Edna Torana, Scanad Uganda’s new Country Lead, did not come to the top of Uganda’s advertising industry by being parachuted into power. She came up the hard way — through…
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...
Anne Juuko, the Chief Executive Officer of Uganda’s Stanbic Bank; Ruth Zaipuna, the Chief Executive Officer of Tanzania’s leading bank, NMB Bank Plc and Jane Karuku, the Group Chief Executive Officer of East African Breweries Limited, have been named amongst the second annual Africa.com Definitive List of Women Chief Executive Officers. The list that is run to mark International Women’s Day, by Africa.com, celebrates women who run big businesses in Africa. Data used to generate the list was sourced from Bloomberg according to the statement released by Africa.com. “In short, the list represents the women who run big businesses in…
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Ecobank, the leading pan-African bank, on Monday March 7th, 2022, announced the launch of a revamped Ellevate program focused on giving women-owned businesses; businesses with a high percentage of female employees or board members or businesses making products for women, access to a variety of specialty tools and resources needed to thrive and prosper. The Ellevate Programme is a membership offering that provides a specialist suite of services designed to reduce barriers faced by women in business, through a three-tier approach, namely, smarter cash management and collections, favourable lending rates as well as empowerment through leadership training, support and development….
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Grace Nshemeire-Gwaku has been appointed the new Chief Operating Officer at Private Sector Foundation Uganda (PSFU). Grace is a results-oriented business leader with extensive experience across various functions and countries. Having spent 18 years in the private sector, She has held various leadership positions some of which were at an executive level. She has collaboratively led projects across functions& countries, created growth drivers, written, and implemented annual business plans as well as strategies, partnered brilliantly with both internal and external stakeholders. Prior to this role, Nshemeire-Gwaku was the regional head of marketing, international premium spirits, and reserve brands at East…
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By Beatrice Mujuni Just recently, following the full re-opening of the economy, I have been reflecting on a number of issues concerning Uganda and I can’t help to wonder if as a nation we have discovered what to treasure and what trash. The past two years gave way for intense reflection and if anything, despite the great loss of lives and livelihoods suffered, it was an opportunity to learn, unlearn and re-learn. One of my reflections is the fact that Uganda has one of the youngest populations in the world. According to the World Bank, Uganda holds 2nd place in…
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Coca-Cola Beverages Africa in Uganda has appointed Deborah “Debbie” Komugisha Kakande as Human Resources Manager while Mary Nassali is Strategy & Performance Director for Central Africa Region (Uganda, Tanzania and Ghana), based in Uganda. Kakande is a skilled Human Resources professional with over fourteen (14) years’ experience. She joins from Housing Finance Bank, where she worked for the past six years as the Manager of the Human Resources Development. During this time, she gained vast experience leading culture change processes, developing and implementing talent management frameworks and developing business partnering models to support achievement of the Bank’s business goals. Prior…
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Jyotsna Ruparelia Jyotsna is a director of Ruparelia Group of Companies and also a co-founder of the Ruparelia Foundation and she heads the grants division. She is an active board member of several group companies of the Ruparelia Group. Jyotsna Ruparelia has been instrumental on the growth and expansion of the Ruparelia Group business with active participation in the operations and management of the insurance, property development and investments and all other business ventures, assisting in making policy decisions and directing the management in the successful operation of the of the various businesses. Her expertise is in foreign exchange operations and financial management….
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Uganda’s Doreen Nsasiirwe, the proprietor of Kisoro Pure Honey has won the WOMED Award South 2022. The WOMED Award is a prize for the entrepreneur of the year, which is awarded annually by Markant vzw and UNIZO. In collaboration with Trias, Markant, the Belgium network organisation selects a female entrepreneur and awards her with the WOMED Award South. This year, the WOMED Award South was hosted by Trias in Uganda. Operation in 14 countries, an international development organisation headquartered in Brussels working to help make the dreams of enterprising people all over the world come true. WOMED Award South intends…
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The Women Entrepreneurship for Africa (WE4A) program is kicking off with 100 women-led startups selected to join its high-impact program focused on startup growth for employment creation. The initiative focuses on empowering underserved communities in Sub-Saharan Africa comprising women, youth, and the informal sector. Participants will receive €10,000 in grant funding and will be given 3 months of technical support through a virtual acceleration program. WE4A project is an action jointly supported by the European Union (EU), the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), with implementation from…
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After what has been an illustrious career spanning 25 years, Harriet Nabakooza Musoke is retiring from a 08am-05pm routine, to spend more time with her family but also to see how else she can deploy her treasure trove of knowledge. “Now most of you may be asking what next? I am looking forward to a much-needed vacation time with family and friends. I need to settle in my daughter at the pre-college/university level. I plan to sleep, travel, pray, exercise, keep healthy, engage more in my Rotary opportunities and be the best companion/wife I can be to my husband,” Harriet…
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The Strathmore University Business School has trained 86 women running small businesses in the Kibera slums in Nairobi on financial literacy and business management. For these women, their small businesses are their primary source of livelihood and survival. The training came as a response to the various challenges that women-led businesses in the informal sector face. Some of these challenges include the lack of proper business structures and a lack of business management skills that can propel these businesses to scale up. As one participant aptly put it, when asked if they usually saved any income; “Our stock ends up…
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