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Believe Begin Become’s Organizing Committee (OC) serves as an advisory board to the TechnoServe team on all aspects of the design and management of the programme. The committee is made up of outstanding Tanzanian business people who embody the characteristics and accomplishments of a successful entrepreneur. TechnoServe Tanzania’s Country Director, Hillary Miller-Wise and the University of Dar es Salaam’s Entrepreneurship Center''s Dr. Donath Olomi, are both proud to serve as members of the committee.
The insights and support of the committee are instrumental in the success and sustainability of Believe Begin Become. The committee meets regularly and members attend all major events throughout the program. Believe Begin Become’s management team is thankful for the commitment and passion shown by the 2008 Organizing Committee members to “Helping Entrepreneurs Grow Thriving Businesses.”
Deus Manyenye
Head of Retail Performance, Barclays Bank
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Deus Manyenye is currently employed as Head of Retail Performance with Barclays Bank Tanzania Limited. Barclays established operations in Tanzania in 2000, and caters to both corporate and retail clients, providing financial and business advisory services. Barclays is among a few banks in the country that has specific package for SMEs, which includes quarterly seminars, business events, business trips, as well as access to the bank’s Business Development Managers. Under Mr. Manyenye’s tutelage, the bank has repositioned itself to provide expanded services to SMEs. At present, Barclays has a large number of SME customers and recently won a TCCIA’s recognition for supporting SMEs in the country. Barclays has the ambition to expand its branch network five times of its current foot prints and aimed at tripling the number of its employees in 2007.
Mr. Manyenye has extensive financial sector experience. Prior to his current position, he worked as Barclay’s Business Development Manager, where he had an opportunity to attract over 100 new SME customers monthly. Before joining Barclays Bank in October 2004, he worked for 5 years with Standard Chartered Bank where he held different positions including but not limited to Head of Retail Credit, Business Relationship Manager, and Head of SMEs . Other Banks that he has worked include Akiba Commercial Bank and International Bank of Malaysia; currently know as International Commercial Bank Limited.
Mr. Manyenye holds a degree in Economics and Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration from Aligarh Muslim University and the Institute of Health Care Management, Madras in India.
Mr. Manyenye’s top insights for participants and future entrepreneurs in Tanzania are as follows:
1. Believe in business ideas.
2. Nurture these ideas, develop and make them reality.
3. Take business challenges positively and regard them as motivators and not barriers.
4. Embed business professionalism in all business dealings and always aim high.
5. Conduct the business with high level of transparency, trust, diligence and be able to spot business opportunities all the time.
Olive Luena
General Manager and CEO, Tanzania Gatsby Trust
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Olive Luena is the General Manager and CEO of Tanzania Gatsby Trust, a charitable trust that aims to improve the productive potential of the informal sector and build the capacity of small and medium sized enterprises. Mrs. Luena joined TGT in 1995 as its first CEO and has built the trust from its inception to stimulate and support entrepreneurship, action oriented advocacy and lobbying, the production and use of knowledge and resource mobilization in order to achiee economic and social advancement.
Prior to starting the Tanzania Gatsby Trust, Mrs. Luena spent over 20 years at Tanganyika Plastics Ltd. before pursuing a career in the non-profit sector. She is an active member of society and is the co-chair and board member of the East African Grantmakers Association (EAAG), a trustee of UFADHILI (the East Africa Centre for phillanthropy). She was also the founding Secretary General (1988-1995) of the Tanzanian Association of NGOs (Umbrella organization of NGOs in Tanzania), the international President of the World Conference of Religion and Peace (1994-1998) and 1998/1999 Nominee for the Africa Hunger Prize. Mrs. Luena is an Eisenhower Fellow, a fellow of the Johns Hopkins University and was appointed by His Holiness Pope John Paul 11 as a member of the Vatican Pontifical Council of the Laity for a period of five years in 1990.
Mrs. Luena holds a degree in Industrial Management, a Post Graduate Diploma in Industrial Management, a diploma in Personnel Management, and has also been trained at the postgraduate level at Cranfield School of Management in the UK in enterprise development, and the Economic Institute at Boulder Colorado in USA in Microfinance. She is actively engaged in promoting Social justice and philanthropy both at local and International levels. She is a Widow with three children of her own while also bringing up four orphans.
Mrs. Luena’s top 5 insights for participants and future entrepreneurs in Tanzania are as follows:
1. Be Entrepreneurial minded and dare to dream: all businesses in the world were initially someone’s dream.
2. Look for entrepreneurship opportunities and seize them
3. Once you have an opportunity develop a plan to implement it
4. Work hard to achieve your plan
5. In whatever you do, perseverance will ultimately pay off.
Joseph Kusaga
Founder and Managing Director, Clouds Media Group
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Joseph Kusaga is the Founder and CEO of three radio stations, a magazine, two music venues and a promotion company. Clouds FM, his first venture into broadcast media, is the second most-listened to radio station in Tanzania. It is Tanzania’s first radio station expressly devoted to entertainment and accompanied by an interactive presentation style. Mr. Kusaga runs Primetime Promotions, the number one entertainment event management company in Tanzania, which has successfully planned and executed top-notch international music events and local shows each year. In 2006, Primetime was responsible for bring international artists Jay-Z, Ja Rule and Shaggy to perform in Dar es Salaam. This year, Mr. Kusaga is planning to launch Clouds TV, Tanzania’s first entertainment-oriented TV station.
In addition to his extremely accomplished career, Mr. Kusaga has also founded a number of discotheques, and in 2000, he established the first digital music recording studio in Tanzania. He manages the Smooth Vibes record label in Dar and is responsible for authorizing music from Tanzanian artists for itunes.
When he is not busy with his various media projects, Mr. Kusaga enjoys traveling, music and learning about new technologies.
Tumaini Mlewa
Managing Director, Fame Consolidated Services Co. Ltd
Maria Sarungi
Director of Production, Compass Communications
Godfrey Mramba
Managing Director/Vice President, COEUR Tanzania
Dr. Donath Olomi
University of Dar es Salaam’s Entrepreneurship Center
Hillary Miller-Wise
Country Director, TechnoServe Tanzania
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