{"id":20653,"date":"2021-01-05T17:44:50","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T14:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=20653"},"modified":"2021-01-05T17:44:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T14:44:59","slug":"dfcu-bank-appoints-veronica-sentongo-as-chief-change-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/05\/dfcu-bank-appoints-veronica-sentongo-as-chief-change-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Dfcu Bank Appoints Veronica Sentongo As Chief Change &#038; Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dfcu Bank has appointed Veronica Sentongo as the Bank\u2019s Chief Change &amp; Innovation Officer who will support the implementation of its growth and transformation strategy with specific focus on driving the digital agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prior to joining dfcu Bank, she&nbsp;served as Group Head of Digital Innovation at&nbsp;ICEA LION in Nairobi, where she championed the inception of the Grown and Innovation Centre and implementation of the company\u2019s Digital Strategy across Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She also worked at Stanbic Bank where she spearheaded the Digital Transformation Journey as Head, Digital Banking; and attained numerous accolades for her contribution towards Innovation, Risk and Security, Commercialisation, Customer Delight and growing the Digital revenue lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She is a certified project management expert, holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering &#8211; majoring in Telecommunications &#8211; and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, both from the University of Cape Town. &nbsp;She also received the prestigious Meraka Institute Scholarship from the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) where she worked in several roles within the engineering field.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Veronica began her career in 2004, as a Trainee Engineer at Multi-Konsults Engineering Consultancy and then moved on to Network Switch Planning at MTN-Uganda. While doing her Master\u2019s degree at the University of Cape Town, Veronica was appointed President of the Institute for Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) &#8211; Student Chapter.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As she joins dfcu Bank, Victoria brings on board vast experience in Microfinance, Financial Inclusion, Digital Money, Data Analytics and Project Management. Her passion for Technology, Financial Inclusion, Customer-centricity and Digital Transformation will complement dfcu Bank\u2019s transformation journey towards Bank 4.0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dfcu Bank has appointed Veronica Sentongo as the Bank\u2019s Chief Change &amp; Innovation Officer who will support the implementation of its growth and transformation strategy with specific focus on driving the digital agenda. Prior to joining dfcu Bank, she&nbsp;served as Group Head of Digital Innovation at&nbsp;ICEA LION in Nairobi, where she championed the inception of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":20654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[1671],"class_list":["post-20653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-dfcu-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20655,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20653\/revisions\/20655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}