The Board of Directors of Stanbic IBTC Holdings PLC on Monday announced the appointment of Nkemdilim Uwaje as a non-Executive Director with immediate effect.
The Company Secretary, Chidi Okezie, said Ms Uwaje’s appointment followed the receipt of all required regulatory approvals from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
Ms Uwaje’s professional career began in Germany, where she worked on high profile research projects at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Psychiatric Research in the department for Statistical Genetics and Proteomics as well as the Pharmaceutical Company Affectis Pharmaceuticals AG, Germany.
She graduated from the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) & Technical University Munich (TUM), Germany, where she received a Bachelor of Science (BSc. Hons) in Bioinformatics.
Her entrepreneurial journey really started with Future Software Resources Limited, where she has been heading ever since.
Prior to her appointment at Future Software Resources Nigeria Ltd, Ms Okezie said Ms Uwaje was involved in various research projects, such as the Wazobia Linux initiative, the e-Government Interoperability Framework, NITDA Open Standards Framework, as well as the deployment of e-commerce and e-portal solutions in the Nigerian public and private sector.