Managing Director
Gbenga Makinde
Gbenga Makinde is the Managing Director/Chief Executive of United Bank for Africa (Tanzania) Limited, a subsidiary of the United Bank for Africa Plc with presence in 20 African countries, USA and United Kingdom.
Prior to his appointment as MD/CEO of UBA Tanzania, GMak was the MD/CEO of UBA Benin Republic, another subsidiary of UBA Plc, which he turned around within a year, thereby moving to the #3 bank with recognition as the Banker’s Magazine Best Bank awards in Benin Republic in two consecutive years – 2020 and 2021.
Gbenga (commonly known as GMak) has almost two and half decades in the banking with core competences in Credit Risk Management; multinational Fast-Moving Consumer Goods organisations; Commercial, Retail, and Branch management.
He is an alumnus of Lagos Business School with Executive Master’s Degree in Business Administration and a fellow of the Institute of Credit Administration, Nigeria.
About
United Bank for Africa (T) Ltd
UBA successfully raises N20 billion debt capital and acquires majority interest in banks in Burkina Faso and the Republic of Benin. Operations in other African countries; Kenya, Uganda, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Sierra Leone and Mozambique, Chad, Congo Brazzaville, Congo DR, Gabon, Guinea, Senegal, Tanzania and Zambia commence