Hardly two years after arriving in Uganda to take up her very first CEO role at Uganda’s largest telco, MTN Uganda, Sylvia Mulinge has emerged as Uganda’s most admired CEO,...
Relocating to Uganda, moving from Safaricom in Kenya to MTN Uganda, was a journey of many firsts for the MTN Uganda chief executive officer, Ms Sylvia Mulinge. The first hurdle...
Stanbic Bank Uganda has confirmed that it has appointed Mumba Kenneth Kalifungwa as its Chief Executive and, by extension, a member of the Board of Directors, effective March 1, 2025....
Joshua Karamagi was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited (UETCL) in March 2023, at the most unusual of times. He joined the government-owned electricity transmission company...
News is settling in, and the CEO East Africa Magazine has independently verified that the towering Mumba Kenneth Kalifungwa, previously the Managing Director at Absa Bank Uganda, is set to...
Josephine Okui Okwakol Ossiya CPA, FCCA, MBA, has been appointed as the next Chief Executive Officer of Uganda’s Capital Markets Authority (CMA). She replaces Keith Kalyegira who has been the…
When Vimal Shah and his older brother took their ambitious idea for manufacturing consumer goods to potential backers in 1985, they could not get a loan. “Unilever will kill you,” one banker told them. Since then Unilever has sold several brands to them; and international rich lists put them top of the charts – most recently at $1.7bn – in…
NCBA Tanzania, the banking subsidiary of NCBA Group, has released its third-quarter financial report for 2023, showing remarkable growth in a series of bank fundamentals. In results released this week,…
Behind Ruth Zaipuna’s calm demeanor lies a lady who is a fighter and strong willed strategist. Since becoming CEO of the NMB Bank in Tanzania in 2020, she has transformed…
First, tell us about the Centenary Foundation. What is it about and what does it stand for? The Centenary Foundation is one of the subsidiaries of the Centenary Group. It…
Kariuki Ngari usually refers to himself as a village boy at heart. Born and raised on the slopes of Mt. Kenya, he has risen to become a global citizen, leading Kenya’s largest international bank, Standard Chartered Bank (SCB). Kariuki was born to a teacher and a homemaker, the only boy amongst seven sisters. His father imbued him with humility. “In…
After serving two terms in office, Keith Kalyegira will this December step down. In this interview with CEO East Africa’s Muhereza Kyamutetera, he shares a variety of insights on his…
This October, Slyvia Mulinge made 1 year as MTN Uganda’s Chief Executive Officer. Sylvia, the telco’s first female Chief Executive Officer, started work on the 3rd of October 2022. Incidentally, this month,…
In bid to curb climate change effects in Uganda, CEOs have been urged to integrate sustainable practices in their business model to avert risks associated with climate change. The call…
