Victor Yaw Asante
Managing Director/CEO
Mr. Victor Yaw Asante’s career commenced over two and half decades ago in 1996 as a sales and marketing professional with Unilever Ghana Limited. After two years at that organization Victor joined Merchant Bank, now Universal Merchant Bank where he worked in the Marketing, Sales, Corporate Relations, and PR functions. Victor is currently the MD/CEO of FirstBank Ghana, a subsidiary of Nigeria’s oldest Bank, FirstBank.
Prior to his appointment as the Managing Director of First Bank Ghana LTD, Victor was the Head of Corporate and Institutional Banking with oversight responsibility for Commercial Banking Business at First National Bank Ghana, a subsidiary of the First Rand Group of South Africa.
He also worked with the Standard Chartered Bank Group, serving variously as the bank’s Managing Director and Head of Corporate and Institutional Clients at its Botswana subsidiary, and as Managing Director and Regional Head of Transaction Banking, based in Ghana with additional responsibilities over other West African countries including Cameroun, Cote D’Ivoire, Gambia and Sierra Leone.
Victor holds an MBA from the University of Ghana Business School, and a Bachelor of Science (Hons.) in Agricultural Economics from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing both in the U.K. and Ghana, and an honorary member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers, Ghana. The Chartered Institute of Marketing Ghana (CIMG) has conferred on him, a Chartered Marketer status.
Victor has been trained at very notable organizations and attended acclaimed leadership programmes like the Rand Merchant Bank Lead Program and INSEAD Singapore Impact Your Leadership programme among others.
A father of two children, Victor is an amateur golfer and scrabble player as well as humanitarian who is a Past Club President and a Past Assistant Governor of Rotary International, Ghana.
He was the last Rotary International District Governor for Rotary District 9102 which covered Ghana, Togo, Benin, and Niger.
Mr. Asante has been recognized and rewarded by many reputable organizations like the Global Brand Magazine Awards and KN Unique Communications with the Best Banking CEO in Ghana, 2023 award and CEO of the Year, 2023 (Banking & Finance) at the 6th Ghana West Africa Business Excellence Awards respectively.
