With the cooptation of Diakarya OUATTARA as Director of the Coris Bank International Group to replace Emmanuel SAWADOGO, admitted to claiming his retirement rights after twelve years of hard work, the Pan-African bank is continuing on its fundamentals by giving the bonus to pioneers and priority to internal promotion.
The new Managing Director is indeed one of the pioneers who joined Coris Bank International in September 2007 and who rose through the ranks according to the principle of meritocracy, loyalty and commitment, three founding values of the philosophy of the Chairman of the band.
Previously Managing Director of Coris Bank International Burkina, the group’s first subsidiary, listed on the Regional Stock Exchange (BRVM), Diakarya OUATTARA is replaced at this level by Mrs. Gisèle GUMEDZOE OUEDRAOGO, who joined the subsidiary in April 2008, rising there the steps to become Deputy Managing Director in 2017.
It is up to Madame Madame Gisèle GUMEDZOE OUEDRAOGO, unbeatable in customer service, to maintain the pace and achievements of Coris Bank International Burkina Faso. Need we remind you, Coris Bank International Burkina is the leading bank in the country of honest men, the second largest capitalization in Abidjan as of December 31, 2021.
As for the rigorous Diakarya OUATTARA, by accessing the upper gateway, he will ensure in his new functions of director of Coris Bank International, the coordination between the 9 subsidiaries of the Group and will play the role of transmission belt between the administrators and the directors and, within the holding company, with Mrs. Alice Kaboré, DGA in charge of support functions, nicknamed the guardian of the temple.
At the country level, faces stand out like Aissata KONÉ SIDIBÉ, for nine years at the head of Coris Bank International Mali, de facto dean of the CEOs of subsidiaries by seniority in the position. The one who has been president of the Professional Association of Banks and Financial Institutions of Mali (APBEF) since February 2022 is part of the rising wave alongside Sanon Mamadou, managing director of Coris International Côte d’Ivoire, supported since mid-September by two assistant directors. They are the discreet Alexis Sankara, formerly customer director in Burkina Faso and now DGA in charge of operations, and Jean Baptiste Kouamé, who has moved from Group Treasury Director to DGA in charge of support functions. In strong progress, Coris Bank Côte d’Ivoire celebrated in April at the same time the crossing of the threshold of 1000 billion FCFA of total balance sheet, the integration in the top 7 of the Ivorian banking sector and the inauguration of its brand new headquarters. new on Boulevard Valéry Giscard d’Estaing in Treichville.
These new appointments consolidate the vast reorganization program started five years ago and which saw the separation of the functions of Chief Executive Officer from that of the Chairman. Since 2016, the group’s founder, Idrissa Nassa, has taken a step back from operations by becoming chairman of the board of directors. At the same time, new profiles are promoted.
The mix between pioneers, experienced executives and young talents like Ibrahima Fall, CEO of Coris Bank International Senegal (assisted since the beginning of September 2022 by Prosper Zongo, until then Group Risk Director), Rakiatou Idé ISSAKA , Director of Coris Bank International Niger, Jean-Jacques Golou, Managing Director of Coris Bank International Benin (which recently celebrated its fifth anniversary by joining the top 5), Alassane Kaboré, Director of Coris Bank International Togo, Myriam Koné, CEO of Coris Bank International Guinea Bissau, subsidiary opened in March 2022, or Towodan Fidèle Désiré Toko, promoted at the beginning of September Deputy General Manager of Coris Bank International Togo, Stephane Axel P. Tapsoba, since September CEO of Coris Bank International Burkina Faso in charge of exploitation, shows if necessary the multinational character of the group. The process of institutionalization (depersonalization), which lays the foundations for a long-term banking group, will give West Africa one of its first banking groups to conquer the rest of the continent.