Dr Nataliey Bitature named among Hult International Business School’s 10 notable alumni

Dr Nataliey Bitature, the Chief of Staff at Simba Group, has been named amongst this year’s Hult International Business School’s top 10 notable alumni.

The out-of-United Kingdom Hult International Business School is a private business school with campuses in Cambridge, London, San Francisco, Dubai, New York City, and Shanghai. It has produced over 23,000 alumni in more than 170 countries and is ranked as the 12th best MBA for international students by the Financial Times in 2021.

The 10 Famous Hult Grads list is made up of famous techpreneurs, global policymakers, and the rich list, among others, includes former South African President Thabo Mbeki; Dominican President, Luis Abinader; Mario Almondo, Former COO / Industrial Director at Ferrari; Htin Kyaw, 9th president of Myanmar and Oba Otudeko, the founder of Nigeria’s Honeywell Group. Techpreneur Jennifer Arcuri, Barbados’ youngest female ambassador to Brazil Tonika Sealy-Thompson and Shaun Gregory, the Former CEO of Exterion Media and current CEO of Iyuno Media Group are also on the list.

Since graduating from Hult International Business School, Nataliey has worked at Simba Group- a hospitality, media/communications, agriculture, energy and real estate conglomerate, founded by billionaire entrepreneur, Patrick Bitature.

She has since risen to become Chief of Staff and Managing Director of the Protea Hotel. She is also director of The Bitature Foundation, the charitable arm of the Group.

An entrepreneur in her own right. She is the founder of Musana Carts, a social start-up providing solar-powered vending carts to micro-entrepreneurs in Kampala, Uganda. The World Economic Foundation named her as one of the Top Five African Innovators in 2016, the year that she graduated from Hult. She was ranked amongst Forbes’ top young entrepreneurs (‘30 under 30’) list two years later.

Nataliey was in 2020 awarded an honorary doctorate by Hult University for her “outstanding career and commitment to supporting women in business” a trait that the university said, made her “inspiring entrepreneur and worthy role model for students.”