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Kyndryl Names New Managing Director for Africa
Kyndryl, one of the world’s largest IT infrastructure service providers, has today announced the appointment of Andreas Beck as the company’s Managing Director in the Middle East and Africa, with predecessor Vickram Nagi taking on a new role as Vice…
Nigeria’s Flutterwave Appoints New CFO
Flutterwave, a Nigeria-based African payments technology company, today announced the appointment of Oneal Bhambani as its new chief financial officer. He joins the company from American Express and Kabbage, where he managed fintech businesses operating at scale and helped lead…
MTN Group Appoints New Chief Risk Officer of Fintech
MTN Group has announced the appointment of Riaan Wessels as Chief Risk Officer of Fintech with effect from 1 July 2022. Riaan has 13 years of experience at MTN. He first joined the company in 2004, as GM of Business…
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West Africa’s Tizeti Names New Board Chairman
Tizeti Network Limited, a West African solar-based internet service provider has today, announced the appointment of Emmanuel Ikazoboh as its Board Chairman. Emmanuel Ikazoboh is the immediate former Group Chairman of Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI), Chairman of ARM Pensions Managers…
SA Robotics Researcher Selected for Prestigious International Scholarship
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics researcher, Professor Benjamin Rosman, is one of 18 early-career researchers in the world to be selected for the prestigious CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar programme for 2022-2024. Chosen for their outstanding early-career research in diverse fields,…
Microsoft Appoints New MD for Innovation Hub in Kenya
Microsoft African Development Centre (ADC) has announced Catherine Muraga as the new MD to lead 450 full-time employees working in areas such as software engineering, machine learning, data science, market research, and infrastructure. Muraga will be replacing Jack Ngare, who…
MTN Appoints New Executive for BankTech
The MTN Group has announced the appointment of Andrew Goodrich as Executive for Banktech in our Group Fintech team, which became effective as of 1 June 2022. Andrew joined MTN in 2019 as a GM for Banktech & Beyond Payments…
Sheryl Sandberg is Stepping Down as Meta COO
Sheryl Sandberg is stepping down as COO, one of the highest-ranking executives of Meta, after 14 years of having worked with the company. According to The Verge, she will retain her seat on Meta’s board. Mark Zuckerberg reportedly has no…
Dimension Data Appoints New CEO for Africa
Dimension Data, one of the leading technology service provider in MEA, announced the appointment of Alan Turnley-Jones as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Dimension Data Middle East and Africa (MEA), effective from Wednesday, 1 June 2022. Turnley-Jones joined Dimension Data…
MTN Appoints New Group Executive for Enterprise Business Unit
MTN Group announced the appointment of Tumi Chamayou as Group Executive: Enterprise Business Unit (GEBU), which takes effect from 1 June 2022. Tumi joined the GEBU team in 2018, as General Manager for Large Enterprise Sales, and has been Acting…
Orange Appoints New Leaders for Africa
France’s Orange Group yesterday announced the appointment of new leaders across its B2B Africa and Middle East units in order to refocus and capitalise on the regions which have been seeing growth and spurred positive financials for the Group over…
Mustek Announces New Acting CEO
JSE-listed technology company Mustek has announced the appointment of MD Hein Engelbrecht as interim CEO. The company’s board made the announcement a week after the sudden passing of Mustek founder and CEO David Kan. Kan, 62, passed away unexpectedly last…
TymeBank Announces Coen Jonker as the Group’s CEO in SA
Tyme Group, which is one of the world’s fastest-growing digital banking groups, has announced a series of leadership changes including appointing Coen Jonker as TymeBank CEO in South Africa as it embarks on the next chapter of its growth strategy.…
Safaricom Hires Managing Director of Citibank
Safaricom, a Kenyan telecommunications service provider, has hired the managing director of Citibank to be in charge of strategy and acquisitions. The telco is currently seeking regulatory approvals to launch insurance, unit trust, and savings products in an endeavour to…
Gijima Appoints New Group Managing Executive
Gijima, a South African Information and Communications Technology (ICT) company has announced the appointment of Hamilton Ratshefola as its new Group Managing Executive (GME) whilst Maphum Nxumalo, the previous GME, who has been with the company for 8 years, leaves…
Google Appoints Former Microsoft Nairobi Boss
Google has appointed former head of the Microsoft Africa Development Centre (ADC) Jack Ngare as the new technical director in the Office of the Chief Technology Officer (CTO). “Google Cloud’s Office of the CTO not only helps our customers create…
