Kennedy Uzoka is an Havard University Alumnus, who has over 2 decades experience covering core banking, corporate marketing, strategic business advisory services and resources management. Mr. Uzoka has also focused on the consistent expansion of UBA’s activities and services across and beyond the African continent.
He is an alumnus of Harvard Business School (AMP) in Boston USA, the International Institute of Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland and the London Business School, United Kingdom.
In his role as the CEO, UBA, Uzoka pulled increased financial performances and appreciation of shareholders’ investment.
Under his supervision, UBA has polled massive investment through the digitalised platform of the bank. Through his, UBA’s activities and processes, particularly the introduction of UBA’s chatbot, LEO which is the first of its kind by any financial institutions in Africa have been huge successes.
The visionary leadership of Mr. Uzoka has led UBA to earn the digital bank of the year award consistently. The launch of LEO, an artificial intelligence chatbot in January of 2018 has witnessed UBA become the leader in artificial intelligence. Leo is available on different platforms including WhatsApp, Facebook and more recently on IOS, the mobile operating system of Apple Inc.
He holds a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Benin, South-south Nigeria and an MBA from the University of Lagos, South-west Nigeria. Mr Uzoka has over two decades experience covering core banking, corporate marketing communication, strategy and business advisory services.
Without mincing words, United Bank for Africa is a leading financial services group in sub-Saharan Africa with presence in 19 countries, as well as the United Kingdom, the United States of America and France.
Kennedy is responsible for leading the development and execution of UBA Group’s long term strategy.
With over Six years and nine months experience with United Bank of Africa, KU, as we refer to him here is the Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the pan-african bank.
He has been responsible for the overall creation, planning, implementing and integrating the strategic direction of UBA Group with a view to creating shareholder value.
As the DMD/CEO UBA Africa he had responsibility for growing and deepening the Group’s operations in her 18 presence countries across the African continent.
KU was responsible for championing the UBA vision and establishing her as the financial solution provider of choice on the continent. He is responsible for leading the development and execution of UBA Group’s long term strategy.
Prior to his current role, he was CEO UBA Africa managing the Group’s country subsidiaries across 18 countries in Africa as well as supervising 3 key strategic support areas in Digital Banking, Information Technology and Personal Banking.
As Deputy Managing Director, he was the Executive in charge of the Group’s businesses in New York and London.
He is an alumnus of Harvard Business School(AMP) in Boston USA, the International Institute of Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland and the London Business School, United Kingdom.
The Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, has won the much coveted ‘BusinessDay’s Bank CEO’ of the year 2019 award. Uzoka emerged top based on his sterling achievements since he assumed the position of Group CEO at UBA three years ago.
United Bank for Africa, has been focused on putting the customer first in all its activities, adding that this has been the focal point and driving force of the bank in the past three years. Its commitment to customer service excellence is translating to strong, operational and financial efficiency
According to information at our disposal, UBA has a large footprint across the globe operating in 20 African countries: Republique du Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroun, Congo Brazzaville, Congo DRC, Cote d’ivoire, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Tchad, Uganda and Zambia. The Bank also operates in the United Kingdom, the United States of America and with a presence in Paris.
Today, UBA is one of the largest financial services groups on the African continent. The bank provides corporate, commercial, SME, consumer and personal (retail) banking services to more than 18 million customers, served through diverse channels: over 1,000 business offices and customer touch points (2,539 ATMs, 24,168 PoS, robust online banking and mobile banking, social media etc). Additionally, UBA offers pension custody and related services. It has proven expertise and capacity in key sectors of economies across Africa especially in Oil and Gas, Infrastructure Finance, Agric and Commodity/Export.
UBA’s footprint across Africa positions it as a preferred partner for structured solutions to key governments and corporations operating in/into Africa.
