Original Story Published by: Abdue Rahman Alfa Shaban for AfricaNews
Rwanda’s national carrier, RwandAir, has a substantive Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in the person of Yvonne Manzi Makolo.
Her appointment by President Paul Kagame was part of a cabinet reshuffle announced on Saturday. Until her elevation to the top seat, Makolo was the airline’s Deputy CEO in charge of Corporate Affairs.
Her appointment fills a vacancy that forced government to appoint Col. Chance Ndagano as Acting CEO following the departure of John Mirenge.
Makolo has previously worked in the private sector since returning to Rwanda from Canada where she lived and worked for a decade – she worked in IT as an application / web developer.
“I decided to move to Rwanda in 2003 where I worked with a World Bank project; an NGO called World Links, to computerize schools and train teachers on how to use computers. I joined MTN in 2006,” she told The New Times, a local daily in 2016.
She rose through the ranks at MTN-Rwanda to the position of Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) at a point serving as acting CEO.
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