IFC Head of Banking joins COMBank Board

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Shareholder International Finance Corporation (IFC) has appointed H. John Wilson as its nominee to the Board of Commercial Bank as a Non-Executive Director. IFC holds a 5% stake in Commercial Bank whilst it has done a major debt syndication for the Bank. Wilson is the Head of Banking and Chief Banking Specialist of the IFC/World Bank Group where he joined in January 2009. Wilson is a Swedish national resident in Nairobi, Kenya. He holds a Master’s Degree in Economic and Political Science from Uppsala University, Sweden and a Master of Public Administration degree from Princeton University USA. He has held several key positions over a period of nine years as Vice President and Senior Vice President at Swedbank, the largest retail bank in Sweden, overseeing exports, project finance, structured finance, equity capital markets, international strategy, mergers and acquisitions and investor relations. Wilson also served as Managing Director and Head of Investment Banking for the Swedish operations of a large retail bank.

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