Phillips Oduoza, with over 38 years of banking experience in major financial institutions, is the founder and Chairman of the board of NOVA Bank.
Prior to promoting NOVA, he served as the global CEO of UBA Group and was part of the team that established Diamond Bank Plc, where he rose to the position of Executive Director in 1999. He started his banking career in 1989 with Citibank, where he trained in every aspect of banking after a brief stint with International Merchant Bank (IMB).
He has served on the board of some key names such as Diamond Bank Plc, Interswitch Plc, Value card Plc (Unified Payment Services Plc), Nigeria Interbank Settlement System (NIBSS), Nigeria Payment System, Nigeria Economic Summit Group (NESG), Financial Markets and Dealers Quotations (FMDQ), UBA Capital, UBA Plc, but he currently serves on the boards of Veritas University Abuja, Lagos State Security Trust Fund, Development Bank of Nigeria.
Mr. Oduoza is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers (FCIB) and has a BSc. Hons with First Class in Civil Engineering, an MBA (Finance), and is an alumnus (AMP) of Harvard Business School.
