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The Journey of Adaeze Okonkwo: Building a Logistics Network Across Fourteen Markets
The Kestrel Logistics founder started with three trucks and a spreadsheet. She now moves freight across fourteen African and Gulf markets, and she still reviews the routing exceptions herself every Monday.
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WEVN's quarterly list recognises decisions, not reputations. Each leader below made a verifiable move between July and September 2026 that says something about where business in Africa and the Middle East is heading.
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Top 10 Leaders Shaping Global Business in 2026
Our annual roundup of the executives whose decisions this year will still be visible in their industries in five. Selected by the WEVN editorial desk for operating judgement rather than profile.
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Top 10 Technology Operators to Watch This Year
Not the founders with the largest rounds. The operators quietly making the infrastructure, governance and deployment decisions that the rest of their sectors will copy within two years.
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Rafael Mendoza on Why His Company Stopped Buying AI and Started Building Constraints
The Meridian Data chief technology officer spent two years approving pilots that never reached production. His fix was not a better model. It was a rule about what a pilot has to prove before it gets a second cheque.
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Hannah Lindqvist Took Over a Company Mid-Crisis. Her First Decision Was to Stop Deciding.
Appointed chief executive of Norvind Industrial four days after her predecessor resigned, Lindqvist spent her first three weeks refusing to announce a strategy. She explains why the silence was the strategy.
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Devika Raman Built a Lender for Businesses the Models Kept Rejecting
Traditional credit scoring told her lending firm that half its applicants were uncreditworthy. Raman's team went and looked at the businesses themselves, and found the model was measuring the wrong decade.
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Tomas Albrecht Runs Three Companies. He Also Protects Four Hours a Day Nobody Can Book.
The chairman of a family-owned industrial holding group is candid that his calendar discipline is not a wellness practice. It is the only reason he can hold three boards without becoming, in his words, a very expensive bottleneck.
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The Nigerian credit infrastructure company is using an acquisition, not a greenfield launch, to enter East Africa.
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The Johannesburg fintech, founded in 2023, is financing devices for customers that traditional credit checks tend to miss.
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10 Leaders Who Made Defining Moves in Emerging Markets This Quarter
WEVN's quarterly list recognises decisions, not reputations. Each leader below made a verifiable move between July and September 2026 that says something about where business in Africa and the Middle East is heading.
CreditChek Buys Uganda's Algosys, Betting That Lenders Want More Than Data
The Nigerian credit infrastructure company is using an acquisition, not a greenfield launch, to enter East Africa.
Yassir Baaziz Built His Career on Global Trade. Now He Is Building a Voice for the Leaders Who Drive It.
The founder of WEVN on why the executives running the world's fastest-changing markets deserve better coverage, and why decisions matter more than biographies.
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The Johannesburg fintech, founded in 2023, is financing devices for customers that traditional credit checks tend to miss.
SunCulture Turns Farmer Repayments Into Fresh Capital With a $10m Securitisation
The Kenyan climate-tech company is going to the capital markets, not just venture investors, to fund growth.
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Directors who approved exploratory AI budgets on strategic grounds are now asking who is accountable for a wrong output. Several technology chiefs say it is the most useful question their boards have asked.
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The Kestrel Logistics founder started with three trucks and a spreadsheet. She now moves freight across fourteen African and Gulf markets, and she still reviews the routing exceptions herself every Monday.
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Top 10 Leaders Shaping Global Business in 2026
Our annual roundup of the executives whose decisions this year will still be visible in their industries in five. Selected by the WEVN editorial desk for operating judgement rather than profile.