Ciko Thomas

Chief Executive, Personal and Private Banking, Nedbank Personal and Private Banking

Ciko Thomas is Chief Executive, Personal and Private Banking of Nedbank Personal and Private Banking.

Personal and Private Banking is one of two clusters formed when Nedbank reorganised its Retail and Business Banking division in 2025, the other being Business and Commercial Banking. Thomas led the former Retail and Business Banking division from April 2016.

In the job

  1. Nedbank appointed Thomas head of retail and business banking, taking over from Phillip Wessels. Source

  2. Nedbank created a Business and Commercial Banking cluster under Andiswa Bata when it split its Retail and Business Banking division. Source

Career before

  1. Group Marketing Director, automotive division, Barloworld
  2. General Manager, Retail Banking Marketing, Absa
  3. 2010Group Executive, Group Marketing, Communications and Corporate Affairs, Nedbank
  4. 2010Managing Executive, Consumer Banking, Nedbank
  5. 2016Group Managing Executive, Retail and Business Banking, Nedbank

Education

BSc, University of Cape Town; MBA, University of the Witwatersrand; Advanced Management Programme, Harvard

Sources

  1. group.nedbank.co.za
  2. cfo.co.za
  3. sharedata.co.za

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