Godfrey Muhindo has been appointed Chief Commercial Officer for MTN Mobile Money Uganda Ltd. Reporting to the Managing Director, he will be responsible for Corporate Sales, Mobile Money Distribution, Mono Pay Sales and Agent Servicing.
Previously, Muhindo was Current Head of Merchant Portfolio at Airtel Mobile Commerce Uganda Ltd where he was in charge of driving the OTC- (Over the Counter) payments service strategy for Airtel Money.
Godfrey is a financial services management specialist, deeply experienced in dealing with Corporate, Retail and Consumer Clients with a bias in Financial Technology and business development. He served at three commercial banks including; Barclays Bank Uganda (2007-2015) as an Acquiring Manager, Account Manager- Barclaycard having previously worked in her Branch Retail and Operations functions and Ecobank Uganda (2015-2018) as Head of E-Channels where he had a rare opportunity of leading a number of Cards and E- Channels projects like Mobile Banking, Prepaid Cards, ATMs relocation, MasterCard issuing & Acquiring and Mobile Micro lending.
He started his career at Post Bank Uganda where he worked as a Banking Officer in branch operations from 2006-2007.
He prides himself as one of the first professionals in Uganda to take on the herculean task of rolling out local currency card payments in Uganda’s retail sector which was dominated by cash and the leisure and hospitality sector that only accepted Foreign debit and credit cards in USD currency.