Board of Directors

CHAIRMAN

Momodou Y. M. Sallah, brings to the board 41 years of diverse and progressive technical and managerial experience in insurance, investment analysis and project evaluation, financial management, banking, assets management, recovery of non-performing assets, and public administration. At the time of his appointment, he was on retirement from active service.

He served in both the private and public sector, locally and internationally, in the capacity of secretary of state (minister) in two separate portfolios, the department of state for trade, industries and employment (responsible for ECOWAS affairs), and the department of tourism and culture; managing director / CEO; financial controller; investment analyst / corporate specialist; and an entrepreneur. He also served as a member of the Board of Directors in most of the public enterprises in The Gambia, including the Social Security and the Housing Finance Corporation, and the National Water and Electricity Corporation.

During his career development, he had the privilege to be invited by reputable international institutions of excellence, including Harvard Institute of International Development in Massachusetts, and the World Bank in Washington DC, to share some of his work experiences with their staff or students in the form of presentations usually lasting over three hours per session.

Momodou holds a master’s degree in Public Administration / Public Policy, from Harvard University, in addition to being a Chartered Accountant (Ghana and Gambia), a Microsoft Certified IT Professional, and a professional lawyer (LLB, BL). Currently, working on his LLM dissertation. He had further professional training in Executive Credit Program (Chemical Bank, New York); Foreign Investment Negotiation (International Law Institute / Georgetown University, Washington DC); Seminar on Power System Planning and Project Management, (organized by The Electricity Supply Board of Ireland, and the Economic Development Institute of the World Bank, Nairobi, Kenya); Seminar on Financial Programming and Policy (IMF, in Freetown); and Insurance and Reinsurance Accounting (Alexandra Howden Reinsurance, London, UK).

DIRECTOR

Mr. Mam Sait Jallow is an experienced aviation specialist with renowned leadership and management competences of international standing.He obtained a Master of Science degree in Airport Planning and Management from Loughborough University of Technology (UK) and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronic Engineering from Bolton Institute of Technology (UK).Mr. Jallow’s work experience spans 39 years over which he served as Director General and CEO of The Gambia Civil Aviation authority; Air Transport Director for the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in Abuja, Nigeria; and Regional Director for West and Central Africa of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in Dakar, Senegal. He presently works as an aviation and development services consultant.Over the period, he has planned and managed numerous aviation infrastructure projects, institutional reforms and capacity building initiatives at the national, regional and international levels.

DIRECTOR

Mr. Felix Egbon is the Chief Risk Officer of the bank. He is the Group Head, Risk Management Group of the bank.

He participated in the establishment of a robust Risk Management function in the bank.

Mr. Egbon joined the services of the bank in May 2006 with responsibility for branch coordination and subsequently Internal Control and Audit and was responsible for review and enforcement of the bank’s procedures, controls and policies in branches bankwide.

He is a fellow, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), honorary member, Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria and Senior member, Risk Management Association of Nigeria.

Prior to his engagement with Zenith Bank, he had worked with Pricewaterhouse Cooppers as Audit Senior, Auditing and Business Advisory Services; United Bank for Africa Plc as the Principal Manager in charge of branch coordination, internal control and Audit responsible for review and enforcement of procedures, controls and policies in the bank branches.