Standard Chartered appoints J. Kweku Bedu-Addo as Area Head of Origination & Client Coverage, West & Central Africa
January 2009, Accra - Standard Chartered Bank has announced the appointment of Mr. J. Kweku Bedu-Addo as the Area Head of Origination & Client Coverage for West Africa with responsibility for Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Gambia and Sierra Leone. Until his appointment he was a Director in the Wholesale Bank Head Office in Singapore.
He joined Standard Chartered Bank Ghana Ltd. in 2000 as a Relationship Manager and rose through the ranks to become an international resource in January 2004, when he was appointed the Head of Corporate & Institutional Banking at Standard Chartered Bank Zambia plc. He was later appointed to the Bank’s Board in Zambia as the Executive Director for the Wholesale Bank, where he represented both the Corporate Bank and Global Markets Departments. Under his stewardship, the business performance of the Wholesale Bank in Zambia rose several fold to become one of the Bank’s key markets in Africa.
Commenting on his new role, Mr. Bedu-Addo said,
“I am extremely pleased and honoured to be back home after a number of years on international assignment. In the coming years, our focus will be to combine the local scale of our business with the expertise around the Standard Chartered Group to bring value adding product offerings and services to our esteemed wholesale bank clients, especially for local corporates.”
In 2007, Mr. Bedu-Addo was appointed a Program Director at the Wholesale Bank Group’s Head Office in Singapore to head one of the Wholesale Bank’s strategic projects; a multi million global Client Relationship Management project. Also in 2007, Mr. Bedu-Addo was as one of 22 individuals named globally as recipients of the Standard Chartered Bank Wholesale Bank Star Performer Award. While in Singapore, he also chaired the committee tasked to internalize Sustainable Lending Principles across the Bank and represented the business in the wholesale bank credit risk and operational risk governance committees.
Kweku takes over from Alex Mould who is currently pursuing other interests outside the bank after 6 years of dedicated service. Under Alex’s stewardship, Wholesale Banking Ghana remained one of the major contributors to the business in Africa, during which period, there was broad diversification of the product offering within the Wholesale business into more value added products and services.