Stanbic Bank Botswana appoints new key executives

Stanbic Bank Botswana has appointed key executives to fortify the Country’s Leadership Committee (CLC) of the Bank.

Lesego Osman has been appointed Head of Business & Commercial Clients (BCB). Lesego’s role is to be responsible for executing the BCB strategy and leading the team to deliver on the Bank’s shared purpose, anchored with a passion for building local capacity and delivering sustainable value for clients. 

His 20 years of experience was delivered to roles in Corporate & Investment Banking, Global Markets, and Non-Bank Financial Institutions in various banks, and has worked in key African markets such as South Africa and Malawi. Lesego doubles as an expert in asset and liability management, Custody, and FX trading activities, including FX Sales, domestic bond, and money markets desks.

Pinkie Douglas, now the current Head for People and Culture, will also be responsible for providing strategic direction to the business on all Human Capital matters, guiding the business to develop fit for purpose innovative People Solutions to deliver a great employee experience and leverage the Bank’s employee value proposition. With over 15 years of experience in the financial services sector, Pinkie is a seasoned  Human Capital Professor. She begun her career in Stanbic Bank Botswana’s Learning and Development team before moving to Business Partnering as P&C Business Partner in retail banking in Stanbic Bank. first as a Senior P&C Business Partner and member of the P&C EXCO team for Stanbic IBTC (Nigeria) and then to Standard Lesotho Bank as the Interim Head of People & Culture before returning to Botswana as Head of people & Culture. Pinkie has been on Stanbic Bank  Group assignments for the last 16 months.

The Bank’s Head of Compliance is Titose Musa. Passionate about building a culture of Compliance Compliance,Titose has over 24 years’ experience in the financial services sector. Her expertise spans between banking compliance, people management, change management, organisational strategic alignment, and risk/financial management. She joins us from Absa Bank (former Barclays Bank) and was also at Standard Chartered Bank Botswana prior to that. She recently completed an 18-month Africa Executive Leadership, as well as extensive training in Corporate Governance, Compliance and Risk, Anti-Money Laundering Programmes, Consumer Credit and Project Management, and Ethics Training.

“We continue to better gear ourselves to becoming a platform business that creates value for clients and the communities we serve through access to digital financial and related solutions that support sustainable growth. Doing this requires three key things: a robust strategy, the right infrastructure, and the right people. We believe we have all three, and with these new appointments of Lesego, Pinkie and Titose, fortify this even further. This is how we commit to driving Botswana’s growth and create more exceptional experiences,” said Stanbic Bank Botswana Chief Executive, Chose Modise. All appointments were made effective 1 May 2023.

Source: The Patriot