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He will focus on operational and financial advisory, elevating client experience, and reinforcing the systems and processes that support the firm's growth.

Biyi Adeniran, director at ISSEC, has worked across engineering, IT, audit, compliance and operations, and across industries from oil and gas to healthcare. After over three decades, his conviction is that governance is a trust problem, and most organisations are solving the wrong one.

She brings over 15 years of finance leadership across East and Southern Africa to the London-listed mining company.

With over 65 percent of wealth transfers in the region remaining unplanned and a $15 trillion global shift to younger generations on the horizon, the traditional rules of legacy building are changing fast.

Geoffrey Njuguna, CFO of Interswitch East Africa, was the day's winner when an intimate group of 16 CFOs gathered at Nairobi's Muthaiga Golf Club for a round of golf in December 2025. He shares his thoughts on the parallels between finding the fairways and the CFO role.

Kenya Power's senior finance leadership now has a seat at the table of East Africa's most active community of financial minds, following the utility's sign-up as a corporate member of CFO East Africa.

Dunstan Stober has spent years leading finance teams across different markets. He has navigated the pressures of delivering results in complex environments. Speaking at the CFO East Africa leadership summit, he reflected on the courage leadership requires when pressure builds.

For AAR Insurance's senior finance team, the membership opens up year-round access to East Africa's leading finance community and a platform for professional growth.

Weetabix finance director Dr Sebastian Nthama, PhD reflects on how navigating a war zone in Ethiopia shaped his resilient approach to leadership. He also reveals why he returned to university to pursue a law degree after 32 years in finance.

Energy waste is the only line item on your P&L that you pay for every second, yet rarely audit with the same rigor as payroll or procurement.

While delivering the partner address at the CFO East Africa Leadership Summit, Stanbic Bank Kenya acting CEO Abraham Ongenge drew on lessons from his own career transitions to make the case for a new kind of leadership built on co-creation and humility.

The fintech veteran brings two decades of finance leadership across payments, digital assets and online travel to the pan-African payments company.

Fourteen years into a career in impact finance, Charles Gachuhi is still keen on building systems that hold.

WPP Scangroup COO Miriam Kaggwa, who comes on board as a CFO Awards judge, warns that technical expertise is merely the baseline for modern finance professionals. She explains why the next generation of successful CFOs must evolve into multi-disciplinary leaders who can confidently translate complex numbers into a compelling commercial narrative

Amid the geopolitical firestorm in the Middle East, are investors being complacent or just savvy? Read on to learn about resilient, long-term investing.

In this interview with CFO East Africa, Stanbic Bank Kenya head of sustainability Priscilla Were reflects on navigating the shift towards mandatory IFRS S1 and S2 adoption and steering the bank through the evolving green finance landscape.

The renowned business leader has spent decades working across banking, government and corporate boards. He has observed how the role of finance leaders continues to evolve. Delivering the keynote address on humanising financial leadership at the CFO East Africa leadership summit at Villa Rosa Kempinski in Nairobi, he reflected on how the expectations placed on chief financial officers have changed.

The CFO East Africa Leadership Summit held at Villa Rosa Kempinski in Nairobi on 13 March, brought together the region’s finance leaders for an evening of candid reflection and shared insights.

He joins EABL from Diageo Ireland, where he serves as finance director, bringing over fifteen years of finance and leadership experience across Africa and Europe.

2026 CFO Awards judge Kinya Kimotho reveals why modern finance leaders must evolve from traditional bean counters to trusted business advisors.