Tanzania is strategically located within East Africa, with Dar es Salaam port serving as a gateway for 8 landlocked countries. By landmass, Tanzania is one of the largest countries in Africa, (13th), making it larger than nearby Kenya by both size and population. It also boasts some of Africa’s most renowned tourist attractions – Serengeti, Mount Kilimanjaro, and the Indian Ocean coastline- making tourism big business for the nation and employing over half a million Tanzanians.
6th largest population on the continent (50.8 million)
Africa’s third largest producer of gold
Dar es Salaam port is the fourth largest port on Africa’s eastern seaboard
44 million hectares of arable fertile land
Recent discovery of 46.5 trillion cubic feet of offshore natural gas
Politically stable, with a national security score of 90% on the Ibrahim Index of African Governance
‘The Africa List events are a very useful opportunity to connect with other business leaders in Dar es Salaam who I wouldn’t normally come into contact with.’
ALAN MAYERS, CEO, MTANGA FOODS, TANZANIA
TANZANIA WORKING GROUP
Each local working group is selected from within The Africa List community based on their sector expertise and deep personal networks within each country. They are integral to the success of The Africa List and play a leading role in guiding the selection process of new members, helping to ensure that a diverse selection of the best companies and leaders are represented.
LEONARD MUSUSA
(CHAIR),
PRIVATE CONSULTANT
(CHAIR),
PRIVATE CONSULTANT
Leonard was Country Leader of PricewaterhouseCoopers in Tanzania for 14 years from 2000-2014. Between 2012 and 2014 he also served as Head of Risk and Quality in the East Africa Market Area of PwC covering Kenya, Mauritius, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia. He has several years of experience providing Assurance, Accounting and Consulting services to top tier companies in the country, including a power utility company, leading gold producer, leading telecommunication companies, top tier banks, insurance and beverage companies. He is currently a board member of the CEO Roundtable in Tanzania.
JENNIFER BASH,
FOUNDER & CEO
ALASKA TANZANIA
FOUNDER & CEO
ALASKA TANZANIA
Jennifer is an agripreneur and a marketing expert committed towards making agriculture production a sustainable and profitable business through empowering smallholder farmers by improving access to market information and adapting to global best practices of agricultural value chains. She holds a Bachelor Degree in International Marketing from Baruch College, in the City of New York, USA. She is the recipient of the 2016 Women’s Award of Excellence in the Agribusiness Sector (MALKIA WA NGUVU) and a Winner for East Africa Young Business Leader of the Year of the 2017 All Africa Business Leaders Awards (AABLA).
PERECE KIRIGITI,
HR DIRECTOR
VODACOM TANZANIA
HR DIRECTOR
VODACOM TANZANIA
Perece started her professional HR career working with Barclays Bank Tanzania and worked for the bank for many years in different HR management roles in Tanzania, UK, South Africa and Kenya. She has extensive experience in working within the Telecom industry having worked for Airtel in different countries for eight years and later joined Vodacom Tanzania. She has broad knowledge in strategic leadership, managing change programs and providing HR expertise in boards and management groups.
MANZI RWEGASIRA,
HEAD INVESTMENT BANKING
STANBIC BANK TANZANIA
HEAD INVESTMENT BANKING
STANBIC BANK TANZANIA
Manzi Rwegasira began his professional career as an investment banking analyst in the M&A department of Bank of America. He subsequently went on to work for Barclays in London doing M&A in the financial services sector. Before his current role as Head of Investment Banking at Stanbic Tanzania, he was the Senior Manager for Strategy and Special Projects at NMB. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Business Administration and a Master’s degree in Finance, both from the Rotterdam School of Management in The Netherlands.
THOMAS BISONGA,
HEAD CORPORATE AND
INVESTMENT BANKING,
STANBIC TANZANIA
HEAD CORPORATE AND
INVESTMENT BANKING,
STANBIC TANZANIA
Thomas has extensive financial services experience earned with Stanbic Bank in Sub-Sahara Africa, and North America. He joined the bank in 2003 as Head of Treasury Sales, then rose through the Global Sales division where in addition to his role as Head of Corporate and Investment Banking at Stanbic Tanzania, he serves as Director for Africa Global Market Sales, targeting American entities with business interests in Africa, and matching them to Standard Bank’s franchises and capabilities on, and beyond the African Continent.
MELKIORY NGIDO,
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR,
DELOITTE
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR,
DELOITTE
Melkiory Ngido is an Associate Director and leader of Strategy and Operations service line at Deloitte Consulting Ltd, based in Dar es salaam. He has over 14 years’ experience working in the fields of operations optimization, finance transformation, financial and project Management, Strategy Development, and Industry Competitiveness analysis. Melkiory has deep experience in project design and set-up, and project implementation. He is Consumer and Industrial Product Industry leader for Deloitte East Africa and Finance Transformation service Leader for Deloitte in Tanzania.
IRENE KIWIA,
CEO,
FRONTLINE MANAGEMENT
CEO,
FRONTLINE MANAGEMENT
Irene Kiwia is an accomplished entrepreneur, consultant and humanitarian whose career spans over 18 years in Business Management, Media, Public Relations, Communications, Women and Youth Empowerment. She is the Founder and CEO of Frontline Management, a management
firm that includes Frontline Porter Novelli, a PR and communication division that is a global partner of Porter Novelli the US-based PR leader owned by the communication conglomerate OMNICOM, and has a presence in over 85 countries. She also founded the Tanzania Women of Achievement (TWA) non profit that empowers women and girls through social and economic transformation.
firm that includes Frontline Porter Novelli, a PR and communication division that is a global partner of Porter Novelli the US-based PR leader owned by the communication conglomerate OMNICOM, and has a presence in over 85 countries. She also founded the Tanzania Women of Achievement (TWA) non profit that empowers women and girls through social and economic transformation.
ABRAHAM OKORE,
MANAGING DIRECTOR,
PACIFIC DIAGNOSTICS LTD
MANAGING DIRECTOR,
PACIFIC DIAGNOSTICS LTD
Abraham Okore is the Managing Director of Pacific Diagnostics Ltd. Over a decade he has lead the company through rapid growth with a focus on after-sales servicing, positioning Pacific as the largest diagnostics distributor in Tanzania. In recent years he has overseen Pacific’s expansion across East and West Africa. Mr. Okore is interested in developing an affordable healthcare system and financing environment that utilizes public-private partnerships for development. He also serves as CEO of Pyramid Pharma Ltd. and volunteers on the Board of Directors for Nafasi Art Space in Dar es Salaam. Prior to Pyramid, Mr. Okore served as the COO for GM Pharmacy Tanzania.
