Profiles

Uganda’s newsrooms have produced editors, publishers and broadcasters. They have rarely produced a Speaker’s spokesman with a PhD in the very industry he once chased deadlines for. Dr. Arinaitwe Deo …

For Hamis Ssewagudde Mukasa, the language of commerce was learned long before he founded his first venture. Raised within his family’s electrical supplies enterprise, a second-generation firm serving Uganda’s construction …

The numbers are striking. Assets grew from UGX 807 billion to UGX 8.61 trillion. Customer deposits increased from UGX 630 billion to UGX 5.27 trillion. The loan portfolio expanded more …

Long before Ian Rumanyika became one of East Africa’s most respected communications strategists, he was learning the principles of business from behind the counter of his mother’s small neighbourhood supermarket. …

In the early 1900s, long before Uganda had modern highways, industrial parks or export processing zones, a lone merchant drove a second-hand truck through the dusty roads of western Uganda. …

Most organisations invest heavily in visibility. Marketing budgets, communication strategies and digital campaigns are often designed to maximise awareness and engagement. Yet awareness alone rarely influences business outcomes. The real …

The future of crisis communication may no longer belong to the fastest communicator in the room but to the communicator who best understands how algorithms, artificial intelligence, and digital ecosystems …

Dr. Joseph Mubiru is a Pharmaceutical leader with over a decade of experience across the pharmaceutical value chain, including regulatory affairs, manufacturing, quality assurance, distribution, and enterprise development. His career …

Dr. Fahad Ntale is a systems-driven CEO and entrepreneur with extensive experience building and scaling high-performance organisations. As Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Impact Woods Ltd, one of Uganda’s …