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Submit SomeoneKenny Fihla is Group Chief Executive Officer and an executive director of Absa Group and Absa Bank, effective 17 June 2025.
Kenny Fihla is Group Chief Executive Officer and an executive director of Absa Group and Absa Bank, appointed with effect from 17 June 2025.
Before Absa he spent about 18 years at Standard Bank Group. He joined in 2006 as head of Investor Services in Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB), became head of Transactional Products and Services for Standard Bank CIB in South Africa in 2008, deputy chief executive of CIB in November 2016 and chief executive of CIB from May 2017 to August 2024. From 1 September 2024 he was Deputy Chief Executive of Standard Bank Group and Chief Executive of Standard Bank South Africa, accountable for the group's subsidiaries outside South Africa.
Kenny holds an MSc in Financial Economics from the University of London and an MBA from the University of the Witwatersrand.