By Phillip Wafula
Albert Saltson has been appointed the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Standard Chartered Bank Uganda. This follows the transfer of the bank’s former CEO Herman Kasekende to Standard Chartered Zambia. Kasekende was the bank’s first Ugandan boss and had served in this position since July 2012.
55 year old Saltson is a Ghanaian national and has been the Bank’s CEO for Gambia since 1st June 2015. Prior to joining Gambia, Saltson was the Bank’s CEO of Sierra Leone where he was influential in driving overall performance in line with business strategy and governance. It is there that he demonstrated exceptional leadership having joined as a management trainee. He boasts of over 25 years’ experience with Standard Chartered Bank – with 20 years in several senior management positions including Executive Director Consumer Banking, Zambia and later Executive Director Consumer Banking in Ghana.
He holds a BA (Hons) from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Masters of Business Administration (MBA) in International Banking from the prestigious Henley Management College, United Kingdom, and is an alumnus of Oxford University.
Saltson brings hands-on skills in Credit Risk, Valuation, Business Analysis, Operations Management, Program Management, Contract Negotiations, Operations Risk Management, Investment Banking, Retail Management and Trade Finance among others.
According to sources at Standard Chartered (Uganda) that sought to remain anonymous, Saltson’s appointment was supposed to take effect on 2nd January 2017.
