Blessing Mudavanhu
Blessing Mudavanhu | |
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| Born | May 26, 1971 Zimbabwe |
| Occupation(s) | Mathematician, corporate leader, academic, entrepreneur, business executive |
| Years active | 2000s–present |
| Known for | Founder and president of Dura Capital Limited; Group CEO of CBZ Holdings; former Group CEO of BancABC |
Blessing Mudavanhu (born 26 May 1971) is a Zimbabwean expert in mathematics, corporate leadership, academia, entrepreneurship, and business. He is the founder and current president of Dura Capital Limited, a company he established in 2006 at the age of 35. Since 1 June 2018, he has held the position of Group CEO at CBZ Holdings, a prominent financial services group based in Zimbabwe.
Between January 2015 and August 2016, Mudavanhu acted as the Group CEO for BancABC, a financial services enterprise operating subsidiaries in six African nations.
Background and education
Hailing from Zimbabwe, Mudavanhu completed his Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics at the University of Zimbabwe. He further attained a Master’s degree in Financial Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2002, supported by a Fulbright scholarship, he earned his PhD in mathematics from the University of Washington.
Career
Following his postgraduate studies, Mudavanhu began his professional journey at American International Group (AIG) in New York City as a Senior Risk Analytics Associate. Subsequently, he took on the role of director for Global Risk Management at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, managing teams across New York, London, Mexico City, and Sao Paulo.
In 2009, he assumed the role of Group Chief Risk Officer at BancABC Group headquartered in Johannesburg. He was promoted to Group CEO in January 2015 but stepped down from this position in August 2016 and officially departed from the organization by January 2017.
Other responsibilities
Mudavanhu serves as an Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business and holds a Visiting Senior Lecturer position within the School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the University of the Witwatersrand. Additionally, he contributes as a lecturer at its business school. Previously, he was an Adjunct Professor specializing in Risk Management at Baruch College, City University of New York. In August 2017, he was appointed to the board of the Development Bank of Southern Africa as a non-executive director for a renewable term lasting three years.
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