Category: Tech

MTN’s Fintech business has announced on November 16 the appointment of Patrick Attoungbre as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of MTN Fintech Côte d’Ivoire, effective November 2023. He takes the helm from Acting CEO, Gedeon Agbe, who, MTN stated, demonstrated exceptional leadership in guiding the team during the transition period from July to October 2023. […]

To support the accelerated execution of his Ambition 2025 strategy, MTN Group has announced, on June 30, the appointment of new CEOs for operations in Cameroon, Rwanda and Uganda effective 1 September 2022. MTN also announces the creation of a new senior MTN Group post: that of Operations Executive for Liberia, Guinea-Conakry, Guinea-Bissau, and Congo-Brazzaville […]

The Kenyan, who took up her position in early June, will oversee more than 20 markets covered by Oxfam International. Prior to her appointment, Grace Murugi was head of digital at Safaricom, Kenya’s largest telecommunications company and one of the largest in East Africa. In this role, she was responsible for developing high quality digital […]

Former Managing Director of Microsoft Kenya, and now based in Ireland, she has been appointed in May 2022. In line with itscommitment to authenticity, Meta does not allow people to misrepresent themselves, use fake accounts, artificially boost the popularity of content or engage in behaviours designed to enable other violations under its Community Standards. The […]

African Development Centre (ADC), Microsoft’s premier engineering hub, has announced, on Thursday June 2, the appointment of Catherine Muraga as its Managing Director effective 01 June 2022. Launched in May 2019 in Nairobi , the Africa Development Center (ADC) is Microsoft’s first ever engineering office in Africa. The centre aims to recruit 500 engineers by […]

MTN Group announced, on May 30, the appointment of Tumi Chamayou as Group Executive:  Enterprise Business Unit (GEBU), effective 1 June 2022. Tumi Chamayou joined the GEBU team in 2018, as General Manager for Large Enterprise Sales, and has been Acting Executive for the function since July 2020, until now. During this time, said MTN, […]

As CTO, the Kenyan Jack Ngare joins the office of the chief technology officer (CTO) of Google cloud. Google recently announced the upcoming opening in Nairobi of its first product development center in Africa. Since August 2019, Jack Ngare was the general manager of Microsoft Africa Development Centre (ADC), Microsoft’s first technology innovation center in […]

Larbi Alaoui Belrhiti has been promoted CEO Of Jumia Express Logistics and will now oversee Jumia’s operations in Africa. Jumia, it is explained, has built over 10 years a unique logistics platform in Africa, offering efficient delivery services thanks to its “in-house” technology, its 700 partners and its strong physical presence (nearly 3,000 points of […]

The Forbes 2021 Next 1000 list, presented by Square, highlights 1,000 entrepreneurs announced each quarter in 250-person increments. Janice Omadeke,34, is featured on the Forbes 250 list of entrepreneurs released in December 2021.These inspiring small business leaders, many from diverse and underrepresented communities, says Forbes magazine, are redefining the American dream and what it means […]

Launched in 2013 by JFD (Digital Women’s Day), the “Margaret’s Award”, it is explained, rewards each year women entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs in Europe and Africa, whose projects and innovations respond to the major challenges of our society. The prize is named after Margaret Hamilton, director of the software engineering division that developed the embedded software […]

The position of Senior Vice President of Technology and Society at Google is a newly-created position. American citizen and native of Zimbabwe, James Manyika will report directly to the CEO of Alphabet, Sundar Pichai. James Manyika’s role works on “shaping and sharing” the company’s view on the way tech affects society, the economy and the […]