Founder

Mr. Ali Mufuruki

Former Chairman & CEO, Infotech Investment Group LTD of Tanzania.
Mr. Ali Mufuruki was a well-known Tanzanian businessman, author, founder and board member of several organizations. He not only founded IIG, but was the founding chairman of the CEO Rountable in Tanzania, and the Africa Leadership Initiative (ALI) East Africa.
“Ali A. Mufuruki was a Tanzanian entrepreneur, philanthropist, public speaker and leadership coach.”

He co-founded and was chairman of the CEO Roundtable of Tanzania, a policy dialogue forum that brings together more than 100 CEOs of leading companies in Tanzania. This group engages regularly with the senior government leadership of Tanzania to find solutions for the country’s economy.

He was also the owner, Chairman & CEO of Infotech Investment Group LTD, a family business that has interests in ICT, media, telecoms, private equity, retail and real estate across a number of countries in Africa and beyond.

Mr. Ali Mufuruki served as Chairman of the Boards of Msingi LTD (Kenya), Legacy Capital Partners Ltd (Tanzania); Trademark East Africa (Kenya) and Chai Bora Ltd (Tanzania).

He also served as Director on the boards of BlueTown Holdings Ltd (Denmark) and AMSCO (Netherlands).

He previously sat on the Board of the Tanzania Central Bank where he was elected the first ever independent chairman of the Audit Committee.

He also served on the Board of Directors of Technoserve, Inc. of Washington, DC and Nation Media Group of Kenya.

Mr. Mufuruki graduated with a B.Sc. in Mechanical Design Engineering from Reutlingen University, Germany in 1986.