Executive Matters

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  • Connect with stories of top executives across Africa and be inspired.
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Episodes
  • Prioritizing Building a Strong and Resilient Competent Team Above All - Khaled El Dokani, Country CEO of Lafarge Africa Plc

    Prioritizing Building a Strong and Resilient Competent Team Above All - Khaled El Dokani, Country CEO of Lafarge Africa Plc
    Sep 11 2020
    Khaled El Dokani is the Country CEO of Lafarge Africa Plc. Prior to his appointment, he was the Country CEO of Iraq, a role he took over in March 2018. While in Iraq, he provided leadership which increased the productivity and efficiency of Iraq. He graduated from the University of Alexandria in Egypt (1989) with a bachelor's degree in commerce & accounting and obtained a “Certified Public Accountant” title in Delaware, USA (1998).  He started his career at Coopers & Lybrand Deloitte in the Sultanate of Oman as Audit Manager (1992). He joined the American Company in Egypt as Finance Manager (1997).  In 1999, Khaled El Dokani was assigned as Chief Financial Officer in the company Diamond Bort based in Belgium, having the responsibility for the whole Middle East operations. He joined the Cyber Center Egypt as CFO (2002) that is a JV of HP and Egyptian IT Corporate. He joined Lafarge Algeria in 2004 as Country CFO. He continued his career in the Group as VP – Business Development & Strategy at Lafarge RMX & Aggregate Operations in Eastern Canada & Eastern USA (2010-2013). In 2013, Khaled El Dokani was assigned as Country General Manager for Lafarge Saudi Arabia RMX & Aggregate and Gypsum operations. Following the merger of Lafarge and Holcim Groups in 2015, he was assigned as Country General Manager in Qatar, responsible for Cement, RMX, and Aggregates operations.

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    10 mins
  • A Leader in the Newsroom and the Boardroom - Frank Aigbogun, Founder/Editor BusinessDay Media

    A Leader in the Newsroom and the Boardroom - Frank Aigbogun, Founder/Editor BusinessDay Media
    Sep 11 2020
    Frank Aigbogun is a journalist and publisher of BusinessDay newspaper, which he founded in 2001. He began his journalism career at the Guardian in 1982 and moved on to Vanguard where he rose to the position of editor of all the titles of the newspaper. Mr. Aigbogun served for many years as the Lagos correspondent of the Associated Press, AP the world’s largest independent news agency.
    Mr. Aigbogun who first studied Mass Communication is an alumnus of the Lagos Business School. He was appointed by then military government into the vision 2010 committee tasked with drawing up a long term economic vision for the country and he served as deputy leader and alternate rapporteur for the sub-committee on competition and deregulation.
    It was while he worked on the vision 2010 project along with the elite of Nigeria’s business community that Mr. Aigbogun was inspired to launch what is today Nigeria’s first and only daily financial and business newspaper. BusinessDay is Nigeria’s only major newspaper with a pluralized shareholding and boasts of a solid corporate governance structure. The newspaper maintains content partnerships with the Financial Times, the Economist as well as the Harvard Business Review.
    Today Mr. Aigbogun serves as a director of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group, NESG and he also chairs the board of the Constitutional Rights Project, a leading human rights and advocacy group.

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    16 mins
  • An Agenda to Change the Outlook of Cloud & Digital Solution in Nigeria - Valentine Chime, MD Inq. Digital Limited

    An Agenda to Change the Outlook of Cloud & Digital Solution in Nigeria - Valentine Chime, MD Inq. Digital Limited
    Sep 8 2020
    Valentine Chime is the Managing Director, inq. Digital Nigeria Limited. Before this role, he had held various C-suite positions in several portfolio companies in different sectors. Valentine worked at Aruwa Capital; a private equity company, which invests across West Africa.
    Before joining Aruwa Capital, Valentine was at Kaizen Venture Partners; a private equity company focused on distressed assets.
    He has a B.Sc., Actuarial Science from the University of Lagos (Nigeria).

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    9 mins

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