Kenyan banking giant KCB Group, has appointed Paul Russo as its new chief executive officer. Russo will succeed Joshua Oigara, who has served as the bank’s topmost leader since 2013.
The outgoing CEO at KCB, Joshua Oigara is scheduled to exit his office this week.
The incoming KCB bank boss, Russo is a seasoned human resources manager and HR expert, who currently leads a KCB subsidiary National Bank of Kenya (NBK).
Russo served as group head of human resources at KCB before being appointed to run NBK in 2019 after it was acquired by KCB. He previously worked at Barclays and PwC.
He is a Senior Pan-Africa HR Executive; Champion for Transformation and was named among the Top 100 Global Human Resource Directors at the 2015 World HRD Congress; Awarded Africa Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) in 2016.
KCB’s growth under Joshua Oigara included the acquisition of lenders in Tanzania and Rwanda.
