Executive Profiles

NO ORDINARY CFO: From risk management to risk taking; meet Rocket Health’s Fiona Nuwamanya

Muhereza KyamuteteraExecutive ProfilesThe Big StoryWomen In LeadershipFebruary 27, 2024February 27, 2024

The evolving role of the CFO to Chief Value Officer has taken centre stage in recent years with organisations and CFOs themselves demanding to take more and curving out more…

Alice Namuli Blazevic⏤ A technology lawyer extraordinaire

Muhereza KyamuteteraExecutive ProfilesLegal & JusticeThe Big StoryFebruary 23, 2024February 23, 2024

She is a Partner and Head of the Technology and Innovation practice at KATS – Katende, Ssempebwa & Company Advocates one of Uganda’s leading 5 law firms. She has a…

Women Breaking the Insurance Glass Ceiling: Ritah Mutesi Kabayiza, Executive Director, Willis Towers Watson Uganda

Muhereza KyamuteteraExecutive ProfilesThe Big StoryWomen In LeadershipFebruary 2, 2024February 2, 2024

While the gender gap in the insurance industry has over time narrowed to 51.78% male and 48.22% female at the end of 2022, the gap remains wide, especially at the…

Gen James Mugira: The humble soldier driving Uganda’s economic transformation agenda at NEC

CEO ReporterExecutive ProfilesThe Big StoryJanuary 24, 2024January 24, 2024

Whenever the term economic transformation is bandied about, the key players in this effort that we normally think about are government technocrats, politicians and the private sector. Rarely do we…

The phenomenal story of Prof. Dr. Maggie Kigozi, the Gayaza High School alumna who became one of Uganda’s most loved, trusted and influential business leaders of our generation.

Muhereza KyamuteteraBillionairesExecutive ProfilesThe Big StoryWomen In LeadershipJanuary 11, 2024May 3, 2024

Let’s start from where it all started. Tell us about your childhood, growing up and early working days. My father’s dad Mr. Penn Blick was a British settler in Gomba,…

Bank of India taps Israel Opio to head its risk management unit in Uganda

CEO ReporterCompany NewsExecutive ProfilesJanuary 9, 2024January 9, 2024

Bank of India, in Uganda, has hired Israel Opio as its Head of  Risk Management. The appointment is subject to regulatory approvals.   Israel is a seasoned risk management expert…

Dr. Alan Senkatuka Shonubi⏤Senior Statesperson, Business Leader, Entrepreneur, Musician And Philanthropist⏤ What A Man!

Muhereza KyamuteteraCEO PerspectivesExecutive ProfilesThe Big StoryJanuary 9, 2024March 12, 2024

Away from the law, Dr. Alan Shonubi is a distinguished business and opinion leader. He has either previously or is currently serving as the Chairman for Uganda Breweries Limited and…

The Journey to CIO with Elijah Kitaka⏤ Meet Rita Kabatunzi, one of the mentors

The CEO Magazine TeamExecutive ProfilesThe Big StoryThought LeadershipJanuary 8, 2024January 8, 2024

We all know Elijah Kitaka in Uganda’s technology space. We also know the ex-Google and former NSSF and Stanbic Bank CIO’s love for technology as well as his passion for…

How African Queen’s Sophie Nantongo built a multi billion distribution company from a cosmetics shop

CEO ReporterBillionairesExecutive ProfilesThe Big StoryJanuary 8, 2024January 8, 2024

In the late 80s, Sophie Nantongo, then in her early 20s set up a cosmetics shop in Makindye, a Kampala suburb. According to a friend, she was coming out of…

THE SECRET BILLIONAIRE: Sanjay Awasthi, the man behind Uganda’s Tembo Steels

Muhereza KyamuteteraBillionairesCEO PerspectivesExecutive ProfilesThe Big StoryJanuary 8, 2024December 19, 2024

When he came to Uganda, back in 2000, Sanjay Awasthi chose the latter- and he does it with zero importation of physical steel, unlike most of his peers and competitors….