By InvestAdvocate

Lagos (INVESTADVOCATE)-Lender, Sterling Bank Plc on Friday said it has appointed Michael Jituboh as non-executive director on its board; Jituboh is currently the executive director, Special Projects of Globacom Limited, according to Sterling Bank in a notice to the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE).

The Bank says he worked for 17 years in the African Development Bank in Ivory Coast where he successfully held the positions of loan officer, seniour executive in charge of International Organisations, special assistant to the president and director, International Co-operation Department.

Jituboh has been on mission to many African countries and also widely travelled to the Middle East, Europe, Asia and the American continent. He has an extensive background experience in Project Lending and Management. He previously served as non-executive director on the boards of the erstwhile Devcom and Equatorial Trust Banks, Sterling Bank said.

He holds a B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from the Federal City College (now University of Washington DC), USA and an MA in Economic Studies from Stanford University, California, USA. He is an alumnus of the Harvard Business School, Program for Management Development (PMD).

Shares of Sterling Bank at the close of Friday’s trading on the Nigerian equities market climbed up 3.03 percent to N1.70 per share from N1.65 per share traded the previous session.