Uganda’s 100 Leading and Most Admired CEOs 2024
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, in the CEO East Africa Magazine’s inaugural 100 Leading & Most Admired CEOs In Uganda Survey.The 2-in-1 CEO East Africa Magazine’s Most Trusted and Respected Companies & The Most Admired CEOs in Uganda Survey 2024 is part of the magazine’s thought leadership agenda that seeks to create a body of knowledge on what exactly great companies and great leaders are made of, as well as recognise them.“This, we believe will both guide and inspire the next generation of great companies and leaders,” explains the magazine’s Executive Editor, Muhereza Kyamutetera.The first set of survey results, which covers the 100 Most Trusted and Respected Companies in Uganda was published this week, on Tuesday, 20th August 2024- (see full list here: https://www.ceo.co.ug/ceo-east-africa-magazine-ranking-ugandas-100-most-trusted-and-respected-companies-2024/). Altogether the survey, which was carried out in two rounds, involved 1,071 respondents online. 57.24% of the respondents were male and 42.76% female. 43.45% of the respondents reported that they were between the ages of 31 and 40, while 27.59% were above 40. The majority of respondents were at the senior management/exco level (37.24%), while 33.79% were either at the CEO/Managing Director/General Manager/Executive Director or Founder/Shareholder and Board Director levels.In both rounds of the survey, respondents were asked first of all to define what an admired CEO is made of, by ranking a set of leadership traits and then based on that ranking of traits, respondents were asked to mention at least 3 CEOs across various sectors that they thought were the leading CEOs and the ones they admired most. According to the survey, respondents ranked integrity, honesty, trustworthiness and reliability as the most important set of traits of a leading and most admired…