[ 2021-02-11 ]

Patience Akyianu

Patience Akyianu joins Hubtel as non-executive director
Award-winning banking, finance and insurance
executive Patience Akyianu has joined Hubtel as a
non-executive director.

Hubtel is one of Africa’s fast evolving
fintech-shopitality platforms, and largest
messaging service provider with operations in
Ghana and Kenya. The company has been expanding in
innovative ways focused on helping retailers sell
and deliver to nearby communities.

In August 2020, Hubtel was given regulatory
approval by the Bank of Ghana to operate as a
licensed Enhanced Payment Services Provider. This
also followed the company’s international
certification for PCI-DSS and ISO 27001 bank card
information security and general management
standards.

The inclusion of Patience Akyianu to the
leadership of the company brings her impressive
wealth of expertise as a solid executive with over
26 years of experience in Finance, Banking and
Insurance.

Patience is currently the Group CEO of Hollard
Ghana Holdings, a subsidiary of Hollard
International – South Africa, and a Director on
both boards of the company’s subsidiaries,
Hollard Insurance Ghana, and Hollard Life
Assurance Ghana.

She was also the first Ghanaian woman to become
the Managing Director of Barclays Bank in Ghana
(now ABSA Bank).

In a chat from his base in London, the Chairman of
Hubtel, Hans Nilsson, said that “….we are very
very excited to have a Director of that kind of
calibre on our board. A company with the type of
ambition that Hubtel is pursing needs the
experience and advice of people who have done it
at the highest levels. And that’s exactly what
we know we will get with someone like
Patience.”

Under her visionary leadership, the Hollard brand
has now gained prominence and visibility in Ghana
and has introduced some innovative products,
including Ghana’s first virtual insurer, a
Chatbot nicknamed Araba Hollard.

Her tremendous leadership skills and execution
capabilities have been recognized with prestigious
awards and accolades including Marketing Woman of
the Year 2019, Outstanding Group CEO of the Year
2019, Woman of Excellence 2019, and Best Woman CEO
of the Year 2018.

Patience is a certified professional accountant
and a member of the Institute of Chartered
Accountants, Ghana. She is also on the board of
Ecobank Ghana Limited, and a founding member of
both the Executive Women Network and the
International Women’s Forum, Ghana.

She is married to Lawyer Kwame Akyianu and has two
children, Awurama Ampima Akyianu and Nana Banyin
Kojo Akyianu.

Source - Citinewsroom

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