ATLAS Mara Limited

Strategic Update & Leadership Changes - Seite 2

Biographies

Sanjeev Anand

Sanjeev has been Managing Director of Banque Populaire du Rwanda Ltd (BPR) since January 2016. BPR was formed by the merger of BRD-Commercial Rwanda with BPR. The majority shareholder is Atlas Mara and Rabobank is the largest minority shareholder.

Prior to his current appointment, Sanjeev Anand was Managing Director of I&M Bank Rwanda Limited (previously Banque Commerciale du Rwanda-BCR). During this period, he managed the transition of ownership of the bank from Actis to the I&M consortium, comprising I&M Bank, DEG and PROPARCO.

Prior to joining BCR/I&M, Sanjeev had a long career spanning 25 years with Citibank, where he held a number of senior assignments across Asia, Europe, America and Africa. Some of the key positions he held during this period were as CEO of Citibank in Zambia and Uganda and Executive Director of Citibank Nigeria.

Mike Christelis

Mike Christelis joined Atlas Mara as the Head of Treasury and Markets in 2015. Mike has a total of 30 years corporate and banking experience.

Prior to joining Atlas Mara Mike worked for Barclays Africa and Absa Capital for seven years, the last three of which he was the Head of Markets for Sub-Saharan Africa. In this role, he managed the markets area of the 12 Barclays Africa businesses. During this time Mike was responsible for transforming the business from a purely retail managed business into a full investment bank operation, growing the product range while at the same time implementing a rigorous control framework and growing revenue.

Mike also worked for 11 years at Rand Merchant bank in various roles as well as in corporate treasury at Bayer and Siemens.

Chidi Okpala

Chidi was appointed Chief Digital Officer at Atlas Mara in January 2016 to drive the Innovation, Digital Financial Services and Financial Inclusion agenda across our sub-Saharan franchises.

Prior to that, he was with Bharti Airtel International as CEO for Airtel Money, with responsibility for Mobile Money businesses across 17 countries in Africa. While at Bharti, he built Airtel Money to become one of the largest providers of Retail Financial Services in Africa with 12m active (90Day) customers and over 100m and $2B in monthly transaction count and value.

Before Bharti Airtel, he was the Division CEO for Retail Banking at United Bank for Africa Plc, overseeing Personal and Business Banking in 19 countries. He earlier had a two-year stint with Accenture as a Senior Consultant in the Strategy and Business Architecture.

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