Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI), parent company of the Ecobank Group, has hired Amin Manekia as Group Executive of its Corporate & Investment Banking business, effective July 4, 2016.

He will report directly to the Ecobank Group CEO and will be responsible for the following business lines: Corporate Banking Group; Transaction Service Group; Investment Banking Group; Fixed Income, Currencies & Commodities (Treasury); and Securities, Wealth and Asset Management.

Manekia steps into the position vacated in late 2015 by Charles Kié, who moved to become Managing Director of Ecobank Nigeria.

Manekia’s joins Ecobank with 28 years of international corporate banking experience.

His career spans various business and regional leadership roles across different parts of the world, notably the US, Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

Manekia was most recently with Citigroup, where he spent 25 years of his career.

He joined Citigroup directly from university in the United States in 1988, moving to South Africa earlier this year as Managing Director and Africa Head for Citi Securities & Banking.

In this role, he successfully led Citibank’s Institutional Clients business.

Before his move to South Africa, Manekia spent two transit years at the Samba Financial Group in Saudi Arabia.

There, he was the executive responsible for rebuilding the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s corporate banking portfolio following the financial crisis.

Prior to this, he held various positions with Citibank in different businesses and regions.

These included his Nairobi-based role as Managing Director & Banking Head for East and Southern Africa, with business management responsibilities for corporate banking for that region.

Manekia holds a degree in Business Administration and Finance from Boston University School of Management.

Incorporated in Lomé, Togo, Ecobank Transnational Incorporated is the parent company of the independent pan-African banking group, Ecobank, which currently has a presence in 36 African countries.