Mr. Sionlé YEO
Presentation
Mr. Sionle YEO, Group CEO of AFG Holding is an engineer by training from École Centrale de Marseille for Civil Engineering and Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble for Automation and Industrial Computing). He began his career as a Systems and Network Engineer at Énergie Electrique de Côte d'Ivoire (EECI), before joining the Société Générale Group. In Côte d'Ivoire he held the positions of Chief Information Officer, Chief Finance and Information Officer, before being promoted Deputy Managing Director of SGCI in 2008.
He was subsequently appointed Managing Director of the Société Générale universal banking subsidiaries in Burkina Faso (2011), then in Ghana (2015). In these two countries, he led a deep transformation and a rapid expansion programs that increased both the visibility and the profitability of the banks.
In 2018, the Société Générale Group appointed him to build and lead the newly created Regional Directorate for Central and Eastern Africa, headquartered in Douala and covering 6 countries, a position he left in June 2021 to join the AFG Group.
