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From A Bank Teller To CFO Of Stanbic, Uganda’s Largest Bank⏤ Tracing Ronald Makata’s Story

by Muhereza KyamuteteraQ + AsThe Big StoryThe CFO PlaybookDecember 10, 2023December 10, 2023

Serving as Chief Finance Officer is the dream for most finance professionals; could you please share with us your journey to becoming Chief Finance and Value Management Officer (CFVO) at…

Airtel Africa Taps Former Amazon Web Services’ Yashnath Issur As CEO for Nxtra, Its New Data Centre Business

by Muhereza KyamuteteraAfricaCEOsCompany NewsNews & AnalysisThe Big StoryDecember 5, 2023December 5, 2023

Airtel Africa today has launched, Nxtra by Airtel (“Nxtra”), a new data centre business founded on what the telco says is a “commitment to meet the continent’s growing needs for…

Ronald Makata appointed Chief Finance & Value Management Officer of Stanbic Bank Uganda

by The CEO Magazine TeamCompany NewsProfilesThe Big StoryThe CFO PlaybookDecember 5, 2023December 5, 2023

Ronald Makata has been named new Chief Finance and Value Management Officer for Stanbic Bank Uganda replacing Abraham Ongenge who has since moved to Stanbic Bank Kenya as the Executive…

Q&A: Revisiting 9 Years of Tony Glencross at Monitor Publications and how the business is morphing into a digital business of the future 

by Muhereza KyamuteteraCEOsQ + AsThe Big StoryDecember 2, 2023December 2, 2023

It has been announced that your time at Nation Media Group comes to an end at the end of December 2023. It has been quite a run. Do recap for…

From a poor village boy who shared a grass-thatched house with goats, to a minister and now UCC Executive Director⏤Hon. Nyombi Thembo’s story

by Muhereza KyamuteteraGovernment AgenciesProfilesThe Big StoryDecember 2, 2023January 15, 2024

George William Nyombi Thembo was born in 1964, just two years after Uganda’s independence to the late Erisa Somongu- a political activist and a Kabaka Yekka die-hard, Eseza Nanyonga Ziribasanga…

Josephine Ossiya appointed CEO of Uganda’s Capital Markets Authority

by Muhereza KyamuteteraCEOsGovernment AgenciesProfilesThe Big StoryWomen In LeadershipDecember 1, 2023December 4, 2023

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…

Umeme’s Florence Nsubuga switches to new role as Berkeley Energy’s Uganda CEO

by CEO ReporterCompany NewsProfilesThe Big StoryWomen In LeadershipNovember 23, 2023November 23, 2023

Florence Nakimbugwe Nsubuga, the long-serving Umeme Limited Chief Operating Officer, is leaving the the power distributor for a Country CEO role at Berkeley Energy Uganda Limited, CEO East Africa Magazine,…

EXCLUSIVE: Andrew Mashanda to leave Stanbic Uganda Holdings Limited Chief Executive Role

by Muhereza KyamuteteraCompany NewsProfilesThe Big StoryNovember 22, 2023November 22, 2023

After three years at the helm of Stanbic Uganda Holdings Limited (SUHL), Andrew Mashanda is set to leave the Chief Executive role, CEO East Africa Magazine can exclusively reveal. He…

Waiting to step into giant shoes: Meet Uganda’s billionaire heirs and heiresses

by CEO ReporterBillionairesThe Big StoryNovember 22, 2023November 22, 2023

By Michael Kanaabi Dollar Being born with a silver spoon in the mouth as the English love to say is ideally every one’s wish especially if you have faced some…

Birungyi, Barata & Associates At 20 Years: A Q&A with Cephas Birungyi and Enoch Barata on how they built Uganda’s leading tax law firm from scratch

by Muhereza KyamuteteraIndustry & AnalysisQ + AsThe Big StoryThe LawyerNovember 18, 2023November 18, 2023

20 years later, the firm has blossomed into one of Uganda’s most respected tax law firms, commanding more than 50% of all tax litigation in the country. The firm has…