Dr. Shivon Byamukama, Company Secretary & Head of Corporate Affairs - Bank of Kigali

She is the Company Secretary/ Head of Corporate Affairs Department. Shivon has worked with the International Criminal Court at The Hague. She holds a PhD in Law from Glasgow Caledonian University, a Diploma in Legal Practice from the Law Development Centre (LDC) Uganda and a Bachelor of Laws from Makerere University, Uganda.

Lucy Mbabazi, Emerging Market Solutions at Visa

In the past she served as the Policy and Strategy Advisor to the Head of ICT Department, Rwanda Development Board (RDB/ICT). She attended Harvard University Kennedy School of Government were she attained a Masters of Public Policy, Public Policy before she studied at Laroche College and graduated with a Bachelor of Science, Information Technology and Management.

Yvonne Manzi Makolo, Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) - MTN Rwanda

Before the CMO position she was the Sales & Marketing Manager at MTN.  Before joining MTN Rwanda, she was the National Technical Coordinator at World Links (a project of the World Bank). She holds a Bachelors in  Environmental Science from McGill University in Canada as well as Post Graduate Diploma in Applied Information Technology with a focus on E-Business.

Alphosine Niyigena, proprietor of Universal Beauty Academy

Besides Universal Beauty Academy (UBA) being the first of its kind in the country, its proprietor Niyigena has held several positions in the Private Sector, including owning a consultancy firm. Before worked at the Auditor General‘s office.  She was the first Vice Chairperson of the Private Sector Federation as well as the Vice Chairperson of the East African Business Council.

She attained a Bachelors in Economics at Kigali Independent University and a Masters in Finance at Maastricht School of Business in the Netherlands.