Guaranty Trust Bank (Ghana) Limited has appointed Mr. Thomas Attah John as its new Managing Director effective Friday, March 16, 2018.<\/p>\n
He replaces Mr. Lekan Sanusi who takes up a new position as Managing Director of Guaranty Trust Bank Uganda Limited.<\/p>\n
Mr. Thomas Attah John, an astute banker, is also a Certified Brewer and Chemist with a combined work experience of over fourteen (14) years.<\/p>\n
He holds a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree in Pure and Applied Chemistry from the University of Calabar, a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from the Lagos Business School, Pan Atlantic University and a Certificate in Management Performance Measurement from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and is currently pursuing a DBA programme at the Southern California University.<\/p>\n
Mr. Thomas Attah John has worked in Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, Nigeria for over thirteen (13) years and his experience cuts across several units in the Bank.<\/p>\n
He started his banking career with the Bank from Entry Level and has risen through the ranks to top management position.<\/p>\n
Commenting on the appointment of his successor, Mr. Sanusi expressed confidence and optimism in the performance of Mr. Thomas Attah John, saying;<\/p>\n
\u201cI have known Thomas to be a smart-working professional who would no doubt be a great asset to GTBank Ghana and a good news to all stakeholders\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is surely bringing a lot of zeal and commendable experience to continue from where I have left off and so I wish him success\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n
Mr. Lekan Sanusi also seized the opportunity to express his gratitude to all stakeholders for making his tenure in Ghana a fruitful and successful one.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thank the Board of Guaranty Trust Bank (Ghana) Limited, all customers of GTBank, regulators, media partners, hardworking staff of the bank and the many friends I have made in the course of my work for their support and patronage during my days in Ghana\u201d, he stated<\/p>\n
Lekan\u2019s achievement and appreciation<\/strong><\/p>\n The fortunes of the bank under Mr. Sanusi have matured significantly.<\/p>\n From a position of GHS21 million in profit before tax at the end of financial year 2011, Mr. Sanusi has gradually grown the bank\u2019s profits year-on-year to GHS128 million at the end 2017, a cumulative growth of over 509%.<\/p>\n Total Assets size has also grown from a little over GHS400 million at the end of 2011 to over GHS1.8 billion the same period in 2017, at a year-on-year cumulative growth rate of 350%.<\/p>\n Guaranty Trust Bank (Ghana) Limited\u2019s performance under Mr. Sanusi has also been duly recognized by various Awards bodies, especially in the area of technology in banking and innovation.<\/p>\n Under his tenure, the Bank won over 42 awards.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Credit: Guaranty Trust Bank (Ghana) Bank<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Guaranty Trust Bank (Ghana) Limited has appointed Mr. Thomas Attah John as its new Managing Director effective Friday, March 16, 2018. He replaces Mr. Lekan Sanusi who takes up a new position as Managing Director of Guaranty Trust Bank Uganda Limited. Mr. Thomas Attah John, an astute banker, is also a Certified Brewer and Chemist […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":413232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,32,171,11],"tags":[18227],"class_list":["post-413231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking-and-finance","category-business","category-local-economy","category-top-stories","tag-guaranty-trust-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=413231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/413232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=413231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=413231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=413231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}