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The MTN MoMo Exco team,(clockwise from the top): Richard Yego, Managing Director; Jemima Kariuki, Chief Products Officer; Stephen Mutana, Chief of Strategy and Stakeholder Management; Sarah Bateta Okwi, Chief Financial Officer; Albert Gitta, Chief of Information Technology; Alex Wekoye, Chief Commercial Officer; Israel Mayengo, Head of Risk and Compliance; Stephen Wakhula, Head Internal Audit; William Senfuma, Head of Business Intelligence; Peter Ochen, General Manager, Financial Operations; Joachim Masagazi, Head of Human Resources and Sheila Kawooya, Head of Corporate Services.

PROFILES⎮ Meet MTN MoMo’s fluent-in-fintech dozen leading the search for Mo shared growth

Of this, MTN Mobile Money (U) Limited (MTN MoMo) the fintech subsidiary of MTN Uganda, Uganda’s largest telco commanded a lofty market share of 12.36 million active customers (56% market share). MTN
Left-Right: MTN MoMo senior executives⏤ Richard Yego, the Managing Director; Jemima Kariuki-Njuguna, the Chief Product Officer; Stephen Mutana, the Chief of Strategy and Stakeholder Management; Sarah Bateta Okwi, the Chief Financial Officer and Alex Wekoye, the Chief Commercial Officer.

3 years after being spun off the parent company, MTN Mobile Money is emerging into Uganda’s largest fintech

Ahead of the fintech’s 3rd anniversary, CEO East Africa Magazine’s Executive Editor, Muhereza Kyamutetera, spoke to Richard Yego as well as Jemima Kariuki-Njuguna, the Chief Product Officer; Stephen Mutana, the Chief of
Left-Right: MTN Uganda CFO, Andrew Bugembe; Sylvia Mulinge, the CEO and Richard Yego the Managing Director & CEO at MTN Mobile Money Uganda Ltd at a press conference to release the telco's results last week.

Taking a few bets on a few big things⏤ How Sylvia Mulinge got MTN back on an accelerated growth path

On Tuesday 4th October 2022 in a press conference to introduce Sylvia Mulinge, as MTN Uganda’s new Chief Executive Officer, Charles Mbiire, the MTN Uganda Board Chairman and 3rd largest shareholder assured
Left-Right: Bank of Uganda Deputy Governor, Dr. Michael Atingi-Ego; PostBank Managing Director, Kakeeto Julius and PostBank Chief Executive Director and Chief Digital Financial Services Officer, Andrew Kabeera at the November 2023 launch of Wendi. Wendi has been hailed as a key enabler of financial inclusion.

PostBank’s Wendi hits UGX200 bn in payments to over 200,000 PDM beneficiaries

In just four months after its launch, PostBank Uganda’s digital wallet, Wendi has hit a record UGX200 billion in payments to over 200,000 Parish Development Model (PDM) beneficiaries countrywide. According to statistics
February 24, 2024
CLOCKWISE FROM THE TOP: Anthony Kituuka, Managing Director, Equity Bank Uganda; Shakira Shamim Mujuni, CEO, CIC Insurance; Richard Yego, Chief Executive Officer, MTN Mobile Money, Dorothy Kabagambe Ssemanda, CEO, ATC Uganda; Mark Muyobo, Managing Director/CEO, NCBA Bank Uganda; Grace Muliisa, Managing Director, Ecobank Uganda; Ruth Namuli, CEO, Sanlam General Insurance; Spera Atuhairwe, Country Director, BRAC International; Phillip Besiimire, Managing Director, Vodacom Tanzania Plc; Dr. Bridget Ssamula, CEO, The Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA); Claver Serumaga, Managing Director/ CEO, NCBA Bank Tanzania and Michael Magambo, CEO, Vodacom Tower Co.

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

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 well as
Richard, becomes MTN Mobile Money Uganda’s first Managing Director, since the MTN Uganda wholly-owned digital financial services company was spun off its mother company. He is no stranger to mobile money services- as he holds a combined 16+ years of experience in banking and digital financial services.

EXCLUSIVE: MTN taps Richard Yego as its first Managing Director, of the now independent MTN Mobile Money unit

MTN Mobile Money Uganda Limited, the wholly owned mobile money subsidiary of MTN Uganda, has picked Richard Yego as its first substantive Managing Director, CEO East Africa Magazine can exclusively reveal. According
Richard Yego, the Agent Banking Company of Uganda Limited (ABC) Chief Executive Officer, since June 2019. He first joined the company as the Commercial Director in February 2018. He wields over 14 years experience in Banking and Digital Financial Services that among others includes, being the Airtel Money Director in Uganda

Q&A: 2 years, 7,600 agents and over UGX2.5 trillion transacted, agent banking is unstoppable; it is the future of banking

First of all, tell us about the Agent Banking Company of Uganda Limited- who owns it and how is it run? Agent Banking Company of Uganda Limited (ABC) was incorporated in July
July 29, 2020

 

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