Patience Akyianu
Patience Akyianu | |
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| Occupation | Banker |
[1]Patience Akyianu is a Ghanaian Banker .[2][3] She is currently the Chief Executive Officer, Ghana at Hollard Insurance, and a former managing director of Barclays Bank Ghana ( now Absa Bank Ltd).
Education
[edit]Patience Akyianu completed her Secondary School education at Wesley Girls' Senior High School in Cape Coast, the capital of the Central Region (Ghana).[4] She Later graduated from the University of Ghana Business school with first class honors in Business Administration (accounting option). She also holds an MBA (Finance option) from the same institution.[5]
Career
[edit]Patience Akyianu started her banking journey at Standard chartered bank as a financial controller. She rose to the position of Chief Financial Officer (CFO) in the South African office of the Standard chartered bank Africa regional operations.[6]
Awards and nominations
[edit]Patience Akyianu was awarded the finance CEO of the year at the 3rd Ghana CFO awards in 2017.[7] She was also nominated among the 60 women rising in Africa in 2017.[8] Patience Akyianu was also nominated at the 2018 GECE Awards.[9] Nobles International Award (2013), Africa Female Economic Champion-Banking (Centre for Economic & Leadership Development (CELD)-2014), she was inducted into Global Women Leaders Hall of Fame (CELD- 2014) and Woman of Excellence in Finance (Ghana CFO Awards 2015). Nominee in the Top 50 Rising Stars in Africa (The Africa Report, May 2014) 2021 she was African Female Business Leader of the Year[10]
References
[edit]- ^ Awal, Mohammed (2022-03-31). "Hollard's Patience Akyianu is the Outstanding Woman CEO of the Decade". The Business & Financial Times. Retrieved 2024-01-20.
- ^ "Barclays Bank Ghana appoints new MD".
- ^ "Glitz top 100 inspirational women – Page 100 – Glitz Africa Magazine". Retrieved 2022-05-28.
- ^ "Patience Akyianu | Who's Who in Ghana". whoswhoghana.app. Retrieved 2024-03-17.
- ^ "PATIENCE AKYIANU". Retrieved 7 April 2017.
- ^ Adombila Akalaare, Maxwell. "Defying all odds — The rise and rise of Patience Akyianu". Graphic Online. Graphic Online. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
- ^ : Mohammed, Ali. "Finance Executives honoured at 3rd Ghana CFO Awards". Graphic Online. Graphic Online. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
- ^ Ghana web. "WomanRising announces 2017 top 60 Corporate Women Leaders in Ghana". Ghana web. Ghana web. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
- ^ "Outstanding CEOs nominated for 2018 GECE Awards". Ghana web. Ghana web.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|url=(help) - ^ "African Female Business Leader of the Year". citinewsroom.com. 20 September 2021. Retrieved 18 March 2022.