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[1] Patience Akyianu is a Ghanaian Banker . [2] [3] She is currently the Chief Executive Officer, Ghana at Hollard Insurance, and a former managing director of Barclays Bank Ghana ( now Absa Bank Ltd).
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| Occupation | Banker |
[1] Patience Akyianu is a Ghanaian Banker . [2] [3] She is currently the Chief Executive Officer, Ghana at Hollard Insurance, and a former managing director of Barclays Bank Ghana ( now Absa Bank Ltd).
Patience Akyianu completed her Secondary School education at Wesley Girls' Senior High School in Cape Coast, the capital of the Central Region (Ghana) [4] . She Later graduated from the University of Ghana Business school with first class honors in Business Administration (accounting option). She also holds an MBA (Finance option) from the same institution. [5]
Patience Akyianu started her banking journey at Standard chartered bank as a financial controller. She rose to the position of Chief Financial Officer (CFO) in the South African office of the Standard chartered bank Africa regional operations. [6]
Patience Akyianu was awarded the finance CEO of the year at the 3rd Ghana CFO awards in 2017. [7] She was also nominated among the 60 women rising in Africa in 2017. [8] Patience Akyianu was also nominated at the 2018 GECE Awards. [9] Nobles International Award (2013), Africa Female Economic Champion-Banking (Centre for Economic & Leadership Development (CELD)-2014), she was inducted into Global Women Leaders Hall of Fame (CELD- 2014) and Woman of Excellence in Finance (Ghana CFO Awards 2015). Nominee in the Top 50 Rising Stars in Africa (The Africa Report, May 2014) 2021 she was African Female Business Leader of the Year [10]
Wesley Girls' High School (WGHS) is an educational institution for girls in Cape Coast in the Central region of Ghana. It was founded in 1836 by Harriet Wrigley, the wife of a Methodist minister. The school is named after the founder of Methodism, John Wesley.
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