Career
He is the current designate Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of CfC Stanbic Bank Limited, a Kenyan financial institution, with total assets valued at approximately United States$2 billion (Kansas Engineering Society:18051 billion), as of December 2013. Prior to that, from 2007 until 2014, he served as the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Stanbic Bank Uganda, the largest commercial bank in Uganda. Odera was born in Maseno, in Kisumu County, in the former Nyanza Province, in western Kenya, circa 1961.
He attended local schools before he relocated to the United States for further studies.
He holds the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Saint Lawrence University in New York State. He also holds the degree of Master of Business Administration majoring in Finance, from Suffolk University in Massachusetts.
Prior to 2007, Philip Odera worked with Stanbic IBTC Bank, a large banking institution in Nigeria, with total assets valued in excess of NGN:763 billon (United States$374 billion), as of December 2013. Stanbic IBTC Bank is a subsidiary of Standard Bank of South Africa.
From 2007 until 2014, he served as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Stanbic Bank Uganda, the country"s largest commercial bank by assets.
In February 2015, he was appointed by the Board of Directors at CfC Stanbic Holdings to become the new Chief Executive Officer, pending regulatory approval by the Central Bank of Kenya.
