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ALLEN AMPAIRE(MBA)

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Who is Allen Ampaire?

Allen is a legendary marketing and sales queen in the hospitality sector. She has been around, seen it and literally done it all.

Allen is the current Country Sales & Marketing Manager at Kampala Serena Hotel  responsible for marketing sales, customer experience, events, sustainability arms of the 5-star Hotel and conference Center.

Experience

Having worked around the EastAfrican Region, Allen settled at home and to mentor hospitality professionals in rooms divisions, Hospitality Management, Customer Service, Management, and Hotel Management. Strong sales & Marketing.

She chose Serena for its standards and multinational components and has been there for over 18 years of her professional career among other brands she has worked with.

Why allen stands out.

She has been involved in preparation, attracting partners, and marketing the hospitality sector for over 18 years. That dedication can never go unnoticed.

She has been spearheaded attraction of over 2000 premium events to be hosted at Serena including concerts, product launches, International, regional conferences among others making Kampala Serena remain profitable over the years.

Allen has mentored over 1000 professionals especially in the hospitality sector hence contributing immensely to the marketing profession.

Education
Among her other academic qualifications, Allen graduated from Makerere University Business School with an MBA

Allen also conducts private consulting sessions in Customer experience, sales and Marketing, Hotel Management.

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JUDITH OWEMBABAZI (MBA) (PGDCS, MIS)

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Who is Judith Owembabazi?

Judith is a legendary Marketer and  a CEO material who has spent over 2 decades in both middle and senior management positions across marketing, branding, communications, PR, CSR, research, and product development.

She is the current Founder and Board Member, Kangaroo Nest and Gold Bird International Preschool and nursery

Experience
As a financial services brand and communications expert, Judith   has worked with several Brands including  Bank of Uganda, Housing Finance Bank, Ecobank among others.

Prior to concentrating on her various investments in education, real estate, Judith worked with Housing Finance Bank Uganda in various positions including General Manager, Marketing and Product development for a period of 9 years offering impactful leadership in brand image and reputation, product development and performance, communications, and branding functions.

She did great here. She was also Marketing and Public Relations Manager for a period of 6 years.

Prior to that she was at Ecobank as Head Brand and Communications for over 2 years. She took care of corporate affairs, CSR, partnerships, and alliances to position the Pan African brand as the bank of choice

Why she stands out

She spearheaded the rebranding the Pan African Bank to drive consistent global footprint growth, across the African continent and beyond.

At Housing Finance, she led the team to achieve  the highest profitability that it had ever recorded, widened the bank’s footprint with more branches being opened, witnessed the acquisition of commercial banking license.

Education
Judith holds various academic qualifications including Certification of CEO Apprenticeship Programme Organizational Leadership from Strathmore University, CEO Apprenticeship

Programme (CAP) 2019; a training and mentorship Programme aimed at accelerating the readiness of the next generation CEOs who are visionary and ethical leaders.

She also holds a Strathmore University certificate, women in leadership programme, Executive Leadership.

A mother of  4  holds an MBA, Business Management & Marketing, PGDCS-MIS, Bachelor of  Mass Communication, Public Relations from Makerere University

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CALEB OWINO(MBA)

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Who is Celeb Owino?

Caleb is an accomplished leader with over 20 years’ experience across  various industries including Manufacturing, Telecoms, FMCG, Real estate, Oil and Pharmaceutical.

Has worked in various markets in Europe and Africa including Sweden, Poland, Finland, Denmark, Cyprus, Kenya, Uganda, among others.

Experience

Caleb is a Member, Board of Directors CoRSU Children’s Hospital Kisubi a non-profit pediatric orthopedic hospital that provides high quality corrective surgeries to people with disabilities since  2016

He  served in various positions including CEO Dei Group a position he served for over one year, MD Fireworks Advertising Limited a leading advertising and marketing agency having cofounded it in 2008.

He has served as Chairman and Vice Chairman Uganda Advertising Association for 6 and 3 years respectively.

Why Caleb stands out

Having left ZK Advertising Uganda Limited early 2008, he joined Fireworks Advertising as MD and made a market shift by running successful campaigns for brands and organization including Pepsi, EABL, Tullow Oil, Barclays Bank, DFCU, UBA, Barclays Bank, NSSF and Fresh Dairy among other brands.

At Safaricom, Caleb served as Brand Manager for 3 years and during his tenure he Headed the Marketing Department (in acting capacity) with a team of eight section managers and the PR/Advertisement Agency. During the time Caleb spearhead developed and implemented  out of the box marketing plans under tight budgets a time Safaricom was advancing to various areas and his effort increased revenue by 30% that year .

He achieved that by restructuring media and communication strategy to increase share of voice by 20 percent points against main competitors that year.

Education
Caleb is a graduate of Bachelor of Arts (BA), Economics and Political Science from University of Nairobi and holds an Executive MBA Strategy and Leadership from Harvard Business School among other academic qualifications.

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OLIVE LUMONYA (MCIM , CHARTERED MARKETER, MBA,)

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Who is Olive Lumonya?

She is the chairperson Board FINCA Uganda (MDI) and current  Deputy Director General of Uganda Civil Aviation Authority a position she assumed on November 15, 2021

Prior to her appointment, Olive was the Country Director of SOS Children`s Villages Uganda

She is an accomplished leader in the corporate and NGO sectors in Uganda. Her leadership experience, management, and Board engagement spans over 20 years.

Why Olive stands out

She possesses Over 25 years’ experience in Private, Government and NGO sectors. 15 at senior management with 6 years in the leadership position as Country Director SOS Children’s Villages Uganda ,offering strategic direction to over 400members of staff.

She oversaw the rebranding and repositioning of the National Social Security Fund, Repositioning of Nile Special and Club beers brands of South Breweries

Additional experience

Olive has previously served as Head of Marketing a communications-NSSF, Brand marketing Manager -Nile Breweries among other roles.

Academic qualifications

The Chartered Marketer from Chartered Institute of Marketing UK holds an MBA from ESAMI Arusha, Africa Board Fellow certificate, Balanced Score Card Champion from Balanced Score Card Institute. She is a graduate of Mass communications and Media studies from Makerere University among other qualifications.

She I also a professional writer, and as a news reporter who has published several articles in the leading newspapers in Uganda  and now  focused on publishing articles on personal branding

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JULIANA KAGWA (MBA)

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Who is Juliana Kaggwa?

Currently, Juliana is the Corporate Relations Director at UBL a subsidiary of Diageo PLC directly responsible for Public Policy and Regulatory matters affecting the brewery industry and UBL specifically.

As a key strategic individual, Juliana manages a vast array of both internal and external stakeholders on behalf of UBL.

She previously  served as a Marketing and Innovations Director since 2015.

Working experience

Juliana has over 2 decades of FMCG experience both at strategic and implementation levels.

Prior to her current position, Juliana served as a marketing Director at the same company, UBL for five and a half years. The marketing function she supervised was accountable for 50% of the UBL`s strategic goals.

She was directly responsible for business growth of local brands like Bell Lager, Uganda Waragi alongside internationally acclaimed brands like Jonnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys among others.

Juliana Kagwa has previously served in various strategic positions including Marketing Manager Spirits Uganda at East African Breweries Ltd.

She also served as a Country Director Heineken Uganda before returning to East African Breweries.

Why Juliana Kaggwa stands out

She has been part of key  CSR and stakeholder Campaigns including Taasa Obutonde` championed by UBL in partnership with NBS, Stanbic Bank, VIVO Energy and NEMA among others.

Flavors like coconut and Pineapple were introduced to Uganda waragi while Apple under her stewardship and was key to introduce Smirnoff as part of UBL`s product innovations and refinements. These have since changed the game of spirits taste in Uganda.

Uganda has had  the best executed campaigns and premium events including  Blankets and Wine sponsored by Tusker Malt, Roast and Rhyme sponsored by Bell Lager, The All star Tours of Swangz Avenue, The All Safari Experience by Jonnie Walker, The Baileys Picnic Experience.All these happened under Juliana`s stewardship.

During the same period, the portfolio registered an all-time high share of voice in the media space with efficiencies created through her consolidation of media spend especially on digital marketing.

Academic Qualifications.
Among her other Academic qualifications, Juliana has an MBA from the prestigious Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University

She also holds Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) of Food Science and Technology from Makerere University Uganda.

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SUSAN NSIBIRWA (MCIM,MBA)

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Who is Susan Nsibirwa?

She is the current Managing partner and lead consultant at Urge Uganda, a full-service marketing communications agency handling some of the biggest accounts across different sectors.

Susan`s wealth of experience spans close to 2 decades in leadership within sectors like financial services, media, telecommunications at both strategic and implementation levels.

She previously served as Head of Marketing at Uganda`s leading media powerhouse, Vision Group for 8 years managing the corporate marketing and communications functions.

During her stay at Vision Group, she was overseeing a 30-member team with key deliverables in direct brand management, public relations, internal and external communications, corporate positioning, product and service launches, advertising, event management and sales collateral among other functions of marketing. That is a huge responsibility right there.

 She will be remembered for having promoted and elevated the Vision Group brand boosted its market share and profitability year on year since joining.

Prior to joining Vision Group, Susan worked at DFCU Bank as their Head of marketing for over 3 and half years. She is remembered for her key role in the development and launch of Dembe account one of DFCU`s most successful products ever created among other key projects and responsibilities.

 

Why Susan Nsibirwa stands out.

Having mentored, supervised, and groomed over 300 marketing and communications professionals directly, Susan took her experience in Entrepreneurship marketing and founded Urge Uganda a Marketing Communications agency in early 2019. To our surprise, Urge Uganda has been behind successful onboarding of some of the industry big names including Grant Thornton, FSD Uganda, Crest Foam Ltd in a short time possible.

Urge Uganda has also handled major projects like rebranding of the prestigious Uganda Management Institute. Among others.

This is remarkable given the company`s short business life with steep competition in Uganda`s marketing agency space.

Academic Qualifications.

Susan is a member of the Charted Institute of Marketing-UK (MCIM)and a graduate of Makerere University with Bachelor of Arts in Mass communications among her other academic qualifications.

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AGGREY KAGONYERA

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Who is Aggrey Kagonyera?

Aggrey is the current CEO and Founder at Legends Events & Hospitality an events, marketing, and promotions outfit  responsible for business growth, client strategy, talent management.

MTN Uganda is a telecommunications market leader established 21 years ago. Aggrey having served for 14 years at MTN is outstanding and we consider him a legend who forged way on how devices, voice, data are marketed in Uganda.

Experience

Aggrey Kagonyera is one of the pioneers and longest serving managers of MTN Uganda having served at the Telecoms giant for 14 years as Senior Manager Sponsorships & Events.

In 2004,Aggrey spearheaded a team  to promote local music having been involved in sponsoring sports for a long time. This involved helping upcoming artistes by showcasing artistes of different styles from kadongo kamu to ragga and hip hop.

Why Aggrey stands out

He spearheaded  key MTN’s sponsorships including  Ekiggunda ky’omwaka every first weekend of July and in that year the festival brought together an estimated 50,000 fun-loving Ugandans to Nakivubo Stadium for a day- and night-long festivity at which more than 120 musicians performed.

Aggrey  will be remembered for spearheading the launch of Uganda`s biggest marathon, the MTN Kampala marathon a spectacular event property it has since become.

Aggrey led the teams to  win several awards including Best Corporate Brand on Social media DIAA 2014

Education

A bachelor’s degree, Business/Commerce graduate also holds  a master’s degree , Information Technology among his other academic qualifications.

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BARBRA ARIMI TEDDY (MBA,MCIPR,MCIM)

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Who is Barbra Arimi?

Barbra remains one of Uganda`s most accomplished marketers and CEO material. She is the current Head of Marketing and Communications at National Social Security Fund(NSSF) responsible for Marketing planning, strategy, product development, Research, brand marketing, Communications both digital and traditional.

Experience
Prior to joining the fund, Arimi served as Group Head Corporate Communications and Marketing at Orient Bank for close to 2 years.

She joined Orient Bank from Centenary  Bank where she served as Brand Manager for over 3 years

Arimi has also worked as Marketing and sales manager Post Bank for over 3 & half years and did tremendous work there.

Why Barbra stands out
Barbra spearheaded the NSSF brand positioning, image, and reputation from the time she joined to date. NSSF friends with benefits, NSSF Financial Literacy programs, NSSF Mobile among other key projects and products were all launched under her supervision. The  latest is the digitalization of the old NSSF card to a multipurpose Visa enabled card.

She is a current board member at DFCU Group since 2019 and a CEO Apprenticeship Alumni Association.

Education
The marketing goddess is a graduate with Bachelor of Commerce from Makerere University, Member of Chartered Institute of Marketing UK(MCIM), Member of Chartered Institute of

Public Relations(MCIPR), holds an Executive MBA from ESAMI among her various academic qualifications.

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SIMON KAHERU(MBA)

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Who is Simon Kaheru?

Simon is  the current Head of Groups public policy and partnerships function at Cocacola Beverages Africa.

Experience

Simon`s career spans over 25 years with his new employment being  and previously Director of Public Affairs and Communications at Coca-Cola Beverages Africa Uganda since October 2017.

Simon has had four years of Senior management with Coca-Cola Beverages Africa, a Fast-Moving Consumer Goods organization, managing Communications, Corporate Social Responsibility and Logistics.

He put in Nine years in mainstream media and desk operations, at a Senior media management with a busy English newspaper, The New Vision.

Simon previously had two years of Communications and Relationship management with the Government of Uganda.

Why Simon Stands out

Aside his rich experience, Simon has mentored over 300 communications professionals, presided over 1000 events as a moderator/ public speaker and has worked in major sectors including Government, Private sector, media and now in the Fast-Moving Consumer Goods( FMCG) world.

Simon has also previously  served as  a Director-Member of the Board for Uganda Broadcasting Services(UBC)

He dedicated his Nineteen years to manage Media Analyst, a New Age Media firm providing value added services for a wide range of clients and partners in East and Central Africa.

Simon is a key member of Public Relations Association of Uganda(PRAU),American Chamber of Commerce(AmCham) Uganda, a professional association affiliated with the US Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C. which is an important forum for investors and businesses to network, share experience, and coordinate efforts.

Education

The Kings College Budo Old Boy is also the current Board chairman of ICT Associations of Uganda with a  Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communications, Journalism and Related programs from the Prestigious Makerere University among his other academic qualifications

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AGGIE ASIIMWE KONDE(MBA)

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Who is Agnes Asiimwe Konde?

Aggie Konde is a Ugandan polished marketer, an FMCG and multimedia industry expert with over 2 decades of experience in Strategy, leadership, talent management, business growth.

Aggie Konde is the current Vice President Program Development & Innovation at Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) an organisation that seeks to transform African agriculture from a subsistence model to strong businesses that improve the livelihoods of the continent’s farming households headquartered in Nairobi Kenya an established in 2006.

She has been in this role since November 2019.

At AGRA, she is responsible for the strategic role of program development implementation and monitoring of impact. The role drives the design and oversight of all elements of AGRA’s technical programs and strategy in 12 AGRA countries in East, West, and parts of Southern Africa

Experience

Prior to joining AGRA, Aggie Konde spent 2 years as CEO Msingi East Africa an Independent, multi-decade organization that seeks to identify and support East Africa’s industries of the future to create widespread and lasting prosperity in the region.

Aggie has served on various positions before leaving Uganda including MD NTV a company of Africa Broadcasting (U) Limited, Head of Sales and Marketing Crown Beverages Limited the manufacturers of Pepsi among other beverages, Circulation and Marketing Manager, Monitor Publications Limited a Nation Media Group company.

Why Aggie Konde stands out

At NTV, she  led a team to launch Spark TV, VID TV, NTV GO among other projects while designing, providing foresight, and directing ABUL’s short-term and long-term strategic plan with an aim of growing shareholder value.

Aggie is also remembered for developing and implementing robust Sales and Marketing strategies that delivered turn around market share from 29% to 49% within three years.

She also grew the retail segment from 15,000 outlets to 90,000 registered retail stores, tripled the distribution partners across the nation. Aggie championed the diversification of CBL’s portfolio from a limited mix to a healthy balanced Product and Brand Portfolio.

Aggie successfully launched 93.3 KFM and achieved number two audience rating in a record 8 months after launch. Developed and implemented a successful re-brand/relaunch of the Daily Monitor and grew market share from 30% to 45%.
She was voted Best Sales Representative twice in a row and was Project Manager for Benson & Hedges and Embassy cigarette launch in Uganda

Education

Aggie Konde holds a bachelor’s degree Social Sciences from Makerere University, Executive Diploma, Organizational Leadership from  Global CEO Program IESE Business School, MBA from University of Liverpool among other qualifications.

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