2019 Archbishop Desmond Tutu Leadership Fellow Simbarashe Mhuriro has recently been appointed to the Board of Stanbic Bank Zimbabwe as a Non-Executive Director. The Standard Bank Group, of which Stanbic Bank Zimbabwe is a member, is the largest African banking group. It has a presence in 20 different countries. Mhuriro is the founder and managing director of Oxygen Africa, which is a Zimbabwean investment company with interests in precious metals, renewable energy, and agriculture. Sincee 2013, Oxygen Africa has been committed to developing utility scale power plants, industrial rooftop, and commercial solar photovoltaic projects.
Simbarashe was appointed to the board in May of this year.
Along with being a 2019 Archbishop Desmond Tutu African Leadership Fellow, Mhuriro is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Entrepreneurship for the 2018 – 2019 term, and the Shared Value Africa Initiative’s Africa Council of Eight. In 2016 and in 2018, he was named as one of Africa’s 30 most promising young entrepreneurs in Forbes Magazine.
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