Board Of Directors

Prof. Ben Kiregyera
Chairperson Board of Directors

Prof. Kiregyera has been at the forefront of the statistical renaissance and associated statistical architecture in Africa. He has assisted many countries in Africa to reform their statistical systems and/or design their Statistical Master Plans/National Strategies for the Development of Statistics. He led a team of international consultants that designed the Reference Regional Strategic Framework for Statistical Capacity Building in Africa (RRSF) and wrote the first documentation on NSDS that was published by PARIS21 (Partnership in Statistics for Development in the 21st Century).
He is the initiator and Co-chair of the Editorial Board of the African Statistical Journal which is published by the African Development Bank, the initiator and member of the editorial Board of the African Statistical Newsletter which is published by the African Centre for Statistics at UNECA. He belongs to a number of international professional associations

Board

Mr. Michel Dubois
Director

Mr. Dubois is a seasoned professional banker with 37 years of experience within three large organizations, having worked in 8 different countries and on three continents. He has been responsible for 10 various set ups (branch, subsidiary, bureau) of Paribas and BNP Paribas among them and he had the opportunity to create two new set of the bank in Russia and Saudi Arabia.
His management skills and personal behavior have enabled him to operate efficiently with people of various race, nationality and religion. He has dealt with some of the biggest corporate entities worldwide such as Kwaneer (USA) TOTAL both in Africa and the Middle East.

Ms. Olive Kabatalya
Director

Ms. Kabatalya is a financial services expert having accumulated 12 years hands-on operational experience in banking and over 20 years in microfinance institutions capacity building as a consultant. She has served in several countries in Africa and Asia and was part of two project teams that laid the foundation of microfinance capacity building in Uganda and Cambodia.

Her employment experience has been with the Uganda Commercial Bank (Now Stanbic Bank), the United Nations, Chemonics International, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Enterprising Solutions Global.

Mr. Richard Emuye
Director

Richard is a partner at Finmaxx Uganda Ltd where he heads Enterprise Solutions & Cyber Security. He holds a Master of Science in Data Communication & Software Engineering from Makerere University, Kampala and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Dar-es-salaam University, Tanzania. He has various certifications/ relevant Professional Development (Skills) Training in the following areas; Certified Ethical Hacking & Counter Measures, Certified Hacking Forensics Investigator, Cobit5, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), COMPTIA A+ PC SUPPORT Training, CDIA+ Electronic Document Management Essentials, Strategic and Operational Planning using Microfin Modal and Information System Development.

Mr. Emuye represents FEFISOL on the Board.

Ms. Raliat Sunmonu                                                                          

Director

Raliat has over 20 years of hands on experience in digital strategy, risk management, strategic planning, corporate governance and corporate transformations. Prior to joining Accion as the Senior Director Africa, Raliat worked with organizations like IBM, MTN and the World Bank to deliver successful engagements in areas including better, relevant products and services for underserved populations and corporate transformations

Raliat holds an Executive Master of Business Administration from INSEAD, a Master of Science in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Maryland.

Shafi Nambobi
Chief Executive Officer/ Director

Mr. Nambobi is a microfinance expert with over 19 years’ experience in microfinance with strong leadership and institutional capacity building skills. He began his career as a Credit Officer in FINCA Uganda before assuming positions of credit supervisor, branch manager and Regional Manager. Between 2002 and 2006, Mr. Nambobi was the deputy operations manager in charge of village banking and later Supervision, Policy Compliance and managing Special Projects. In 2006, he moved to Uganda Finance Trust as the Chief Manager Operations, before becoming the Chief Operating Officer for FINCA Malawi for two years. He then joined Tujijenge Tanzania under AMSCO Manager Secondment program as Managing Director/Board member prior to joining Premier Credit Uganda as Chief Executive Officer/Board member.

He joined UGAFODE Microfinance Ltd (MDI) in May 2017 as Chief Executive Officer/Board member. He has a Bachelors’ degree in Public Administration specialized in Human Resource management and development, Masters in Microfinance, Diploma in Banking Management and PGD in Financial Management.