Ayisi Makatiani is the Managing Partner and CEO of Fanisi Capital Ltd., which manages the Fanisi Venture Capital Fund for investing in East Africa (Kenya,Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda). Makatiani holds a Bachelors degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a Minor in Economics with a thesis done at the Sloan [...]
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Strive Masiyiwa is a Zimbabwean businessman, founder, Chairman and CEO of Econet Wireless - a diversified international telecommunications group based in South Africa with operations on three continents.
A devout Christian noted for his determination and social conscience, Masiyiwa was called a hero for helping millions of Africans gain access to the modern world through affordable [...]
Patrick Awuah is a director, founder and engineer. A product of Achimota Secondary School, he left Ghana in 1985 to attend Swarthmore College and graduated with an engineering degree in 1990. He later joined the Microsoft Corporation working as an engineer and program manager, where he became a millionaire before he was 30. [...]
Joshua Wanyama is the co-founder and CEO of Pamoja Media. Pamoja Media is Africa’s first online advertising network selling banner and rich-media advertising to marketers seeking to reach Africans worldwide. In this position Wanyama has overall responsibility for leading the company. He oversees day to day operations and growth of Pamoja Media including relationships [...]
DR. EMMANUEL O EGBOGAH, P.Eng. OON
Dr. Emmanuel Egbogah has over 35 years of diversified geological and petroleum engineering experience in consulting, teaching, research & development, and project planning, implementation and management in Canada, The United States, Europe, Africa, The Middle East and the Asia Pacific region.
He is an internationally recognized authority in the fields of petroleum policy and strategy, improved/enhanced [...]
Sheraan Amod is a 24 year old techno-marketer entrepreneur and social networking evangelist. He is the co-founder and CEO of Personera, a web to print technology startup that launched internationally from the Silicon Cape in November 2009, after acquiring investment and winning the FNB Enablis Business Launchpad- the biggest small business competition in Africa.
Sheraan has [...]
Michael Joseph is CEO of the most profitable publicly traded company in East Africa, Safaricom Limited. He has held this portfolio since July 2000 when the company was re-launched as a joint-venture with Telkom Kenya. He has extensive international experience in the implementation and operation of large wireless and wire-line networks.
Since the re-launch of [...]
Biodun Shobanjo is perhaps known to Africans outside of Nigeria more for his role as the Donald Trump of The Apprentice - Africa television show. While in Nigeria, he maintains a reputation as a communications and advertising guru that rose through the corporate ranks quickly eventually starting his own successful Ad agency.
He started his communications career with the [...]
Mo Ibrahim is a fixture in the early international mobile telecommunications industry and is the founder of one of Africa’s most successful mobile telecom companies, Celtel International (Zain).
Founded in 1998, Celtel International was one of the first pan African providers to bring the benefits of mobile communications to millions of people across the African continent. [...]
Patrice Motsepe is South Africa’s first black billionaire and has been on Forbes Annual Billionaire list for the last two years. He is the Executive Chairman of African Rainbow Minerals Ltd. ( ARM), a mining and minerals company, based in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is also the Chairman of Harmony and the Deputy [...]
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