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2012 AABLA Winners

James Mwangi

CEO, Equity Bank Business Leader of the Year

Jannie Mouton

CEO, PSG Group Entrepreneur of The Year

Funke Opeke

CEO, Main One Cable Company Business Woman of the Year

Jack Kayonga

MD, Rwanda Development Bank Young Business Leader of The Year

Manu Chandaria

Chairman, Comcraft Lifetime Achievement Award

Bharat Thakrar

CEO, Scangroup The Forbes Africa Advertising Leader of the Year

Ogilvy & Mather Africa

Forbes Africa Agency Network of the Year

2013 AABLA Winners

Michael Jordaan

CEO, First National Bank Business Leader of the Year

Mzinga Melu

MD & CEO, National Bank of Commerce Business Woman of the Year

Francis Grogan

ex: CEO, Zambeef Entrepreneur of the Year

Gachao Kiuna

CEO & MD, Trans-Century Group Young Business Leader of the Year

Dr Pascal G. Dozie

Founder & CEO, Diamond Bank Lifetime Achievement Award

2014 AABLA Winners

Asher Bohbot

CEO, Enterprise Outsourcing Holdings (EOH) Business Leader of the Year

Gil Oved and Ran Neu-Ner

Group CEOs, The Creative Counsel Young Business Leader of the Year

Fred Robertson

Executive Chairman Brimstone Investment Corporation Entrepreneur of the Year

Tabitha Karanja

Founder, Keroche Breweries Business Woman of the Year

Dr Reginald Mengi

CEO, IPP Lifetime Achievement Award

2015 AABLA Winners

Segun Agbaje

CEO & MD, GTBank Business Leader of the Year

Edha Nahdi

CEO, Amsons Group Young Business Leader of the Year

Jason Xenopoulos

CEO, Native Entrepreneur of the Year

Louisa Mojela & Gloria Serobe

Founder, WIPHOLD Business Woman of the Year

Wendy Ackerman

Trustee, The Ackerman Foundation Philanthropist of the Year

Aliko Dangote

Chairman & CEO, Dangote Group All Africa Industrialist of the Year

Wendy Appelbaum

Chairperson, De Morgenzon Estate Forbes Woman Africa Woman of the Year

Dr Christo Wiese

Businessman, Shoprite Holdings (Consumer retail) Lifetime Achievement Award

2016 AABLA Winners

Darshan Chandaria

Group CEO, Chandaria Group Young Business Leader of the Year

Sola David-Borha

Chief Executive, Stanbic IBTC Holdings Business Woman of the Year

Bright Simons

President mPedigree Network Innovator of the Year

Abdulsamad Rabiu

Founder, BUA Group Industrialist of the Year

Aliko Dangote

President, Dangote Foundation Philanthropist of the Year

Adrian Gore

CEO, Discovery Business Leader of the Year

Stephen Saad

CEO, Aspen Pharmacare Entrepreneur of the Year

Brian Joffe

CEO, Long4Life Lifetime Achievement Award

Discovery

All Africa Company of the Year

2017 AABLA Winners

OLUWATOYIN SANNI

Group CEO, United Capital PLC Business Woman of the Year

JANNIE MOUTON

Founder and Chairman, PSG Group Philanthropist of the Year

JAMES STEER

Co-Founder, I-Drop Water Innovator of the Year

HERBERT WIGWE

CEO, Access Bank PLC Business Leader of the Year

IVAN & LYNETTE SALTZMAN

Founders, Dis-Chem Pharmacies Entrepreneur of the Year

GENERAL MTHEMBU

Founder, Mthembu Tissue Converting Industrialist of the Year

DR SAMUEL MOTSUENYANE

Founder, Dr Sam Motsuenyane Rural Development Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award

ALLOYSIUS ATTAH

CEO, Farmerline Young Business Leader of the Year

Capitec Bank Holdings Ltd

Company of the Year

2018 AABLA Winners

BENJI MELTZER & JAMES PATTERSON

Co-founders, Aerobotics Innovator of the Year

Ethiopian Airlines

All Africa Company of the Year

NOMKHITHA NQWENI

CEO ABSA Wealth, Investment Management and Insurance Business Woman of the Year

PETER MOUNTFORD

CEO, Super Group Business Leader of the Year

SIR DONALD GORDON

Founder, Donald Gordon Foundation Philanthropist of the Year

THEMBA BALOYI

Founder and Executive Director, Discovery Insure Entrepreneur of the Year

Quinton Uren

MD, Jendamark Automation Industrialist of the Year

Solomon Kerzner

Founder, Southern Sun Hotel Group and Sun International Lifetime Achievement Award

His Excellency Paul Kagame

President Republic of Rwanda African of the Year

2019 AABLA Winners

MTETO NYATI

CEO, Altron Business Leader of the Year

PHUTI MAHANYELE-DABENGWA

CEO, Naspers South Africa Business Woman of the Year

OBIORA OZOR

Co-Founder, Kobo360 Innovator of the Year & Young Business Leader of the Year

Faan and Dirk van der Walt

Founder, WeBuyCars Entrepreneur of the Year

Nedbank

All Africa Company of the Year

ANDRÉ DU PLESSISS

CFO, Capitec Chief Financial Officer of the Year

MASTERCARD

Global Company of the Year

Tony Elumelu

Founder, The Tony Elumelu Foundation Philanthropist of the Year

Akinwumi Adesina

President, African Development Bank (AfDB) African of the Year

Allen Ambor

Founder, Spur Corporation Lifetime Achievement Award

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