New Appointments
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WayaWaya Appoints Banking Veteran Raj Singh to Board to Drive Expansion
Nairobi-based fintech WayaWaya has appointed veteran banking executive Raj Singh as Non-Executive Director and Adviser to the Board as it…
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Stanbic Turns to Safaricom’s Michael Mutiga as Banks Look Beyond Traditional Banking Talent
Stanbic Bank Kenya has appointed Safaricom Chief Business Development and Strategy Officer Michael Mutiga as its next Chief Executive Officer,…
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Ashish Malhotra Exits Airtel Kenya as Djibril Tobe Takes Over as MD
Airtel Kenya has appointed Djibril Tobe as Managing Director of Airtel Kenya, succeeding Ashish Malhotra, who departs after four years…
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Spiro Appoints Former Indofast Energy Boss Anant Badjatya as Group CEO
Spiro, a leading African electric mobility company, has appointed former Indofast Energy CEO Anant Badjatya as its new Group Chief…
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Cross Switch Appoints Gillian Koinange as Head of Business Development, East Africa
Payments technology company Cross Switch has announced the appointment of Gillian Koinange as Head of Business Development, East Africa. The company…
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Paratus Group Appoints New GM to Lead FAST Congo
FAST Congo, the wholesale connectivity joint venture between the Paratus Group and Global Broadband Solutions (GBS) operating in the Democratic…
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Ericsson Appoints Siseko Ngxola as Country Head of South Africa
Ericsson has announced the appointment of Siseko Ngxola as Head of Ericsson South Africa. According to the company, the appointment…
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Cellulant Appoints Darren Makarem as CFO to Drive African Payments Expansion
African payments technology company Cellulant has named Darren Makarem as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO), bolstering its executive bench…
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AVEVA Appoints Khaled Salah as VP for Africa in Regional Growth Push
Industrial software company AVEVA has appointed Khaled Salah as Vice President of Africa, tasking him with accelerating the company’s growth…
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Wingu Africa Appoints Prasad Acharya as Tanzania Sales Director to Drive Regional Expansion
Wingu Africa, East Africa’s leading carrier-neutral data centre operator, has named Prasad Acharya as Director of Sales for Tanzania. He…
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M-TIBA Parent CarePay Group Announces Leadership Changes
CarePay Group, the parent company of the pioneering health-tech platform M-TIBA, has announced a strategic leadership transition. Moses G. Kuria…
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ICT Authority Appoints Jessy Kiveu Maruti as New CEO
The ICT Authority BoarD has announced the appointment of Jessy Kiveu Maruti as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The appointment,…
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Cellulant Appoints Michael Muriuki as CPTO to Drive Product-Led Scale
Cellulant, the payments company, has announced the appointment of Michael Muriuki as its Chief Product & Technology Officer (CPTO). The…
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Bboxx Appoints New Managing Director for Nigeria
Bboxx, a data-driven platform providing essential services across Africa, has entered a new growth phase in Nigeria with the appointment…
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Paymentology Appoints Kesheni Moodley as Regional Director for Africa
Paymentology, the world’s leading global issuer-processor, has announced the appointment of Kesheni Moodley as its new Regional Director for Africa.…
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Safaricom Appoints Sylvia Anampiu to Lead Fixed Business
Safaricom has announced the appointment of Sylvia Anampiu as the Director of Fixed Business, signaling a major strategic shift as…
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Dan Kwach joins Madagascar based STELLARIX as Deputy CEO
In a significant move that signals a strategic shift in the African data center landscape, veteran technology leader Dan Kwach…
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Neeraj Pradhan appointed as CEO of Liquid Intelligent Technologies Kenya
Liquid Intelligent Technologies (Liquid), a business of Cassava Technologies, has officially appointed Neeraj Pradhan as the Chief Executive Officer of…
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Safaricom Welcomes Back Stephen Chege as Group Chief External Affairs Officer
Kenya’s leading telco, Safaricom PLC on Friday announced the return of Stephen Chege, who rejoins the company as the Group…
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Absa Bank Kenya Appoints Former CBK Chief Mohammed Nyaoga as New Chairman
Absa Bank Kenya has tapped former Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) chairman Mohammed Nyaoga as its new board chair, effective…
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CMC Networks appoints Ex-Google Exec Mahesh Jaishankar as Managing Director
CMC Networks, Africa’s leading networking provider and a subsidiary of center3, has named Mahesh Jaishankar as its new Managing Director. Jaishankar will…
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NTT DATA Names Jafar Kuruniyan as New CFO for Middle East and Africa
NTT DATA has announced the appointment of Jafar Kuruniyan as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for its Middle East and Africa…
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Bboxx Appoints Justus Mucyo as Chief Operating Officer to Drive Growth Across Africa
Bboxx, an Africa pay-as-you-go off-grid solar and energy-as-a-service company, has appointed Justus Mucyo as its new Chief Operating Officer (COO).…
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Yellow Card Appoints Gillian Darko as VP of Strategy
Yellow Card has announced the appointment of Gillian Darko as its new Vice President of Strategy, joining the executive team…
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Ben Roberts Joins UNICEF as Strategic Advisor on Subsea Cable Connectivity
Ben Roberts, a prominent figure in Africa’s ICT and telecommunications sector, has been appointed as a Strategic Advisor on Subsea…
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NTT DATA Names Asokan Moodley Head of GenAI and Industry Advisory for MEA
NTT DATA today announced the appointment of Asokan Moodley as Head of GenAI and Industry Advisory for Middle East and…
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SAP Appoints Shiraz Khota as Managing Director for Emerging Africa
SAP has announced the appointment of Shiraz Khota as Managing Director for Emerging Africa. Khota, an industry veteran with 25…
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Claire Munene Rejoins Ajua as Chief Experience Officer
Ajua, Africa’s leading customer experience (CX) intelligence platform, on Thursday announced the appointment of Claire Munene as its new Chief…
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Sophos Appoints Chris Bell to Lead Global Channel Strategy
Cybersecurity firm Sophos has named Chris Bell as Senior Vice President of Global Channel, Alliances and Corporate Development. In his…
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Australia’s Fulgo Mobile Expands into Kenya, Appoints New Country Manager
Fulgo Mobile, an Australian-owned and operated mobile device company, has expanded to Kenya. As part of its expansion, the company…
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Visa Picks New Country Manager for Kenya, South Sudan and Somalia
Visa has appointed John Njoroge as its new Country Manager and Senior Business Development Leader for Kenya, South Sudan, and…
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Epson Announces New President & CEO
Epson a global technology company, has appointed Junkichi Yoshida as its new President and Chief Executive Officer, effective April 1.…
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Visa Appoints Michael Berner as Head of Southern and East Africa
Visa has announced that Michael Berner will assume the role of Head of Southern and East Africa (SEA), effective immediately.…
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LG Announces its New President for East Africa
LG Electronics (LG) on Monday announced Donghun Lee as its new President for East Africa (EA), effective immediately. He replaces…
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CMC Networks Appoints Paolo Gambini as Chief Revenue Officer
CMC Networks has appointed Paolo Gambini as its new Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Gambini joins CMC Networks from his prior…
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Wasoko and MaxAB Tap Cruise CTO to Lead AI Initiatives
Wasoko and MaxAB, Africa’s largest B2B network of informal retailers, has announced the appointment of Mo Elshenawy as an Independent…
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Epson Promotes Four Women to Senior Leadership in META-CW Asia Region
Epson Middle East FZCO [EME] has announced the promotion of four female leaders to senior management roles within its META-CW…
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New Leadership Elected for Kenya’s Electric Mobility Sub-Sector
The Electric Mobility Sub-Sector within the Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM) has elected Roam’s head of strategy and innovation Hans…
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Equity Bank Kenya appoints Moses Okoth Nyabanda as Acting MD
Equity Group announced on Friday that Mr. Moses Okoth Nyabanda, its Chief Finance & Strategy Execution Officer, has been appointed…
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Fintech firm VertoFX taps ex-JumiaPay MD as Nigeria Country Manager
VertoFX has announced the appointment of Dr. Austin Okpagu as its first Country Manager for Nigeria. The fintech firm says…
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Teresa Anania Joins Sophos as Chief Customer Officer
Sophos has announced that Teresa Anania has joined the company as Chief Customer Officer (CCO). Sophos said in a statement…
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Glovo Appoints Daphne Kabeberi as Impact and Sustainability Lead for Africa
Glovo has announced the appointment of Daphne Kabeberi as the Impact and Sustainability Lead for Africa. In her new role,…
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NTT Data taps ex-visa director as head of marketing and demand generation
NTT DATA has announced the appointment of Thembeka Ngugi as the company’s Head of Marketing and Demand Generation for NTT…
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Joe Levy Appointed CEO of Sophos
Sophos has today announced the appointment of Joe Levy as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company. Levy has…
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Jumia appoints East Africa regional CEO
E-commerce platform Jumia today announced the appointment of Vinod Goel, as Regional CEO East Africa. Vinod previously served as the…
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Twiga Foods appoints new CEO
Twiga Foods on Tuesday announced the appointment of Charles Ballard as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Charles takes over…
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Cellulant announces new executives appointments
African payments firm Cellulant has announced the appointment of several leading executives to its management team. The company said in…
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Glovo Appoints Ex-Jumia Food Director as Chief Commercial Officer for Kenya
Glovo has announced the appointment of Sonali Patel Visram as its new Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) for Kenya. Sonali joins…
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Visa appoints new General Manager for East Africa
Digital payments leader Visa has appointed Chad Pollock as Cluster Country Manager and Vice President for East Africa. Chad is…
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Showmax appoints Emma Gichonge as General Manager in East Africa
African streaming platform Showmax has appointed Emma Gichonge as its first-ever General Manager of Operations for East Africa. Gichonge is…
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Reshma Naik joins Nutanix as Emerging Markets Director of Systems Engineering
Nutanix, a leader in hybrid multicloud computing has appointed IT industry veteran Reshma Naik as its Director of Systems Engineering, Emerging…
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Payments firm MDP names Frank Molla as Managing Director for Africa Operations
Issuing and payment processing firm in the Middle East and Africa MDP, has appointed Frank Molla as Managing Director for…
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Infopercept Appoints Preethkaran J as Chief Revenue Officer
Infopercept Consulting, a global platform-led managed security services company has appointed Preethkaran as Chief Revenue Officer. With over 20 years…
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Epson Europe appoints Boris Manev as new Corporate Sustainability Director
Epson Europe has appointed Boris Manev as its new Corporate Sustainability Director. His appointment comes as the organisation looks to…
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Bolt Appoints Caroline Wanjihia as Regional Director for Africa
Bolt has today announced the appointment of Ms Caroline Wanjihia as Regional Director for its Ridehailing Operations in Africa and…
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Sudhir Juggernath appointed CEO of TelCables South Africa
Angola Cables has announced the appointment of Sudhir Juggernath as CEO of TelCables South Africa. Sudhir will be responsible for…
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Google Appoints Alex Okosi as Managing Director for Africa
Google has appointed its current Managing Director for YouTube in EMEA Emerging Markets Alex Okosi as Managing Director for Google…
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Eric Jackson takes over as new Hisa CEO
Kenyan fintech Hisa has announced the appointment of Eric Jackson as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Jackson takes over from…
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Ad Dynamo by Aleph appoints José Gonsalves as managing director for East Africa.
Ad Dynamo by Aleph has today announced the appointment of José Gonsalves as managing director for East Africa. Gonsalves will…
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Africa-focused pre-seed investment program Madica announces new leadership appointments
Madica, an Africa-focused investment program dedicated to pre-seed stage startups in Africa, has announced two new leadership appointments. The Flourish…
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SAP appoints Kholiwe Makhohliso new MD for Southern Africa
SAP has today announced the appointment of seasoned technology executive, Kholiwe Makhohliso, as its new Managing Director for Southern Africa. Makhohliso…
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Safaricom picks new CEO for its Ethiopia business unit
Wim Vanhelleputte has been named the new CEO for Safaricom Ethiopia effective September 1. His appointment comes just a week…
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I&M Bank Rwanda announces new executive appointment
The Board of Directors of I&M Bank Rwanda Plc has announced the appointment of Mr. Benjamin Mutimura as the new…
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Jonathan Duncan Joins Vertiv Africa Engineering and Technical Team
Vertiv, the global provider of critical digital infrastructure and continuity solutions, has appointed Jonathan Duncan as application engineering and technical…
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Digital payments firm DPO Pay announces new leadership appointments
African digital payments company DPO Pay has announced the appointment of Isabella Marira as Group Head of Operations. The firm…
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Mest Africa picks Stanbic Bank Ghana’s Head of Engineering as its Portfolio Advisor
MEST Africa has announced the appointment of Eric Nsarkoh as a Portfolio Advisor, focused on technology product development. Eric joins…
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Lillian Barnard appointed President for Microsoft Africa
Microsoft on Tuesday announced the appointment of Lillian Barnard as President for Microsoft Africa. Bernard was previously the tech giant’s…
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YC-backed Curacel appoints Adam Jones to its advisory board
Curacel, a Nigerian YC-backed African insurance infrastructure startup has appointed Adam Jones to its advisory board to support ongoing growth across…
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Cybersecurity firm Sophos announces new leadership appointments
Sophos today announced the promotion of Joe Levy to president of the Sophos Technology Group (STG). The company has also…
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Vertiv appoints Wojtek Piorko new managing director for Africa
Vertiv on Thursday announced the appointment of Wojtek Piorko as its new managing director for Africa effective immediately. Before his…
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Brazilian fintech EBANX picks Ex-Chipper Cash VP as its new director for Africa
EBANK, the Brazilian fintech company which recently expanded into Africa has announced the appointment of Wiza Jalakasi as its new…
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Jumia Kenya appoints new CEO
Jumia on Wednesday announced the appointment of Charles Ballard as the new CEO of Jumia Kenya, effective from March. Charles takes…
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Alpheus Mangale takes over from Oliver Fortuin as new SEACOM Group CEO
SEACOM has announced that Alpheus Mangale is joining the company as the incoming Group CEO, effective 1 April 2023. Mangale…
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Fawzia Ali appointed new Safaricom Chief Consumer Business Officer
Safaricom has confirmed the appointment of Fawzia Ali as its new Chief Consumer Business Officer. Fawzia has been holding the…
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ALEX OWITI: Will Blockchain be the “Messiah” Cyber security Saviour?
Deloitte’s global blockchain and cyber security experts from around the globe in their 2017 report looked at blockchain technology security from…
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Cybersecurity firm Infopercept appoints Jitendra Bulani as CMO
Cybersecurity solutions and services company Infopercept Consulting has appointed Jitendra Bulani as Chief Marketing Officer. He joins the firm from…
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LG Announces New Managing Director for East Africa
LG Electronics has appointed Dong Won Lee as its new Regional Managing Director (MD) for East Africa (EA). He takes…
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Safaricom announces new appointments in latest leadership shake up
Just a few days after appointing Adil Arshed Khawaja as its new board chairman, telecommunications giant Safaricom has announced a…
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South African fintech Jumo appoints former ICT CS Joe Mucheru as president
JUMO, a South African fintech has appointed former ICT Cabinet secretary Joe Mucheru as the president. In his new role,…
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Bolt Picks New Regional Manager for East and Southern Africa
Bolt has appointed Takura Malaba as the new Regional Manager for East and Southern Africa, effective 1st January 2023. Takura takes over…
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Mikhail Marchenko: Major fintech trends that will affect online businesses in 2023
Digitalization and technological achievements, which have been observed in the African region for the past decade, have sped up the…
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Giordano Albertazzi takes over as new Vertiv CEO
Vertiv has announced that Giordano Albertazzi will be taking over as the company’s new CEO. The global provider of critical…
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Competition Authority of Kenya appoints Adano Wario acting Director General
The Competition Authority of Kenya (CAK) has appointed Adano Wario as acting Director General following the expiry of Wang’ombe Kariuki’s…
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Glovo appoints Caroline Mutuku Country Manager for Kenya
Caroline Mutuku is the new General Manager for Glovo Kenya. The multi-category platform announced her appointment on Wednesday. Mutuku joins…
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Gerard Allison Joins Sophos as Senior Vice President of Sales for EMEA
Sophos has announced that Gerard Allison has joined the firm as Senior Vice President of Sales for Europe, the Middle East…
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Businesswoman Mary Wambui appointed as Communications Authority chair
Mary Wambui Mungai has been appointed the new board chair of the Communications Authority of Kenya (CK) effective December 2,…
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Anti-fraud & Risk Management Firm JuicyScore appoints Chris Akolo Regional Business Development Director for Kenya
After announcing its entry into the Kenyan market recently, JuicyScore has now appointed Chris Akolo as its Regional Business Development…
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Judy Waruiru appointed as Managing Director for digital payments firm DPO Africa
African digital payments company DPO has announced the appointment of Judy Waruiru as Managing Director for Africa effective in January…
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Flutterwave Appoints Former JP Morgan Chase Executive as Senior Advisor
Nigerian money transfer company Flutterwave has appointed Marshall Lux as a senior advisor. Marshall is a former Chief Risk Officer…
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Copia Global announces new executive regional appointments
Last-mile delivery and eCommerce platform Copia Global has announced new appointments in its leadership as it focuses on regional growth…
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Linda Ndung’u is the New Country Manager for Bolt Kenya
Ride-hailing company Bolt has appointed Linda Ndungu as its new country manager, charged with the responsibility of scaling the company’s…
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Fallohide Africa: Re-writing Kenya’s Story through Virtual Reality
Kenya is putting its foot forward in the age of Immersive technologies, including AR (Augmented Reality) and VR (Virtual Reality).…
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Dr. Joyce Cacho Joins Sistema.bio as New Board Chair
Sistema.bio has announced Dr. Joyce Cacho as its newest board member, and incoming board chair, effective January 2023. Following her…
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TechPR Nigeria appoints Felicia Ochelle as new CEO, announces pan-African expansion
TechPR Nigeria, a Public Relations and Communications firm, has announced the appointment of Felicia Omari Ochelle as the new Chief Executive Officer…
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Jaime Pinto appointed Software Group’s Chief Commercial Officer for Africa
Software Group has announced the appointment of Jaime Pinto as the Chief Commercial Officer for the Africa region. Jaime brings…
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Kunle Awosika takes up new role at Microsoft’s Africa Transformation Office
Microsoft has appointed Kunle Awosika to the position of Managing Director for the Africa Transformation Office (ATO). Kunle takes over…
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AT&T Senior Director Cynthia Karuri-Kropac joins Safaricom as new enterprise manager
Safaricom on Wednesday announced the appointment of Cynthia Karuri-Kropac as its Chief Enterprise Business Officer effective 1st September 2022. Cynthia…
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Flutterwave’s New Chief People and Culture Officer Mansi Babyloni Empowers Young Africans with Tech Skills
Nigerian fintech company, Flutterwave, has appointed Mansi Babyloni as the new Chief People and Culture Officer. This was contained in…
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Microsoft Appoints Phyllis Migwi New Kenya Country Manager
It has been a couple of months since Kendi Ntwiga who headed Microsoft as Kenya’s country manager left for Meta,…
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Nigerian Startup Klasha Appoints Ayman Jawhar as New Chief Product Officer
Lagos and San Francisco-based Klasha has appointed Ayman Jawhar as its new Chief Product Officer. Ayman will be based in the United…
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Jumia Kenya CEO Betty Mwangi leaves the company after 9 months
Jumia Kenya CEO Betty Mwangi is leaving the e-commerce firm. Jumia in a statement today says Betty is leaving to…
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