Top 50 Women in Corporate Africa Revealed after Data-Driven Research

In a major virtual summit with over 1,000 high-level attendees, Africa.com revealed the names of the 50 most senior women in Corporate Africa. The Africa.com Definitive List of Women CEOs is distinguished in that it is data-driven. The researchers started by working with data provided by Bloomberg and evaluating the over 1,400 companies listed on the 24 African stock exchanges.

The list yielded many more women from South Africa than any other African country, followed by Nigeria and Kenya.  The finance sector had more women CEOs than any other sector, followed closely by technology.  Africa.com Managing Director Laura Joseph said, “FIve companies had more than one woman on the list: Bidvest, Microsoft, Old Mutual, Sonatel, and Sanlam.”

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The methodology includes three sections:

1. CEOs of African exchange-listed companies with a market cap over $150 million USD;
2. division heads of African exchange-listed companies, where the division itself would be valued at over $150 million, were it standalone; and
3. Africa region heads, or country heads, of globally listed companies with a market cap of over $50 billion.

Africa.com Chair and Executive Editor Teresa Clarke said, “The list has started a movement to give African women something larger to aspire to: running a large, complex business – not just SMEs as is often the focus of women in business.”

The Africa.com 2021 Definitive List of Women CEOs
Rank	Name	Title	Company	Country	Stock Exchange	Market Cap
1	Natascha Viljoen	CEO	Anglo American Platinum	South Africa	Johannesburg Stock Exchange	$37.6 billion USD
2	Mpumi Madisa	CEO / Executive Director	Bidvest Group	South Africa	Johannesburg Stock Exchange	$3.6 billion USD
3	Lizé Lambrechts	CEO / Executive Director	Santam	South Africa	Johannesburg Stock Exchange	$1.9 billion USD
4	Miriam Olusanya	Managing Director	Guaranty Trust Bank Ltd	Nigeria	Nigeria Stock Exchange	$1.4 billion USD
5	Jane Karuku	Group Managing Director and CEO	East African Breweries Ltd	Kenya	Nairobi Stock Exchange	$1.2 billion USD
6	Helena Conradie	CEO	Satrix 40	South Africa	Johannesburg Stock Exchange	$650 million USD
7	Leila Fourie	CEO	JSE	South Africa	Johannesburg Stock Exchange	$640 million USD
8	Ruth Zaipuna	CEO	NMB Bank	Tanzania	Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange	$505 million USD
9	Nathalie Alquier	CEO	Centrale Danone	Morocco	Casablanca Stock Exchange	$500 million USD
10	Catherine Lesetedi	Group Chief Executive Officer	Botswana Insurance Holdings	Botswana	Botswana Stock Exchange	$445 million USD
11	Mansa Nettey	Chief Executive	Standard Chartered Bank	Ghana	Ghana Stock Exchange	$425 million USD
12	Anne Juuko	CEO	Stanbic Bank Holdings	Uganda	Uganda Securities Exchange	$370 million USD
13	Keabetswe Pheko-Moshagane	Managing Director	Absa Bank Botswana Ltd	Botswana	Botswana Stock Exchange	$346 million USD
14	Jackie van Niekerk	CEO	Attacq Ltd	South Africa	Johannesburg Stock Exchange	$323 million USD
15	Jalila Mezni	CEO	Société d’Articles Hygiéniques LILAS	Tunisia	Bourse de Tunis Stock Exchange	$304 million USD
16	Amelia Beattie	CEO	Liberty Two Degrees	South Africa	Johannesburg Stock Exchange	$281 million USD
17	Mercia Geises	CEO	SBN Holdings Ltd (Standard Bank)	Namibia	Namibian Stock Exchange	$277 million USD
18	Rebecca Miano	Managing Director and CEO	Kenya Electricity Generating	Kenya	Nairobi Stock Exchange	$275 million USD
19	Miriem Bensalah-Chaqroun	VP, Managing Director	Oulmes	Morocco	MC/Casablanca Stock Exchange	$230 million USD
20	Diane Karusisi	CEO	BK Group PLC	Rwanda	Rwanda Stock Exchange	$205 million USD
21	Nasim Devji	Group CEO and Managing Director	Diamond Trust Bank	Kenya	Nairobi Stock Exchange	$178 million USD
22	Nneka Onyeali-Ikpe	Managing Director and CEO	Fidelity Bank	Nigeria	Nigerian Stock Exchange	$165 million USD
DIVISION HEADS
23	Kanyisa Mkhize	CEO Sanlam Corporate	Sanlam	South Africa	Johannesburg Stock Exchange	$8.6 billion USD
24	Vivien McMenamin	CEO South Africa	Mondi South Africa	South Africa	Johannesburg Stock Exchange	$7.7 billion USD
25	Nevine Wefky	President of Corporate Credit and Investment	Commercial International Bank	Egypt	Egyptian Exchange	$5.7 Billion USD
26	Yolisa Phahle	CEO General Entertainment and Connected Video	The MultiChoice Group	South Africa	Johannesburg Stock Exchange	$3.8 billion USD
27	Kerrin Land	Managing Director, Personal Finance & Wealth Management	Old Mutual	South Africa	Johannesburg Stock Exchange	$3.7 billion USD
28	Prabashini Moodley	Managing Director	Old Mutual Corporate	South Africa	Johannesburg Stock Exchange	$3.7 billion USD
29	Hannah Sadiki	Bidvest Financial Services CEO	Bidvest Financial Services	South Africa	Johannesburg Stock Exchange	$3.6 billion USD
30	Ramatoulaye Diallo Shagaya	Managing Director Orange Finances Mobile Services	Sonatel	Senegal	Bourse Régionale des Valeurs Mobilières	$2.2 billion USD
31	Aminata Kane Ndiaye	CEO Orange Sierra Leone	Sonatel	Senegal	Bourse Régionale des Valeurs Mobilières	$2.2 billion USD
32	Kerry Cassel	CEO Financial Services Sector	Motus Holdings	South Africa	Johannesburg Stock Exchange	$1.1 billion USD
33	Anet Ahern	CEO PSG Asset Management	PSG Konsult	South Africa	Johannesburg Stock Exchange	$819 million USD
34	Nanees Adel	CSH Managing Director	Cleopatra Hospital	Egypt	Egyptian Exchange	$468 million USD
35	Hélène Echevin	CEO, CIEL Healthcare	CIEL	Mauritius	Stock Exchange of Mauritius	$166 million USD
REGIONAL HEADS
36	Teju Ajani	Managing Director Nigeria	Apple	Nigeria	NASDAQ	$2.1 trillion USD
37	Juliet Ehimuan	Director West Africa	Google	Nigeria	NASDAQ	$2.1 trillion USD
38	Kendi Ntwiga-Nderitu	Country Lead Kenya	Microsoft	Kenya	NASDAQ	$1.9 trillion USD
39	Lillian Barnard	CEO South Africa	Microsoft	South Africa	NASDAQ	$1.9 trillion USD
40	Nunu Ntshingila	Regional Director, Africa	Facebook	South Africa	NASDAQ	$836 billion USD
41	Aida Diarra	Senior Vice President and Head of Sub-Saharan Africa	VISA Inc	South Africa	New York Stock Exchange	$466 billion USD
42	Chantal Umutoni Kagame	CEO	MTN Rwanda	Rwanda	Rwanda Stock Exchange	$361 billion USD
43	Yvonne Ike	Managing Director, Sub-Saharan Africa	Bank of America	Nigeria	New York Stock Exchange	$332 billion USD
44	Cathy Smith	MD Sub-Saharan Africa	SAP	South Africa	Frankfurt Stock Exchange	$171 billion USD
45	Ireti Samuel-Ogbu	CEO Nigeria and Ghana	Citibank	Nigeria	New York Stock Exchange	$151 billion USD
46	Mariam Kane-Garcia	CEO South Africa & Executive VP Southern Africa	TotalEnergies	South Africa	Euronext	$122 billion USD
47	Angela Kyerematen-Jimoh	Regional Head North, East. and West Africa	IBM	Ghana	NASDAQ	$119 billion USD
48	Brenda Mbathi	President GE East Africa	General Electra	Kenya	New York Stock Exchange	$111 billion USD
49	Mpumi Zikalala	Managing Director, de Beers Group Managed Operations	De Beers Group	South Africa	De Beers	$61 billion USD
50	Taelo Mojapelo	CEO and Vice President	British Petroleum Southern Africa	South Africa	LSE/London Stock Exchange	$59 billion USD

 

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