The Chief Executive Officer of Access Holdings Plc, Dr. Herbert Wigwe is dead.
The banker and entrepreneur reportedly died when a chopper transporting him and five others crashed on Friday in California, United States.
The Will quotes sources that the chopper was headed to Las Vegas when it crashed near a border city between Nevada and California on Friday night.
The US government confirmed that all persons on board died in the accident.
Wigwe was born on 15 August, 1966 in Lagos.
He was the Group Managing Director/CEO of Access Bank plc, one of Nigeria’s top five banking institutions, after succeeding his business partner, Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede in January 2014 till April 2022.
Wigwe started his career at Coopers & Lybrand, Lagos as a management consultant, later qualifying as a chartered accountant.
After a stint at Capital Bank, he joined GTBank where he spent over a decade working in corporate and institutional banking, rising to become the executive director in charge of institutional banking.
In 2002, Wigwe and his business partner, Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede bought into what was then a small commercial bank, Access Bank – at the time, the 65th largest of the 89 banks in the country.
Access Bank is now one of the top five banks in Nigeria and ranked among the top 500 global banks according to a 2015 report by The Banker magazine and is aiming to be Africa’s top bank.
It currently serves over 6.5 million account-holders, through 350 branches and with more than 1,500 ATMs in major centres across Nigeria, Sub-Saharan Africa and the UK.
Wigwe also served as the Chairman of Access Bank Ghana Limited,[5] Access Investment & Securities Limited, Central Securities and Clearing System (CSCS) and is the current Chairman of Access Bank (UK) Limited.
He served as board member of Nigerian Mortgage Refinance Company and a member of the advisory Board for Friends Africa.
He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN – FCA), a Fellow of
The Institute of Credit Administration, and an Honorary member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria.
