Rogers
obtained a Bachelors degree in Accounting from
the University of Nigeria in 1992 and qualified
as a professional Accountant with the Institute
of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria in November
1996. He also holds a Masters in Business Administration
(MBA) from Warwick Business School, University
of Warwick, a top 5 UK business school and has
attended several professional courses covering
financial services products marketing, credit
analysis and administration, customer services,
team building, etc.
Rogers commenced his banking career in April 1994
with Ivory Merchant Bank Limited as a Reconciliation
Officer with responsibility for managing the bank’s
nostro accounts. He later joined the retail banking
team of Diamond Bank Ltd in July 1995 as a relationship
officer and served in private banking and consumer
banking units before moving to Abuja in 1996 as
the head of commercial banking in the pioneer
branch and later Dei-Dei branch where he was a
major driver of the bank’s commercial banking
breakthrough in the building materials segment
of the commercial banking business. He later took
on additional responsibility for the bank’s
entire commercial banking business in Abuja until
he resigned in 2000 to pursue other interests.
With the emergence of universal banking regime
in Nigeria, Rogers moved to Devcom Bank Limited
as part of the team to set up strategic framework
and prepare the bank for commercial banking business.
With the launch of the commercial banking strategy,
he joined Associated Discount House Limited as
it’s Head of Business Development for Abuja
and grew the balance sheet by 315% over a 12 month
period. Rogers joined Access Bank Plc on October
2, 2002 as Manager with responsibility for driving
the bank’s Commercial Banking Business in
Abuja. He led the branch to break-even after 6
months. For an outstanding performance at the
bank’s recapitalization exercise in 2004,
he was promoted to Senior Manager Position in
April 2005. After the merger with Capital Bank
International and Marina International Bank in
2005, Abuja became a commercial banking region
with three branches. In April 2006, Rogers assumed
responsibility as the Group Head, Abuja Commercial
Banking and transformed the region to a profit
centre within the first 3 months.
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Rogers
proceeded on a 12 months study leave between
September 2006 and September 2007 during which
he obtained an MBA from Warwick Business School,
UK. Upon return to the bank in October 2007,
Rogers was given the responsibility of starting
a second Commercial Banking region in Abuja
with only one existing branch, Herbert Macaulay
Branch and a mandate to open 10 new branches
by December 2008. Before leaving Access Bank
to set up HASAL Microfinance Bank in November
2008, he built a team of highly motivated employees
for the region and surpassed all quantitative
targets. Born 40 years ago, Rogers is very happily
married to Joyce and blessed with 3 children:
Michael, Emmanuel and Mitchelle.
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