Rudo Mudavanhu

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Rudo Mudavanhu
Occupation
  • Acting CEO
Known forBeing the acting CEO of Africom

Rudo Mudavanhu is a Zimbabwean business executive and the current acting chief executive officer (CEO) for Africom.

Education

She went into ICT straight from school and started as a programmer. [1]

Career

She was appointed Africom's acting ceo after founder Kwanayi Kashangura, stepped down from the converged communication service provider, effective February 1, 2016. She had previously held the position of chief operating officer.[2]

In Africom she has been a team in Project Management. She also led the Sales & Marketing Team and the revenue growth team. She has worked in Africom in various capacities managing projects selling solutions, growing the business and was at one time the sitting Chief for revenue strategies and business growth. She was also actively working in the resuscitation of City of Harare Highlands Library through the use of technology. [1]


Awards

  • ICT Businesswoman of the year award winner(2010) [1]

Scandals

She was involved in a scandal where senior employees at Africom siphoned money by awarding themselves personal and housing loans.A draft status audit reported produced by accounting firm, Ernst &Young showed that Africom had set up a housing scheme for some of its employees, this despite denials on the existence of a such a facility by some employees. The audit report also discovered that a proposal for the FBC housing scheme was only deliberated upon by the Afriocm Renumeration and Nomination Committee on March 4 2011. This was well after the payments of two housing loans for five Africom employees among them Mudavanhu who received a loan on December 18 2009.

She told auditors that while she was aware of there were funds deposited, she was however not aware of the details concerning the amount as she was not in agreement with the transaction and was not consulted before the transfer was made.[3]


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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 ICT 2010 Achievers Awards Businesswoman of the Year: Rudo Mudavanhu, Techzim, published: December 10, 2010, retrieved: April 10, 2017
  2. Africom CEO pushed out?, Financial Gazette, published: March 3, 2016, retrieved: April 10, 2017
  3. How Africom employees siphoned money, NewsDay, published: November 3, 2011, retrieved: April 10, 2017


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