Cameroonian, Felix Landry Njoume, is new boss of ECOBANK Central Africa.

His appointment was approved in November 2022 by the board of directors of the Pan African banking institution.

In a statement released recently, the chairman of the board of directors of Ecobank Central Africa, Sylvain Maliko, announced the approval of the appointment of the Cameroonian.

The Cameroonian financial expert, who previously held the position of group director of the diaspora bank within the Ecobank group, replaces Sylvain Pendi Bisseyou, who came to the end of his mandate.

While now at the head of the Central African subsidiary of the pan-African banking group based in Lome, Togo, the Cameroonian will be expected to make use of the experience accumulated over twenty years in the banking sector, and mainly within the Ecobank group.

 "The professional background of the new Managing Director will help him provide assurances to the Board of Directors, which has asked him to inscribe his mission in the right line of the achievements of years of reforms, focusing efforts on a sustainable transformation of Ecobank Central Africa, at a time of digitalization, an objective stated by the Ecobank Group”, said the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ecobank Central Africa SA.

A graduate of the Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales, Essec of the University of Douala, Felix Landry Njoumé holds a Master’s degree in management and an MBA from the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de l'Université Paris I-Sorbonne, in France.

Felix Landry Njoumé at the end of 2021, completed the acquisition of 54% of the capital of Union Bank of Cameroon (UBC) by the State.

This transaction, which the new ADG of Ecobank Central Africa led to completion in his capacity as Managing Director of Union Bank of Cameroon, was accompanied by a recapitalization to the tune of 17.8 billion FCFA, which also led to the exit of the Ecobank Group from the shareholding of this bank in difficulty since 2009.

Prior to his new appointment, Felix Landry Njoume held important management positions within the Ecobank group.

In particular, he was chief financial officer of Ecobank Congo-Brazzaville from 2008 to 2011.

For the next nine years, he was executive assistant to the managing director of the Ecobank Group's CEMAC team, Ecobank's finance director for Cameroon and the CEMAC zone, director of the commercial banking division for Cameroon and the CEMAC zone, and then director of the retail banking division for the same region.