Investment Diaries With Dr Nigel Chanakira Part 2 - Patient Capital & Savvy Commercialisation

Published: April 15, 2019, 6:31 a.m.

b'This is the second and final part of an insight-filled conversation Andile Masuku had with one of Zimbabwe\\u2019s most well-known and well-respected business people, the economist turned banker, entrepreneur and investor, Dr Nigel Chanakira. In this instalment, Dr Chanakira shares entrepreneurial wisdom around commercialising market-relevant tech and innovation and explains why he remains pragmatically bullish about Zimbabwe\\u2019s investment prospects. \\n\\nDr Chanakira is probably most famous for founding Kingdom Financial Holdings Limited in 1997, and for orchestrating that company\\u2019s much-publicized merger and demerger with the Meikles Africa group before eventually selling out to the Mauritius-based AfrAsia Holdings in 2013. Prior to founding Kingdom Financial Holdings, he spent long stints working for the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and Bard Discount House. Over the years, he has sat on the boards of numerous leading companies and institutions, including Econet Wireless Holdings, Success Motivation Institute (Africa), the Christian Community Trust and Kingdom Meikles Africa.\\n\\nImage credit: Daniele Levis Pelusi'