Managing Director and Head of Sub Saharan Africa at Bank of America.
Founder Adara Foundation.

Yvonne Ike is a Managing Director and Head of Sub Saharan Africa at Bank of America. Yvonne has more than 25 years, experience in the financial services sector.

Yvonne is a trustee of Christopher Kolade Foundation and The Dangote Foundation. She is passionate about actively contributing to Africa’s development and set up Adara Foundation in 2016 to help Africa’s socio-economic development by catalyzing the transformation in women and youth.

In 2020 Yvonne joined the Global. Advisory Council of  the Oxford University Business School.

Yvonne has received many international awards, including being recognized for being in the top 200 business women to make a significant impact in society by the Queen of England in 2007. She was additionally placed in the UK Powerlist, for the 100 most influential black people in 2019 for the third year in a row. In 2019 she was also recognised as one of the Top 100 Women CEOs in Africa.