source: Africa.com In a major virtual summit with over 1,000 high-level attendees, Africa.com revealed the names of the 50 most senior women in Corporate Africa. The Africa.com Definitive List of Women CEOs is distinguished in that it is data-driven. The researchers started by working with data provided by Bloomberg and evaluating the over 1,400 companies listed on the 24 African stock exchanges.
The list yielded many more women from South Africa than any other African country, followed by Nigeria and Kenya. The finance sector had more women CEOs than any other sector, followed closely by technology. Africa.com Managing Director Laura Joseph said, “FIve companies had more than one woman on the list: Bidvest, Microsoft, Old Mutual, Sonatel, and Sanlam.”
The methodology includes three sections:
> CEOs of African exchange-listed companies with a market cap over $150 million USD;
division heads of African exchange-listed companies, where the division itself would be valued at over $150 million, were it standalone; and
Africa region heads, or country heads, of globally listed companies with a market cap of over $50 billion.
Africa.com Chair and Executive Editor Teresa Clarke said, “The list has started a movement to give African women something larger to aspire to: running a large, complex business – not just SMEs as is often the focus of women in business.” The Africa.com 2021 Definitive List of Women CEOs Rank Name Title Company Country Stock Exchange Market Cap 1 Natascha Viljoen CEO Anglo American Platinum South Africa Johannesburg Stock Exchange $37.6 billion USD 2 Mpumi Madisa CEO / Executive Director Bidvest Group South Africa Johannesburg Stock Exchange $3.6 billion USD 3 Lizé Lambrechts CEO / Executive Director Santam South Africa Johannesburg Stock Exchange $1.9 billion USD 4 Miriam Olusanya Managing Director Guaranty Trust Bank Ltd Nigeria Nigeria Stock Exchange $1.4 billion USD 5 Jane Karuku Group Managing Director and CEO East African Breweries Ltd Kenya Nairobi Stock Exchange $1.2 billion USD 6 Helena Conradie CEO Satrix 40 South Africa Johannesburg Stock Exchange $650 million USD 7 Leila Fourie CEO JSE South Africa Johannesburg Stock Exchange $640 million USD 8 Ruth Zaipuna CEO NMB Bank Tanzania Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange $505 million USD 9 Nathalie Alquier CEO Centrale Danone Morocco Casablanca Stock Exchange $500 million USD 10 Catherine Lesetedi Group Chief Executive Officer Botswana Insurance Holdings Botswana Botswana Stock Exchange $445 million USD 11 Mansa Nettey Chief Executive Standard Chartered Bank Ghana Ghana Stock […]