In the world of corporate governance, commercial law, and professional ethics, few Ugandan or regional figures carry the authority and global resonance that Winnie commands. A distinguished lawyer, academic, and…
Renowned strategic and corporate communication professional Sarah Kagingo was Thursday night, 4 December 2025, honoured with the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award at the 9th Public Relations Association of Uganda (PRAU)…
Anne Juuko, previously the Regional Head, East Africa for Global Markets at Standard Bank Group, has resigned her role effective 30th November 2025, CEO East Africa Magazine can exclusively reveal.…
As Knight Frank Uganda marks 25 years, how would you sum up what this milestone represents — for you as a leader, and for the legacy you’ve helped build? Twenty-five...
To unpack what this means for institutional investors, the economy, and Uganda’s place in regional and global markets, Muhereza Kyamutetera, Executive Editor of CEO East Africa Magazine, sat down with...
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 action in the running and transforming of their organisations. Alongside that conversation has been the rise as well as, of the need for CFOs with an entrepreneurial mindset⏤ a way of thinking that emphasizes innovation, creativity and taking calculated risks⏤ instead of the traditional mindset that is more preoccupied with financial management and risk mitigation. Entrepreneurial CFOs are willing to challenge the status quo, and are open to continuous learning…
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Stanbic Uganda’s Chief Executive, Anne Juuko will take up her new role as Standard Bank’s Regional Head, Global Markets, this April, CEO East Africa Magazine, can exclusively reveal. According to our insider sources at Stanbic Bank, her new role, although it has been in the corridors and subject to much speculation will be announced next week. It is not yet clear whether her replacement will be announced at the same time. She has been Chief Executive of Stanbic, Uganda’s largest lender, for exactly four years, having assumed leadership in March 2020, at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in the…
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Emma Mugisha, the current Executive Director and Head of Business Banking at Stanbic Bank Uganda has been picked by Nigeria’s pan-African Access Bank Plc, for a continental regional role, that we understand, includes overseeing Access Bank Plc’s integration of its recent acquisition on the continent. According to our sources, who decline to be named, “Emma Mugisha, has been recruited as part of the CEO pipeline at Access Group. She will undergo a 6 months robust induction process at the Group in Lagos after which she will be posted to one of the bank’s regions.” Access Bank Plc, recently announced that…
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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 top and middle-level management. Ritah Mutesi Kabayiza, the Executive Director of Willis Towers Watson Uganda (WTW), one of Uganda’s top 5 insurance brokers, is one of the few women who have broken the industry glass ceiling. With over 16 years in the insurance business, she started her insurance brokerage career at Eagle Africa Insurance Services (U) before moving to Gras Savoye Uganda Insurance Brokers Ltd as a Senior Client Manager….
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CEO Magazine looked up the proprietor of the curiously named (to the layperson) fashion brand that has carved a niche for itself as a bridal designer and go-to option for the woman looking to make a statement, because, we had questions, inevitably: Where’s the name Dyna Vence Couture from? It’s actually my name. Dyna Vence is my name and I am the proprietor of Dyna Vence Couture. My maiden name was Dyna Vence Ahimbisibwe. When I got married that changed to Dyna Vence Ruvuza. So you named the brand after yourself…how long have you been in the fashion business?…
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TravelNeza’s CEO, Laura Kagame, has worked to ingrain the concept of travel for leisure into the marketplace that is the travel industry in Uganda. Passionate about travel and with an eye for a niche in an industry that she has been deeply grounded in. She’s shaken things up a little in this industry, what with the unusual name, and with a niche that increasingly has the attention of the mainstream market, so we undoubtedly had questions. What is the origin of the name TravelNeza? How long have you been in the tours and travel business? What is your speciality? TravelNeza is…
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Few indigenous Ugandans can match Mariam Luyombo’s record when it comes to investment in the education sector. A teacher by training, Luyombo and her husband Abbas Luyombo are successful business people who manage various business ventures.However, it is their schools that have made them prominent, particularly Mariam who runs and founded them. The investment in schools started in 1991 when Mariam founded Taibah High School Kampala. She subsequently founded Silver Spoon Daycare Center Kampala in 1996, Taibah Junior School Entebbe Road in 1998, and Taibah College School Entebbe Road in 2000. Students at one of the Taibah International Schools that…
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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, Central Uganda in the present day Gomba District. He had a coffee farm there. My mother’s dad, Captain Arthur Johnson had settled in Masaka District, where he married a Muganda lady. Therefore both my father, Mr. George William Blick and mother, Molly Johnson Blick were half Ugandan and half British. I was born in Fort Portal where my father was a district engineer for the Ministry of Works. My mother…
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In her bio on Linked-In, Susan Nsibirwa, the newly appointed managing director of Monitor Publications Limited describes herself as “an avid team player who believes in bringing out the best in everyone.” When she embarks on this new journey in January 3, 2024, she will have to fully summon this belief in the hope that revives an institution currently buffeted by a myriad of challenges. Nsibirwa was part of a cohort of young journalism graduates who joined Daily Monitor in 1992. Others in the group included Linda Nabusaayi, the former presidential press secretary and Laura Mulenga. Her beat was largely…
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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 CMA Chief Executive since December 2013 and his two-term office has elapsed. Established in 1996 under the Capital Markets Authority Act (Cap 84), the CMA promotes, develops and regulates Uganda’s capital markets industry. One of Uganda’s most respected and trusted finance professionals and business leaders, Josephine Ossiya brings to CMA a 27-year finance career and a wealth of management, finance and accounting as well as project management skills. As a…
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