Patience Akyianu
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Patience Akyianu | |
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| Occupation | Banker |
Patience Akyianu is a Ghanaian Banker.[1][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]Akyianu completed her secondary school education at Wesley Girls' Senior High School in Cape Coast, the capital of the Central Region (Ghana).[4] She graduated from the University of Ghana Business school with first class honours in Business Administration (accounting option). She has an MBA (Finance option) from the same institution.[5]
Career
[edit]Akyianu started work 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]Akyianu was named finance CEO of the year at the third Ghana CFO awards in 2017.[7]
She was nominated among the 60 women rising in Africa in 2017.[8] Patience Akyianu was also nominated at the 2018 GECE Awards.[9]
She was awarded the Nobles International Award (2013), Africa Female Economic Champion-Banking (Centre for Economic & Leadership Development (CELD)-2014), and was inducted into Global Women Leaders Hall of Fame (CELD- 2014) and Woman of Excellence in Finance (Ghana CFO Awards 2015). She was a nominee in the Top 50 Rising Stars in Africa (The Africa Report, May 2014).
In 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.