United Bank for Africa CEO to Address Infrastructure Conference

12 September 2006
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Corporate Council on Africa (Washington, DC)
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Mr. Tony Elumelu, recently appointed Group Managing Director and Chief Executive of United Bank for Africa, will address the first annual U.S.-Africa Infrastructure Conference from September 27-29, 2006. Mr. Elumelu will speak at the Financing Your Projects Plenary on Friday September 29, 2006 alongside distinguished, senior speakers from the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation and the U.S. Export Import Bank.

United Bank for Africa is the largest financial services institution in West Africa with more than five million customer accounts. The bank has 428 retail distribution centers across Nigeria and five branches in Ghana. The bank also has a presence in New York and on the Cayman Islands.

United Bank for Africa is the first corporate merger in the history of Nigerian banking. The merger comprised Nigeria’s third and fifth largest banks, namely the old United Bank for Africa and Standard Trust Bank. United Bank for Africa also subsequently acquired Continental Trust Bank.

Elumelu was appointed Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Standard Trust Bank in 1997, a position he held until the successful completion of its merger in August 2005. He has extensive experience in the private sector including as the founding Director of Transnational Corporation and as a member of the governing council of the Financial Institutions Training Center. He is also the President of the West African Bankers' Association (Nigerian chapter) and Vice Chairman of Standard Trust Bank (Ghana) Limited.

WHAT: Mr. Tony Elumelu

“Financing Your Projects”

U.S.-Africa Infrastructure Conference

WHEN: September 29

09:00 AM – 10:00 AM

WHERE: Grand Ballroom (Salons A-E)

Bethesda Marriott Hotel

5151 Pooks Hill Road

Bethesda, Maryland

CCA, established in 1993, is a nonpartisan 501(3) (c) membership organization of nearly 200 U.S. companies dedicated to strengthening the commercial relationship between the U.S. and Africa. CCA members represent nearly 85 percent of total U.S. private sector investments in Africa. Visit CCA on the web at www.africacncl.org 

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