The board of Fidelity Bank Plc has announced the appointment of Mr Abolore Solebo as Executive Director.
This was contained in the company’s notice to the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) and the investing public.
According to the statement, the appointment has been approved by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and notice of the same communicated to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) and the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria.
The board noted that it was confident Solebo would make significant contributions to the growth and development of the bank and looked forward to working closely with him to achieve its strategic objectives.
According to the statement signed by the Company Secretary, Ezinwa Unuigboje Abolore, Solebo joins the board with over 24 years of extensive financial services and general management experience in corporate, investment, commercial, retail and transaction banking, enterprise wide risk management, corporate strategy and consulting in Nigeria and the United Kingdom.
Since joining the bank in 2008 as a senior manager, Abolore has held key positions including head of the Corporate Bank Directorate Analyst Group (2008); Division Head of Upstream (2010); Division Head of Energy & Power/Project Finance (2017) and served on various management committees.
Abolore was acting Head of the Corporate Bank Directorate from 2021 until he was appointed executive director.