Dr. Abdulmajid Mussa Nsekela
Group Chief Executive Officer | CRDB Bank
Dr. Nsekela was appointed Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO) & Managing Director of CRDB Bank Plc in October 2018.
Abdulmajid Mussa Nsekela is a seasoned African business leader; with close to three decades of leadership experience and a successful career in investment, business, retail, wealth management and private banking in East Africa. He has vast experience in Transformational Leadership, Business Turnaround and Strategic Management. In the first decade of his career, Nsekela served in various positions, spanning business functions, bank operations, control functions and people management. He later served in diverse strategic leadership positions, including Financial and Strategic Planning, Risk, Governance, Auditing and Compliance.
Dr. Nsekela has also held leadership roles on various Management Boards in the country. He currently serves as Chairman of the Tanzania Cooperative Development Commission (TCDC), the Arts and Culture Fund (Bodi ya Sanaa na Utamaduni), and the Tanzania Small Holders Tea Development Agency (TSHTDA). He is also a council member of the Tanzania National Business Council (TNBC) - Finance Working Group; and a member of the boards of the Tanzania Financial Inclusion National Council (TFINC), Mwanamke Foundation (MIF), and the Economic & Social Research Foundation (ESRF). Previously, he served on the boards of the Tanzania Private Sector Foundation (TPSF) and the Tanzania Mortgage Refinance Company Limited (TMRC). He also the immediate former Chairman of the Tanzania Bankers Association (TBA), having served the association for four years between 2018 and 2022.
Dr. Nsekela holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration - International Banking Finance (MBA-IBF) and a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration (PGDBA) from Birmingham University (UK). He also has an Advanced Diploma in Banking from the Institute of Finance Management (IFM), Tanzania. He is a graduate of Harvard Business School’s Authentic Leadership Program.