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Equity Bank Chief Executive Officer James Mwangi was named Africa’s
Innovation Leader of the Year Prize by the African Investor (Ai), a leading
international investment and communications group during a World Bank Annual
Meeting held in Tokyo, Japan.
Mwangi who was recently appointed to the Global Agenda Council on New Economic Thinking (a council of the World Economic Forum) and received an invitation to be a council member at the G8 New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, was earlier in the year named the 2012 Ernest and Young World Entrepreneur of the Year.
East Africa’s largest bank in asset base, Kenya Commercial
Bank (KCB) scooped the African Investor Bank of the Year Award.
Nairobi Java House-ECP
Deal named Venture Capital Private Equity Deal of the Year
The multi-million dollar deal struck between Nairobi Java
House and Washington D.C-based Emerging Capital Partners (ECP) where the US
private equity fund acquired majority stake, bagged the African Investor Deal
of the Year Award.
Java, co-founded by Kevin Ashley and John Wagner sold 90
percent of its stake to ECP earlier this year in a deal made public but the
transacted amount was undisclosed.
Other Awardees
include:
Phuti Mahanyele, CEO of Shanduka – Leading Africa Woman in
Business of the Year
Brian Molefe, CEO of Transnet – African Business Leader of
the Year
Jay Ireland, President and CEO of GE Africa – International
Business Leader of the Year
Admassu Tadesse, CEO of PTA Bank – Up and Coming Future
Leader of the Year
Xavier Luc Duval, Minister of Finance of Mauritius – Finance
Minister of the Year
Phatisa – Investment Climate Initiative of the Year
National Empowerment Fund – Best Initiative in Support of
SMEs and the Millennium Development Goals
Nedbank – Carbon Finance Initiative of the Year
SABMiller – Employer and Human Capital Investor of the Year
Botswana Public Officers Pension Fund – Institutional
Investor of the Year
Board of Investment Mauritius – Investment Promotion Agency
of the Year
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