Team

Michael Sudarkasa

Title: Chairman

Professional Capacity and Areas of Specialty: Michael Sudarkasa is the Chairman of Africa Business Group. A commercial attorney (intellectual property, broadcast media, and cross border transactions) and economic development practitioner, his areas of specialty include African private sector development, international trade and investment promotion and facilitation, corporate finance and private equity investment.

Project Management Coverage: Worldwide.

Mignonne Karugu

Title: Chief Executive Officer

Professional Capacity and Areas of Specialty:Mignonne is the CEO of Africa Business Group (ABG), a South Africa based continentally active, African economic development company, and the Managing Director of the company’s branch in Rwanda. In addition to planning the company’s strategy and directing the internal operations of ABG, Mignonne leads the firms work related to the facilitation of international trade and investment programmes by driving the firm’s business development efforts in the continent in the areas of agriculture, off-grid renewable energy, healthcare, and capacity building.

Project Management Coverage: Africa

Ernest Fausther

Title: Manager & Senior Advisor of Multilateral Institutions

Professional Capacity and Areas of Specialty: Ernest Fauster serves as ABG’s Senior Advisor of Multilateral Institutions and provides leadership and significant experience in guiding and facilitating the company’s work with institutions within the United Nations, the World Bank Group, the African Development Bank Group among others.

Project Management Coverage: Africa.

Dr. Richard Hayes

Title: Senior Advisor, Entrepreneurship Development

Professional Capacity and Areas of Specialty:Dr. Richard Hayes serves as a Senior Advisor, Entrepreneurship Development for the Africa Business Group. He also is an Associate Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at the Frank Zarb School of Business at Hofstra University in New York.