Panel of Judges

The judges for the CFO Awards are extremely experienced in the field of business and finance and are highly regarded by the CFO community. The panel consist of industry leaders working for East Africa's leading universities, banks, advisory, IT and law firms, as well as former CFO Awards winners.

- Find out more about the judging process.

Andrew Ssekamwa

CCO, Movit Products

Carol Musyoka

Chief Provocateur CMCL

Daniel Ngumy

Managing Partner, ALN Kenya


Dr. Neema Kiure

Partner - EY Tanzania


Fiona Nuwamanya

ACCA CFO of the Year 2023


George Odenyo

CEO, American Tower


Hanif Jaffer

Founder and Director, Exim Bank Tanzania & Uganda


Prof James McFie

Senior lecturer Strathmore University Business School


John Bugunya

Former CFO of Bank of Kigali & CIMERWA Cement


Josephine Ossiya

CEO, Capital Markets Authority of Uganda


Julian Kayibanda

Strategy Director, ICPAR


Kinya Kimotho

Former FD - Diageo Emerging Markets


Lina Ratansi

Owner, RSM Tanzania


Miriam Kaggwa

COO - WPP Scangroup


Mkombozi Karake

Chairman, KMD Rwanda


Nelson Rwihula

MD, UAP Insurance Tanzania


Prof. Samuel Sejjaaka

Principal, Mat Abacus Business School


Shereena Wilson

Former CFO East African Power

Judging process

Interviews

In April and May, CFO East Africa will interview all nominated CFOs to get a clear picture of his or her drive, motivation, vision and results. Each of the judges are present during at least two of the interviews, which will also be attended by a member of staff from CFO East Africa. The confidential reports of these interviews will be added to the dossier of each CFO and will be used by the judges to determine their individual votes. The dossier also contains a full profile description of the nominee combined with all relevant background information such as the candidate's CV.

The goal of the interview is to get insight in the CFO’s involvement in the overall success of the company and the way he or she has distinguished himself or herself. To help structure the interview, there is a standard set of interview questions as a guideline.

Each CFO has to answer four basic questions in four compulsory categories:

  • Strategy Execution
  • Finance Transformation
  • High Performance Team
  • Compliance & Governance

Each CFO also has to answer four basic questions in one of the following elective categories:

  • Beyond Finance
  • Finance & ESG
  • Finance & Technology

There are no specific sets of questions for the overall categories Public Impact/Young CFO of the Year. The votes for the specific categories will be tallied to determine who wins the Public Impact, Young & CFO of the Year Award.

Your votes please

In the second week of April, the panel of judges will receive the dossiers. Judges will be asked to score each CFO on the short list on a scale from 1 to 10 in the category they are eligible for. By adding up all the points the winners are determined for each award category.

What happens in the case of a tie?

In case of a tie in one of the award categories, the nominee who receives the highest score in the CFO of the Year vote wins the award in that category. If there is still a tie, the nominee who scores highest in most of the four compulsory categories wins. If there is still a tie, the judges will be asked to vote for one of the tied nominees in a second round.