Irene steps up from her role as CFO, bringing 25 years of experience in financial management across telecoms, energy and financial services.
Irene Maberi has been appointed interim CEO of ASA Microfinance Uganda.
She joined ASA Microfinance in March 2025 as CFO and moves into the top role slightly over a year later.
Irene began her career at MTN Uganda in January 2001 as an assistant accountant in banking. She progressed steadily through the organisation over nearly 11 years, moving several roles before being seconded to MTN Shared Services as finance manager for IT shared services in September 2011, a position she held until May 2014.
She joined Smart Uganda as finance manager in April 2014, overseeing the full finance function for three years before moving to Vivo Energy Uganda in July 2017. At Vivo Energy she served first as financial controller, then as finance manager from March 2018.
In July 2022 she joined Airtel Mobile Commerce Uganda as head of finance, overseeing financial reporting, operations, settlement and reconciliation, planning and analysis, and assurance functions. She left in March 2025 to take up the CFO role at ASA Microfinance Uganda.
Since October 2025 she has also served as a member of the board of directors of Makerere University Holdings Limited, where she provides oversight and advisory input on finance, tax, and governance matters.
Irene is a fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Makerere University, a BSc in applied accounting from Oxford Brookes University, and an MBA from the East and Southern African Management Institute.
