AYV News, January 7, 2025
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Guaranty Trust Holding Company Plc (GTCO Plc), Mr. Segun Julius Agbaje, has been honored as African CEOs Magazine’sTop 100 CEOs in Africa for the year ending 2024.
GTCO Plc is the parent Company for Guaranty Trust Bank in Sierra Leone and other parts f the world.
CEO Segun Julius Agbaje is the Group Chief Executive Officer of Guaranty Trust Holding Company Plc (also known as GTCO PLC) a multinational financial services group, that offers retail and investment banking, pension management, asset management and payments services, headquartered in Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria.
He is also a Director of PepsiCo and member of the Mastercard Advisory Board, Middle East and Africa.
Segun Agbaje attended St Gregory’s College, Obalende, Lagos State, Nigeria, and St Augustine Academy, Kent, England, for his secondary education. He then proceeded to University of San Francisco, California, where he earned Bachelor of Accounting and Master of Business Administration degrees.
He started his career working for Ernst & Young in San Francisco and left in 1991 to join the startup GTBank. He rose through the ranks to become an Executive Director in January 2000, and Deputy Managing Director in August 2002.
Agbaje was appointed Group CEO of Guaranty Trust Holding Company in August 2021 after he stepped down from his role as Managing Director of Guaranty Trust Bank.
Agbaje was elected to the board of directors and audit committee of PepsiCo effective 15 July 2020.
Awards won by GTBank under Agbaje’s leadership include Best Bank in Nigeria by Euromoney; African Bank of the Year by African Banker Award; Best Bank in Nigeria by World Finance UK; Most Innovative Bank by EMEA Finance; Best Banking Group by World Business Leader Magazine and Best Bank in Nigeria award by the Banker Awards.
The African CEO magazine’s Top 100 CEOs in Africaannual list is an initiative to profile the Best-PerformingCEOs on the continent. The list is calculated by measuring financial returns during each CEO’s entiretenure and factoring in two assessments of eachcompany’s environmental, social, and governance practices.
Africa’s Top 100 CEOs initiative will help drivediscussion of how society should measure a businessleader’s performance. The goal of the listing is to helppromote discussions in the business environmentfocusing on leadership, growth/return on investment,ESG, and sustainability across Africa.
The 100 CEOs represent 18 nationalities and 100companies located in 18 African countries. Womenrepresent 15 percent of their male counterparts, which isa significant move towards having more women inleadership or CEO roles in large corporations on thecontinent
