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Daniel Wilson Addo
Born
Daniel Wilson Kodwo Addo

Manchester Business School
Occupations
  • Businessman
  • banker
Titlemanaging director of CBG


Daniel Wilson Kodwo Addo is a Ghanaian banker who is managing director of CBG.[1][2] He was appointed to this position in August 2018 after formation of the bank in a merger of five distressed banks in Ghana by the Bank of Ghana in the 2018 Ghana banking sector clean-up.[3] He was formerly an Executive Director of First Atlantic Bank.

Early life

Daniel Addo was educated at

Institute of Professional Studies in Accra where he graduated in accounting in 1990. The following year he joined the offices of KPMG in Ghana and trained as an accountant. Addo obtained membership of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ghana and received an MBA in Finance from Manchester Business School after studies there between 2000 and 2002.[4][5]

Career

Addo was employed at

Standard Chartered Bank Ghana
from 2003 to 2004 when he switched to work for UBA Ghana.

He was made the divisional head for corporate and energy banking on joining UBA Ghana in October 2004. In January 2009, he was promoted to the position of executive director, Wholesale and Retail Banking.[6] In February 2011, he was appointed as deputy managing director of UBA Ghana,[7] and a year later in the same month, moved to UBA Tanzania as managing director.[8]

In July 2013, Addo returned to Ghana as an executive director of First Atlantic Bank then under the management of former UBA Plc C.E.O. Gabriel Edgal.[9] Addo's last role within UBA before exiting the banking group was as managing director of UBA Tanzania from February 2012 to June 2013. At First Atlantic, Addo was in charge of business development. Addo helped the bank expand by opening up new branches within Ghana. In 2016, Addo joined Gabriel Edgal as a partner at Oakwood Green Capital when Edgal ended his role at First Atlantic.[9]

In August 2018, Addo was announced to become the managing director of CBG.[10] This made him chief executive of Ghana's second largest commercial bank by branch networks. He is the bank's first managing director.[11]

Boards

Addo is a non-executive director of real-estate company, Mobus Property, which has

Sam Jonah as executive chairman.[12]
He also sits on the board of insurance group, Hollard Ghana Holdings and its subsidiary Hollard Insurance.

References

  1. ^ "CBG MD named industry's most respected CEO". thebftonline.com. 14 December 2020. Retrieved 14 May 2023.
  2. ^ "CBG MD Wins CIMG Marketing Man Of Year". dailyguidenetwork.com. 8 November 2022. Retrieved 14 May 2023.
  3. ^ "BoG creates Consolidated Bank to take over 5 struggling banks". myjoyonline.com. 1 August 2018. Retrieved 14 May 2023.
  4. ^ "Daniel Wilson Addo Director". cbg.com.gh. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
  5. ^ "Daniel Addo". gab.com.gh. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
  6. ^ "UBA to recapitalise before December 2009". myjoyonline.com. 26 August 2009. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
  7. ^ "Abolish Statutory Transfer Limit". modernghana.com. 6 August 2011. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
  8. ^ "Daniel Addo Heads UBA Tanzania". allafrica.com. 16 April 2012. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
  9. ^ a b "Team - Oakwood Green Capital". oakwoodgreencapital.com. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
  10. ^ "Who is Daniel Addo?". myjoyonline.com. 3 August 2018. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
  11. ^ "We have money to serve you – Consolidated Bank CEO". starrfm.com. 3 August 2018. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
  12. ^ "Leadership". mobusproperty.com.gh. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
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