C-Suite Leadership

Paddy Muramiirah to lead Crown Beverages’ entry into Kenyan soft drinks market

Muhereza KyamuteteraC-Suite LeadershipCompany NewsThe Big StoryJanuary 17, 2024March 1, 2024

Crown Beverages (Mauritius) Ltd has appointed Paddy Muramiirah, formerly, the Crown Beverages Uganda Chief Executive Officer to head its entry into the Kenyan market. Last week, we reported that the…

Cente Tech’s Peter Kahiigi to speak at the #JourneyToCIO boot camp

Muhereza KyamuteteraC-Suite LeadershipCompany NewsNews & AnalysisJanuary 15, 2024January 15, 2024

Ahead of the “The Journey to CIO” inaugural boot camp that starts on 24th January 2024, Peter Kahiigi, the Centenary Technology Services Ltd (Cente-Tech) Chief Technology Officer, has been unveiled…

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

Muhereza KyamuteteraC-Suite LeadershipCEO PerspectivesThe Big StoryDecember 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

Muhereza KyamuteteraC-Suite LeadershipCompany NewsGlobal 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

The CEO Magazine TeamC-Suite LeadershipCompany NewsExecutive ProfilesThe Big StoryDecember 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 

Muhereza KyamuteteraC-Suite LeadershipCEO PerspectivesThe 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…

Josephine Ossiya appointed CEO of Uganda’s Capital Markets Authority

Muhereza KyamuteteraC-Suite LeadershipExecutive ProfilesPolitics & GovermentThe 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…

THE CFO ROLE⏤ “It’s about value-addition, stupid!”⏤ A Q&A with MTN Uganda’s CFO, Andrew Bugembe

Muhereza KyamuteteraC-Suite LeadershipCEO PerspectivesThe Big StoryNovember 14, 2023November 14, 2023

Tell us about yourself and your career summary- especially the Bugembe that we don’t already know.  The normal Andrew, not the MTN Andrew is a happily married man with two…

BILLIONAIRES: Meet BIDCO’s Vimal Shah, the richest East African who still dreams big

CEO ReporterBillionairesC-Suite LeadershipThought LeadershipNovember 6, 2023November 6, 2023

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…

Q3 2023 Performance: Claver Serumaga, leads turnaround of NCBA Tanzania 

Muhereza KyamuteteraBusiness & MarketsC-Suite LeadershipThe Big StoryNovember 5, 2023November 5, 2023

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,…