Sonny Zulu, Managing Director, Consumer, Private and Business Banking, UAE Standard Chartered Bank

Sonny is the Head and Managing Director of the Consumer, Private and Business Banking business at Standard Chartered Bank, UAE. He is responsible for developing and driving the retail business strategy while balancing governance, financial performance, risk management, distribution, and people development.

Prior to this role, Sonny was the Regional Head of Strategic Transformation, Alliance and Performance Management for Africa and the Middle East at Standard Chartered Bank. Before relocating to Dubai, Sonny was the Head of Retail Banking for Standard Chartered Bank Zambia and Southern Africa. He took up senior leadership responsibilities at a very young age and he has held a number of senior executive roles in the Bank which include; Head of Retail Clients, General Manager for Distribution for Zambia and Southern Africa and Head of Corporate Affairs.

As an entrepreneur, Sonny is a joint owner of Air Mafuta Aviation services. He founded this company in 2009 together with two other Directors. The company supplies aviation fuel to both local and international clients.

Sonny holds an MBA from Manchester Business School and he has a degree in Metallurgy and Mineral Processing from the University of Zambia. As part of his personal development, Sonny has completed several executive programmes at Oxford University in the United Kingdom, Duke Corporate Education in Singapore and INSEAD in Singapore.

Sonny is married to Ngosa and he has three sons – Joshua, Josiah and Joel. Outside the work arena, Sonny enjoys travelling, astronomy, natural history and following latest natural and science discoveries.