THE CFO ROLE⏤ “It’s about value-addition, stupid!”⏤ A Q&A with MTN Uganda’s CFO, Andrew Bugembe Andrew Bugembe the MTN Uganda CFO is a man who wears many hats. He has been MTN Uganda’s CFO and Board Member since April 2020, at the onset of the COVID-19 epidemic. In September this year, he was also appointed the board Chairperson of MTN South Sudan. Overall he has spent 25 years with the MTN Group, having been amongst the first cohort that set up the telco in Uganda in October 1998. In those 25 years, he has also served in Rwanda, Ghana, Liberia and Congo-Brazzavile, before returning home to take up the CFO role. In this interview with CEO East Africa Magazine’s Muhereza Kyamutetera, Andrew speaks about his career, lessons learned and unlearned as well as how to not be a 2G CFO in a 5G world; the art of saying “yes” or “no” and why just a “yes" or “no” without the “why” doesn’t work anymore. A confessed digital-first CFO he also shares about his knack for leaders who do ‘cuckoos’ things as well as resilience, strategy, execution, and governance.