WOMEN IN MARKETING UGANDA HONORS 2024

Her career spans almost 20 years who is currently the Managing Director at MetropolitanRepublic Uganda.

MetropolitanRepublic is part of the MetropolitanRepublic Group, a full-service communications company, with a firm and highly valued Strategic and Behavioral Change reputation. Metro’s Consultant Deployment Offering is now operational in 11 Countries in Africa.

She started out as an intern at Scanad Uganda. She is an insight-seeker and brand-builder, passionate about solving communication problems and creating dynamic teams.

Josephine is Formerly general Manager in charge of IMC/Creative Director/Senior Copywriter/Creative Strategist.

After 3 years, and two promotions, Muvumba moved to Saatchi & Saatchi (QG Group) where she was Chief Copywriter responsible for Conceptual Advertising for 3 years.

 She ended up leaving to join Nicola Brown’s agency, Ignition as a shareholder, founder and Creative Director. We grew the company over a period of 2 to 3 years from 2 founders up to 15 people.

After 5 years, she I left Ignition and returned to QG to help set up their new office in Kigali. She was Deputy MD and Creative Director at the same time.

Annette is a Sales, Marketing & Communications professional with experience spanning 15 years across sectors including FMCGS & Banking.

Experience
She is the current Head of marketing and communications I&M Bank Uganda formerly Orient Bank Uganda since June 2022

Annette joined I&M Bank Uganda from Uganda Breweries where she served as Head of International Premium Spirits & RTD category.

At Diageo,she also served as Head of Luxury Portifolio for over 2 years where she grew the Reserve Brand strategy, marketing plans.

Annette also served as the Scotch Brand Manager for 1 year,Luxury Consumer Engagement Manager for over 3 years where she led a team of managers, across Experiential, Digital and media staff to deliver her mandate.

Her career at UBL started in 2010 as a customer relationship executive to Key accounts manager in 2012.

Annette will always be remembered for launching the UBL’s reserve and Luxury portfolios with marketing initiatives that served over 200 Uganda’s most influential people in one room.

Clare is a marketing professional with over 15 years of experience in experience in Banking, insurance, and Advertising and FMCG’s

Experience

She is currently the Marketing and Communications Head at Equity bank having moved from Ecobank Uganda.

Her key strengths include Marketing Management, Business Planning, Banking, Market Research, and Management.

Claire served as Marketing Director at Ballpack Insurance Group for 5 years with key responsibilities including overall promotion of the company’s image to create aggregate sustainable demand for brand’s products and services.

Prior to that, she worked at Finance Trust Bank as Head of Marketing for a period of 6 years responsible for Marketing and business development function of the Bank to develop and implement marketing and communications strategies, reputation, crisis management, CSR, Product development.

Claire served in other various brands including Senior Manager Marketing at National Insurance Corporation Uganda, Marketing Manager at Microcare for 5 years.

Education

The graduate of Makerere University holds an MBA from Uganda Martyrs University among her various qualifications.

Allen is an accomplished marketing and communications leader with over 18 years of experience in Marketing, communications, corporate reputation management, crisis management, CSR and sustainability, corporate governance, customer experience especially in the financial sector.

Experience
Allen is the current Chief Manager, Corporate Affairs and Communication at Centenary Bank and has been with the bank for the last 12 years.

At Centenary Bank. Allen oversees corporate affairs including public relations, Internal and External Communications strategy across Traditional and Digital channels, Crisis management, CSR, Social performance Management among other roles. She manages a team of over 15 staff across the discipline.

She joined Centenary Bank from British Council where she served as Marketing and Communications Manager for close to 2 years.

Allen has also worked with brands including DFCU Bank for over 3 years, and National Housing and Construction Company as Sales and Marketing Officer for over 3 years.

Education
She is graduate of Bachelor of Arts, Social Sciences and hold Master of Business Administration both from Makerere University.

She also holds a diploma in Internal Communications, a Diploma in Public Relations from the Chartered Institute of Public Relations among her other qualifications.

Hellen Nangonzi is an accomplished leader with over 18 years of career experience especially in banking.

Experience

She is currently the Marketing and Customer Experience Director Absa Uganda for the responsible for Segment Marketing and Communications, Product Development and Brand Management, Client Experience Management, Sustainability, Digital Marketing, Public Relations, Crisis Management, and Community Engagement.

She led the team to successfully rebrand from Barclays to Absa with a positioning that has since elevated the brand to top 5 commercial banks by profit in Uganda.

Hellen spent 14 years at Standard Chartered bank both in Uganda and East Africa and held several positions including Head of Corporate Affairs, Brand & Marketing, Kenya & East Africa  for over 3 years, Head of Corporate Affairs, Brand & Marketing at Standard Chartered Bank, Uganda for over a year among other roles.

Education

Hellen holds post graduate Diploma in professional Marketing from CIM UK, an MBA from Eastern and southern Africa Management Institute(ESAMI), Executive MBA and bachelor’s degree, Social Sciences from Makerere University among her other academic qualifications.

She is formerly the Director Communications and Marketing at World Vision Uganda a role she has been in since 2020 and left in 2023.

Experience

Evelyn possesses over 20 years’ experience in communications, business development, stakeholder relationship/Partnerships management, advocacy, grant management, Strategy and public health programming

She was a Coordinator Resource Mobilization, Uganda Red Cross Society (URCS) for a period of 2 years.

Evelyn has also been a Director/Head -Marketing and Strategic Communications at USAID/ Johns Hopkins University-CCP and Uganda Health Marketing Group Consortium for a period of 5 years.

She served as Senior Assistant Manager- Business Development Insurance Company of East Africa (ICEA Group) for 4 years, Guest Lecturer (Stakeholder Marketing, Delivering Customer Value Through Marketing),Uganda Management Institute/Chartered Institute of Marketing-UK Programme for 2 years,

Evelyn was previously the Head of Marketing Dembe FM radio (Now under Nation Media Group) for I year having come from Sanyu FM as Head Marketing for 7 years.

Goretti is a marketing communications ppffesional with over 20 years of leadership experience across strategy, communications, risk management, change management, business development among others.

Goretti is the current CEO at The Uganda Institute of Banking & Financial Services since March 2020.

Experience

Her first employment position after graduating from Makerere University was as a brewer with Uganda Breweries Limited, the Ugandan subsidiary of Diageo.

While there, she served as brand manager for Bell Lager. Goretti happens to have been the first practicing female brewer in Uganda and East Africa, at that time.

She served as the Director of Marketing, Communications and Sales at Program For Accessible Health Communication and Education (PACE), a Ugandan non-government organization (NGO), affiliated with Population Services International.

She also worked and Head of Corporate Communications and Product Development at former Orient Bank for 2 years. Her responsibilities included Development, direction and supervision of internal and external marketing, brand and PR communications strategy, development and execution of advertising campaigns, development and execution of annual CSR and other PR programs among other roles.

Prior to that, Goretti served as the Head of Corporate Communications at Global Trust Bank for a period of 3 years.

Susan is a marketing and communications professional with over 25 years of experience, with 15 years of these in senior executive roles successfully leading corporate, marketing and communications teams and departments across diverse industries.

She becomes Nation Media Group`s Uganda first female Managing Director effective Jan 2nd, 2024.She rejoins NMG this time not as rookie journalist of 1992 but a multi skilled Marketing leader.
She will be responsible for leading NMG Uganda, The East African and Africa Broadcasting (U) Limited (the broadcasting company that operates NTV and Spark TV) to deliver their long-term strategy, business plans and annual performance targets, to maximize value to shareholders.

Experience
Susan rejoins NMG from Ayiva Consulting Solutions where she is currently the managing director. She previously worked for Urge Uganda, a full-service marketing communications agency handling some of the biggest accounts across different sectors.

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