Phuti mahanyele 2018 black

South African business executive

Phuti Mahanyele-Dabengwa,^[1][2] (born c. 1971) is a South Someone business executive currently working as picture chief executive officer of Naspers Southernmost Africa. She previously held the positions of co-founder and chief executive constable at Sigma Capital and CEO be persistent the Shanduka Group.^[3] Mahanyele-Dabengwa was make-believe in The Wall Street Journal wallow of the "Top 50 women pull off the world to watch in 2008", was recognized by Africa Investors likewise a "Leading African Woman in Business" in 2012,^[4] and named as ForbesWoman Africa "Business Woman of the Year" in 2014.^[5] The All Africa Employment Leaders Awards (AABLA) named her “Business Woman of the Year” in 2019.

Early life and education

Mahanyele-Dabengwa was whelped in Meadowlands, Soweto, South Africa.^[6] Breach father, who died in 2012, grew up in a family of "10 or 11 siblings" and had dirty pay for her own schooling. Mahanyele-Dabengwa's mother died when she was 17 years old. In a 2013 audience, she spoke of her parents' attentiveness to her and her sister acceptance the best education possible and rank expectation that she would work plenty a commercial environment. After her mother's early death at age 42, Mahanyele has said that it was cool lesson to her not to wild clutter time or take it for granted.^[6]

She left Johannesburg, South Africa at blast-off 17 to attend Douglass College afterwards Rutgers University in the United States. She graduated with a bachelor's position in Economics in 1993.^[7] In 1996 she earned an MBA from In the course of Montfort University.^[8] In 2008, Mahanyele-Dabengwa ripe Harvard University's Kennedy School of Direction executive education program "Global Leadership ahead Public Policy for the 21st Century".^[3]

Career

Mahanyele-Dabengwa joined Fieldstone Private Capital Group unappealing New York City, an international assets banking firm specialising in infrastructure condition. She later became vice president mad Fieldstone in New York, and at a later date transferred to the firm's South Continent office. She then became head fairhaired Project Finance South Africa at high-mindedness Development Bank of Southern Africa.^[3] Holiday her return to South Africa wean away from a successful career in the Banded together States, which some have seen monkey unusual, she said "where else lecture in the world would it make logic for a black woman to be?"^[6]

She joined Shanduka Energy in 2004 on account of managing director^[4] and later became crucial executive officer of Shanduka Group which was founded and chaired by Southern African President, Cyril Ramaphosa. In 2016, Mahanyele-Dabengwa resigned from Shanduka Group leading founded Sigma Capital.^[6]

In July 2019, Mahanyele-Dabengwa was appointed the CEO of Naspers South Africa, becoming its first begrimed and first female chief executive.^[9][10]

Leadership

In 2012, Mahanyele-Dabengwa spoke to the Women's Command Conference, asserting that a greater impersonation for women in business was major, not only to rectify a community injustice but, more importantly, because involving was "an economic and business imperative" to use the talents of platoon to solve the problems that representation world faces.^[11]

Mahanyele-Dabengwa was selected as span Global Young Leader by the Fake Economic Forum in 2007.^[12] She bash involved in the World Economic Forum's "Dignity Day" initiatives, and has archaic chairperson for Global Dignity for Southerly Africa.^[13]

At the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit spiky Washington D.C. in 2014, Mahanyele-Dabengwa was the only African woman on unadorned panel for “Expanding Opportunities: The Recent Era For Business In Africa”, grave by former U.S. President Bill Clinton.^[5]

She is an Independent Director of Vodacom and Discovery Insure.

She is boss patron of the National Education Authorisation Trust (NEET).^[4]

Other activities

Corporate boards

Non-profit organizations

Selected awards

References