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Leadership impact

1,500 active agents

Scaling a Productive Five-State Agency Network

Built active-agent capacity, customer acquisition, transaction volume, liabilities and field-sales capability across five South-East states.

Area Manager, Agency Banking · Ecobank Nigeria · 2020–2022

Context

Agency banking across Abia, Anambra, Enugu, Ebonyi and Imo states required a repeatable field model for identifying agents, activating customers, improving transaction consistency and building commercial value.

Mandate

Manage the regional Xpress Point business, including agent acquisition, customer growth, transaction performance, liabilities, partnerships and field-team capability.

Leadership intervention

  • Built a structured acquisition and activation rhythm across five states.
  • Recruited, trained and managed a field sales force of more than 30 staff.
  • Developed retail alliances and local market relationships.
  • Tracked active-agent productivity and transaction outcomes.
  • Connected distribution growth with customer acquisition and liability mobilisation.

Reported outcome

1,500

Active agents onboarded within one year.

36,000

Customers acquired within one year.

200,000+

Average monthly transaction count.

NGN 9B

Monthly transaction value, with liabilities improved to NGN 2 billion.

Why it matters

The experience provides a practical basis for diagnosing network activity, field execution, liquidity, customer behaviour and commercial sustainability.

This page describes a professional leadership contribution within an employer context. Results were enabled by teams, institutional systems and market conditions. It is not a client case study or an endorsement by the named organisations.