Olukorede Adenowo

Chief Executive Officer | FirstBank UK

Olukorede Adenowo, (K.O), is the Chief Executive Officer of FirstBank UK

He held the position of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) Nigeria before taking on his role at FirstBank UK in November 2023.

Prior to this, he served as MD/CEO for SCB Gambia, including responsibility for Senegal, as well as DMD/DCEO for SCB Cameroon and Managing Director Corporate, Commercial, and Institutional Banking for SCB Nigeria and West Africa.

K.O has also been a Non-Executive Director of SCB Gambia and SCB Sierra Leone, Vice President of the Gambia Bankers Association, and Trustee of the Institute of Bankers of Gambia.

With 38 years of post-university experience in Banking, Finance, and Consulting, he was honoured with the 2015 Distinguished Alumni award by Deloitte Nigeria, Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria in 2003, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria in 2024.

K.O qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1990.