Corporate Information

Mr Giles is currently Senior Banking Advisor, Retail Banking, at Access Bank Plc in Lagos, Nigeria, where he is responsible for delivering performance goals across consumer banking, emerging businesses, agency banking, financial inclusion and digital businesses (lending, mobile, telco partnerships).

He was previously Head of Retail Banking and Head of Transaction and Electronic Banking at Nigeria’s Diamond Bank Plc.

Among his many achievements, Mr Giles transformed Diamond’s retail from being branch-led to digitally-driven with over 90% of all transactions carried out electronically. As Head of Cards, Africa for Standard Bank, he developed the entities card business outside South Africa, and established governance frameworks for better management of the business across credit risk, fraud, marketing and technology.

Among other financial institutions, Mr Giles has also worked at BMI Bank in Manama, Bahrain; Barclays Egypt in Cairo; and Barclays PLC, UK.

Mr O’Neill is a Chartered Accountant with a strong focus on South Africa’s short term insurance sector.

He is currently Chief Executive Officer with Bryte, where he was appointed in 2012.

Mr O’Neill’s current board positions are with Bryte Africa Group, Bryte Insurance Company and the South African Insurance association (SAIA).

Previous positions include Managing Executive at Barclays Africa (Absa); CFO at Barclays Bank; and Partner at KPMG, among others.

With more than 22 years of experience in the financial services industry, Mr Ogbonna is currently Group Deputy Managing Director at Access Bank Plc, Nigeria, where he oversees all international subsidiaries as well as the wholesale bank.

Mr Ogbonna has also held the position of Executive Director – Wholesale Banking Division at Access Bank Plc, as well as Executive Director – Commercial Banking Division; Divisional Director – Commercial Banking Division Lagos; Super Regional Head – Island Commercial Banking Region; Group Head Commercial Bank V/I & Ikoyi; and Team Leader at Corporate Banking Group.

With his illustrious career in the financial services sector and a number of degrees from distinguished institutions including Harvard Business School, Harvard Kennedy School, Cheung Kung Graduate School of Business, and the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Mr Ogbonna is also a Member of the Future Leaders Group of the Institute of International Finance and a member of the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts, among others.