. Okun joins the Bank as a as the Chief Risk Officer responsible for overseeing all matters relating to governance, Risk Compliance and Control frameworks in the bank. Duncan has over 10 years’ experience in senior management roles. Prior to joining National Bank, he worked with KCB as the Group Head of Operations Risk which provides support to subsidiaries in UG, Rwanda, Burundi, TZ and Sudan.

He has previously worked in Standard Chartered Bank in various positions and in KCB under different roles where he designed and rolled out the operational risk frameworks. He holds an MBA (finance) from University of Nairobi, post graduate diploma in Financial Management from KSMS and a B.A in Economics and Management from Moi University. He is an associate of the KIB and KSMS, Certified Securities and Investment analysts and has a Risk Certification Level 1 and 2.

Mr. Kimani joins National Bank as Director, Information and Communications Technology (ICT) responsible for developing and managing ICT strategies that are aligned to the corporate strategy of the Bank. He holds an MBA from Kenyatta University and a B.sc from Kenyatta University. Andrew has 24 years’ experience.

He has previously worked with KCB in various positions and rose through ranks to become the Head of I.T Banking Systems Operations for KCB Group. He has experience in IT security, IT risks, IT systems and IT project management among other IT competences. He also holds professional qualifications in ITIL (Foundation) and CoBIT5.

Mr. Gathogo joined the Bank in November 2016 as the Director Credit responsible for management of the Banks credit function and providing leadership and guidance in all matters relating to credit management, credit approvals, monitoring and controlling the credit portfolio, as well as debt recovery. Stephen has 22 years vast working experience in the field of Credit Management. Prior to joining the bank, he worked as a Senior Manager Credit in KCB.

Previously he has worked in Barclays Bank in various positions and in KCB Uganda as Head of Corporate Banking and Head of Credit where he set up the credit functions (for UG), centralized credit admin and securitization process. He holds an MBA (Finance) from University of Leicester- UK and bachelors of Commerce from University of Nairobi. He also holds professional qualifications in ACIB- London and CPA-Kenya.

Making the announcement, Nation Bank Managing Director Wilfred Musau said, “We are very pleased to welcome Peter, Duncan, Andrew and Stephen to our team as their appointments is very important in supporting the implementation of our transformation strategy. They all have strong track records in their respective fields and will bring formidable experience and expertise as we move this bank forward.”

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