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- Thousand workers.
- Fabric exported to Europe and the USA.
- Luxury standards. African hands. Rwandan soil.
Pink Mango : global luxury standards. Built in Rwanda.
Asantii : 12 countries. The first pan-African luxury brand to carry a continent’s name into the world’s most demanding markets.
Vogue Business 100. BOF 500. Not for fashion. For what fashion is built on.
Maryse Mbonyumutwa, INVICTAE Vice-President.
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In 1990, she was the first journalist in France to sit alone with Nelson Mandela right after his release from prison.
That is not a career milestone. That is a place in history.
Jeune Afrique, then Africa International. The oldest francophone pan-African magazine, founded in 1958. She took its direction in 1991 and never looked back.
- Journalist of the Year 1997, awarded by President Bill Clinton
- UNESCO Woman of Excellence 2001
- Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters, France
- Knight of the Order of Merit, Cameroon
- Harvard Kennedy School
Africa International Media Group, MRB Networks, Club Millenium Paris Three decades building the infrastructure through which Africa speaks to the world.
Lifetime Achievement Award, All Africa Media Leaders Summit, Nairobi 2024.
Marie-Roger Biloa, INVICTAE Honorary Member
HSBC, Banque, Assurance. Two decades learning how performance is built from the inside.
In 2022, she founded CT Consulting.
Not a pivot, a decision. Because she understood something most miss : organizations do not underperform by accident.
They underperform by default. And defaults can be redesigned.
Carmen Thiam , INVICTAE Ambassador
He did not leave finance. He rebuilt it from the inside out.
Africa holds 45% of the world’s gold deposits. Yet its people remain among the least able to access it. That contradiction was not acceptable to him.
Africa 2.0: a pan-African civil society that helped shape the framework 47 African Heads of State ratified to define Agenda 2063
Ubuntu Tribe: gold, tokenized, accessible from $1, backed and regulated The missing rails between Africa’s resources and its people
- Forbes Top 10 Most Influential Men in Africa, 2014
- WEF Young Global Leader
- Top 30 Global Blockchain Influencers, 2020
- MIT Sloan, Harvard Kennedy School
He is not building a fintech company. He is building a new financial architecture for a continent that has always owned the gold and rarely owned its value.
Mamadou Kwidjim Toure – INVICTAE HeForShe
Paris. Geneva. Zurich. Ten years advising multinationals, governments and law firms on compliance, governance and the architecture of trust.
Then he built a stage where the word becomes the weapon.
Choc des Légendes: launched in 2018 at the French National Assembly
5 editions, 40+ nationalities, 2,000+ participants Heads of State, ministers, CEOs, intellectuals One conviction: ideas that cannot be argued cannot be defended.
Togolese and German, based in Zurich, he does not sit between Africa and the world, he builds the bridge, then invites both sides to cross it.
Pascal Gally – INVICTAE Ambassador
Unilever, Colgate-Palmolive, Nedbank, Brand South Africa The 2010 World Cup, World Economic Forum Davos Then the Mo Ibrahim Foundation.
Each stop a deeper understanding of how Africa is built, financed and narrated at a global level.
In 2022, she co-founded MwunganoESG, The first pan-African ESG specialist consultancy. Because she understood that sustainable investment needs more than good intentions. It needs architecture.
- Kgommuu International : blue economy, circular economy, inclusive industrialisation
- The World Ocean Council : Southern and East Africa Top 100 Most Influential People of African Descent under 40.
Sophie Masipa , INVICTAE Vice President
In 1996, his job was gone overnight.The military had taken power, foreign companies had left.
He did not leave with them. From a room slightly bigger than a cupboard, trading excess fuel from Port Harcourt and Warri refineries, three young Nigerians built what no one thought they could.
Sahara Group: 38 countries, 4,000 people, $11 billion in annual turnover Oil, gas, power, infrastructure 100% indigenously built, competing on the global stage.
- WEF Global Advisory Council on Energy
- UN SDG Private Sector Advisory Group
- Presidential Council on Sustainable Development Goals
- World Bank Expert Advisory Council on Citizen Engagement
He walked away from all of it in 2018 to serve his state.
Because building an empire was not enough… He wanted to build a nation
Tonye Cole – INVICTAE Patron
PwC. NamibRe. The Africa Insurance Organization. Three institutions. One standard.
As Managing Director of NamibRe, she delivered. As President of the AIO, she set the continental agenda.
As Co-Chair of the UNEP-FI Global Steering Committee, she sat where capital decisions are made.
Southern Africa does not wait. Neither does she.
Patty Karuaihe-Martin – INVICTAE Vice-Présidente Southern Africa
Some protect what others build. Some build what others cannot protect. Dr. Divine Simbi-Ndhlukula belongs to neither. She built both.
SECURICO : born from 4 people, a gap in the market,and a refusal to accept mediocrity as a standard. Today, +4000 professionals. Zimbabwe’s first ISO certified security company.
The largest private employer of women in the country.
And then the land.2,300 hectares at Zvikomborero Farms.Cattle. Goats. Horticulture.Grand Champion – Harare Agricultural Show. Not a side project. A second conquest.
Excellence is her start.
Dr. Divine Simbi-Ndhlukula – INVICTAE Honorary Member
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African Champion.
- Founder and CEO of @telcarcocoa Ltd, a company she built over 30 years, controlling over 30% of Cameroon’s cocoa exports.
- Founder of cocoa certification initiatives in Cameroon, organizing farmers into cooperatives to elevate quality and empower local communities.
- Strategic shareholder in @ecobankcameroun .
- Winner of the Sufawe Trophy in 2019.
- Honored as the Economic Personality of 2020.
- Dedicated advocate to female entrepreneurship.
- @forbes – Richest woman in Francophone Africa, 2016.
Her impact is far from over.
She did not theorize about the future of leadership. She built it.
Harvard, Investec, Arcelor, Mittal, American Tower. Not a career. A construction.
Today, IAMS Powerhouse operates where it matters most :the intersection of strategy, culture and transformation.
Digital. AI. Change. At continental scale.
South Africa at the Global Entrepreneur Festival, 2024.
Some build companies. She builds continents of possibility.
Where Abidjan needed infrastructure for 10,000 delegates from 196 nations, she delivered. Where Africa demanded stadiums, she constructed. COP15. CAN 2023. Real estate that shapes policy, not just skylines.
What sets Mariame Diaby apart is access. Ministries across West Africa. International bodies making billion-dollar decisions.
She does not knock on doors. She is the door.
Mariame Diaby, INVICTAE Vice-President
UNESCO. Jeune Afrique Media Group. Sciences Po. Not a career in the margins. A career at the center of how Africa is told, built and led.
As Africa Development Manager at one of the world’s leading political science institutions, she does not observe the continent. She shapes how it is understood globally.
Elsa & Felicity : her own construction, on her own terms.
Coralie Lolliot – INVICTAE Vice-Présidente Africa
Premier. Minister of Finance, Minister of Economic Development, Ambassador, Mayor, President. Not titles.
A trajectory of power built institution by institution,decision by decision, across two decades.
KwaZulu-Natal. South Africa. The African Union. Prague. The scope was never local.
H.E. Nomusda Dube-Ncube – INVICTAE Honorary Member
Not a milestone. A standard set from scratch. 25 years. Fechkeur Laboratory. RedMed Group.
Science, healthcare, infrastructure.Built with precision, not permission.
Dr. Yasmina Fechkeur – INVICTAE Vice-Présidente North Africa
Citibank. BNP Paribas. ABSA Capital. Ecobank. UBA. The architecture of a continent’s financial system, built from the inside.
Groupe Cofina : inclusive finance at scale, where the system had left gaps. Neemba Group : a new construction, on his own terms.
Banker of the Year. Builder of the African Economy. Ivory Coast’s highest national distinctions.
Not accolades. Confirmation.
Jean-Luc Konan – INVICTAE HeForShe
Commonwealth Bank, MLC, global investment banking. Not a career built on returns alone.
He carries one conviction through all of it : financial success and social impact are not a trade-off.
GPN Vaccines, Aionious, Impact Rooms Health, longevity, African investment infrastructure Capital deployed where it is needed most.
- Global Chairman, International Association of Investment Bankers
- Top Tier Impact, UN World Food Forum judge
- Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries, University of Cape Town
Barry Palte – INVICTAE HeForShe
He did not enter banking to manage money. He entered to build systems where there were none.
Amity Bank, LOITA Capital Partners, Banque Continentale Africaine Rwanda.
Then Emerging Capital Partners : $3 billion raised and invested across Africa.
The full private equity cycle, completed.
Today : Oragroup, the largest banking group in Francophone Africa 12 countries, 4 currency zones, $3.7 billion balance sheet.
He restructured what needed restructuring. Digitized what needed to move faster. And kept one conviction at the center: banking exists to serve those building the continent.
Ferdinand Ngon – INVICTAE HeForShe
Côte d’Ivoire, India, Netherlands, North America, South Africa. The world as a training ground, Africa as the mission.
Today his work is clear : 5 in 10 women diagnosed with breast cancer in sub-Saharan Africa do not survive. He is building the system to change that number.
Kenya, Nigeria, Côte d’Ivoire, Tunisia Diagnosis infrastructure, reimbursement frameworks, digital patient pathways. Not charity, Architecture.
“Investing in health is investing in Africa’s people, its potential, and its promise.“
Maturin Tchoumi – INVICTAE HeForShe
Cameroon. Paris. Los Angeles. Dallas. Not a trajectory. A construction.
At 20, he moved to California to study neuroscience at its source UCLA, David Geffen School of Medicine, neurotrauma fellowship Then Wisconsin, Mississippi, and finally Texas Where he built his own practice from scratch.
- Triple board-certified neurosurgeon
- D Magazine Best Doctors, 11 consecutive years
- Best Spine Surgeon, Living Magazine, 11 consecutive years
- Less than 1% of neurosurgeons hold his level of certification
In 2016, he co-founded the Brain Project Africa Foundation. Two weeks a year in Africa : complex brain and spine surgery, equipment, mentorship.
Because excellence, in his view, has no reason to stop at a border.
Dr. Jean-Louis Bénaé – INVICTAE HeForShe