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    A photo collage of Charles Mbire, Wasswa Birigwa, Aimable Mpore, Noel Meier, Hans Paulsen, Susan Nsibirwa, Yesse Oenga, Phillip Besiimire, Cesear Mloka, Sheila Kangwagye, Justina Ntabgoba, Rita Okuthe, Erik van Veen, Isaac Nsereko, and Aggrey Kagonyera. These were the men and women who stood on the frontline to set the ball rolling to build the shape of the telecom sector today.

    Mobile phone @30: The Telecom Legends That Shaped What is Today Uganda’s Most Profitable Sector

    CEO East Africa MagazineBusiness & MarketsExecutive ProfilesNews & AnalysisThe Big StoryJune 12, 2025June 12, 2025

    By 2005, Uganda’s telecom sector had firmly matured. With a compound annual growth rate of above 15%, it had set the stage rolling to overtake banking as one of the…

    The rise of the Ugandan CEO – why more Ugandans are being trusted to run blue chip companies at home and abroad 

    Muhereza KyamuteteraBusiness & MarketsC-Suite LeadershipNews & AnalysisThe Big StoryThe Uganda 300 IndexFebruary 2, 2023February 2, 2023

    The year 2022 was a great year for the Ugandan Executive. More than 10 Ugandans rose to become Chief Executives of some of Uganda’s largest and most influential companies, as…

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