Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede has been appointed as Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Access Holdings Plc.
The appointment which was announced on Thursday was following the demise of the former Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Herbert Wigwe who was buried at the weekend.
Aig-Imoukhuede had served as the pioneer Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Access Bank, alongside Herbert before it grew into a holding company.
Announcing his appointment, Access Holdings said, “following extensive consultations with key stakeholders, the holdco board decided to invite Mr Aig-Imoukhuede to the helm of governance”.
Aig-Imoukhuede would be replacing Abubakar Jimoh, who had been working in acting capacity since the demise of former Chairman Bababode Osunkoya last November.
Reacting to the appointment, Mr. Aig-Imoukhuede said, “I am thrilled to be back in active service to the Access Group ecosystem. I am confident that working with our directors, our exceptional team of executives and our best-in-class banking and finance professionals, we will deliver outstanding value to our esteemed stakeholders”.
He obtained a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Benin in 1986 and started as a lawyer, working for Continental Merchant Bank two years later.
