ZIMBABWEAN-born MTN Group president and chief executive Ralph Mupita (pictured) has been named CEO of the year by the Africa CEO Forum at a glamorous ceremony in Kigali.
He won the award at the Africa CEO Forum 2024 in the Rwandan capital yesterday. Mupita, an engineer, corporate executive and businessman, leads Africa’s largest mobile network operator.
The 2024 edition of the Africa CEO Forum was organised in partnership with International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group. It brought together over 2 000 African private sector leaders and international investors.
MUPITA PROFILE BSc (Hons), Engineering, Cape Town; 2000, MBA, Cape Town; GMP, Harvard; exec. prog., London Business School and INSEAD. Formerly, engineer on construction projects, Haw & Inglis.
Since 2001, with Old Mutual, South Africa, including: 2004, Managing Director, Old Mutual Unit Trusts; 2006, Strategy Director; 2008, Managing Director, Retail; 2011, Chief Executive Officer, Old Mutual Emerging Markets; also interim Strategy Director and Chair, Emerging Markets Exco IT Subcommittee.
Director, Emerging Markets, OMLACSA.
Member of various subsidiary boards. Member of the Advisory Board, Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town.
MUPITA PROFILE
BSc (Hons), Engineering, Cape Town; 2000, MBA, Cape Town; GMP, Harvard; exec. prog., London Business School and INSEAD. Formerly, engineer on construction projects, Haw & Inglis. Since 2001, with Old Mutual, South Africa, including: 2004, Managing Director, Old Mutual Unit Trusts; 2006, Strategy Director; 2008, Managing Director, Retail; 2011, Chief Executive Officer, Old Mutual Emerging Markets; also interim Strategy Director and Chair, Emerging Markets Exco IT Subcommittee.
Director, Emerging Markets, OMLACSA. Member of various subsidiary boards. Member of the Advisory Board, Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town. Involved with LEAP School, South Africa.— STAFF WRITER.
