{"id":228704,"date":"2026-03-27T13:23:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T11:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-sidian-bank-poaches-john-okulo-from-kcb-for-md-ceo-post\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T13:23:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T11:23:32","slug":"kenya-sidian-bank-poaches-john-okulo-from-kcb-for-md-ceo-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-sidian-bank-poaches-john-okulo-from-kcb-for-md-ceo-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Sidian Bank Poaches John Okulo From Kcb for Md, CEO Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Sidian Bank has appointed John Okulo as its new Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, effective May 1, 2026.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Okulo joins from KCB Bank Kenya, where he currently serves as Director of Corporate Banking, overseeing strategic client relationships, financial performance, and risk frameworks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">He will replace Chege Thumbi, who is set to retire on June 30, 2026, after nine years at the helm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Sidian Bank Board Chair James Macharia said Thumbi leaves behind a strong legacy, having led&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603270297.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Sidian Bank has appointed John Okulo as its new Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, effective May 1, 2026. Okulo joins from KCB Bank Kenya, where he currently serves as Director of Corporate Banking, overseeing strategic client relationships, financial performance, and risk frameworks. He will replace Chege Thumbi, who is set to retire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":228705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,7089,7213,9726,21378,4688,430,257,54015,35683,9145,42075,254],"class_list":["post-228704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bank","tag-ceo","tag-john","tag-kcb","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-okulo","tag-poaches","tag-post","tag-sidian","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}