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Before an audience of more than 100 CFOs, CFO East Africa’s trusted partners had just four minutes to make their pitches before the buzzer sounded at the community’s first-ever Pitch Parade.

Lawrence Kimathi, group CFO at KCB, is among the nominees for the 2026 CFO East Africa Awards, with over 20 years of financial leadership across banking, insurance, beverages and tobacco in East Africa and beyond.

The operator of Tanzania's largest container handling facility brings a cross-functional leadership team into CFO East Africa as it takes up a corporate membership.

As part of its corporate membership, ATC, which powers mobile connectivity across Africa, brings its senior finance team into the community.

Jacqueline Kiwanuka, CFO at Uganda Electricity Distribution Company (UECDL), is among the nominees for the 2026 CFO East Africa Awards, with 20 years of financial leadership across Uganda's public and private sectors.

KPMG Uganda country managing partner Stephen Ineget spoke at the CFO Sustainability Summit at Four Points by Sheraton Kampala on August 13, where he said companies need to bring ESG into their financial planning as Uganda prepares for IFRS S1 and S2 reporting.

At the CFO of the Future Summit in Dar es Salaam, more than 100 finance leaders came together to examine how sustainability and technology are changing the finance function. Across the evening, speakers explored what it means to help shape the future of a business.

AI is moving beyond chatbots and prompts, with new systems capable of carrying out tasks with limited human intervention. At CFO East Africa’s CFO of the Future Summit in Dar es Salaam, Dr Allen Mutono challenged finance leaders to rethink how they use AI while keeping human judgement at the centre.

Frederick Nshekanabo, CFO at CRDB Bank, is among the nominees for the 2026 CFO East Africa Awards, having spent nearly three decades at one of Tanzania's largest banks.

The membership gives Liquid Kenya’s finance leadership team opportunities to connect with peers and access CFO East Africa’s professional development opportunities.

Flora Makule, CFO at Reliance Insurance Company Tanzania, is among the nominees for the 2026 CFO East Africa Awards, with over 17 years of experience across insurance and banking in Tanzania.

At the CFO East Africa Sustainability Summit in Kampala, Stanbic Bank Uganda CEO Mumba Kalifungwa said sustainability needs to be understood across the enterprise while finance leaders connect reporting requirements with long-term value.

Finance leaders at the CFO East Africa Sustainability Summit in Kampala argued that sustainability has moved from a side project into the centre of financial strategy.

The CFO East Africa Sustainability Summit in Kampala dived into the growing role of CFOs in ESG and the need to tailor global frameworks to local realities.

Dederi Wimana, CFO at I&M Bank Rwanda, is among the second cohort of nominees for the 2026 CFO East Africa Awards, with over two decades of banking and finance experience in Rwanda.

Doreen Mangesho, director of finance and administration at PASS Trust, is among the nominees for the 2026 CFO East Africa Awards, with nearly two decades of financial leadership across Tanzania's non-profit and banking sectors.

For the third year running, more than 150 finance leaders from across East Africa gathered in Nairobi for the CFO East Africa Sustainability Summit, coming to the consensus that ESG belongs in the CFO’s office.

Speaking at the third annual CFO East Africa Sustainability Summit held at the Villa Rosa Kempinski on 16 July, Safaricom's head of FP&A and investor relations, Caroline Wambugu, made the case that sustainability financing is a strategic commitment with measurable targets and real financial instruments behind it.

Clarisse Umutoni, CFO at the Rwanda Agriculture and Animal Resources Development Board (RAB), is among the second cohort of nominees for the 2026 "Oscars of Finance".