Leadership

Triphine Miyanda is a corporate lawyer with 10 years’ experience in commercial transactions, negotiating, company secretarial functions, legal research and advisory services, regulatory compliance and stakeholder management, litigation, merger and acquisitions and project management.

Triphine has worked in both the public and private sector. Prior to joining FINCA she worked as Local In-house Legal Counsel for Efferton Group managing 3 operations in Zambia. She was responsible for establishing the legal department and was in charge of all legal issues with respect to operations and regulatory compliance.

Before joining Efferton Group, she worked as a Commercial and Regulatory Specialist in the corporate affairs department with MTN Zambia Limited (MTNZ). She was instrumental in establishing and setting up the legal and regulatory unit as well as in the issuance and set up of MTN Mobile Money Limited. Her experience extends to the Ministry of Justice as State Advocate in the Attorney General’s chambers.

She is currently pursuing a Master’s in Business Administration with the Eastern and Southern Management Institute in Tanzania. Triphine holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Law from the University Zambia and a practicing certificate from the Zambia Institute of Advanced Legal Education.

Chilao Mutesa is a human resource practitioner with fifteen years of work experience.  Chilao is currently the Human Resource Manager for FINCA Zambia. Prior to joining FINCA, he was Human Resource Project Coordinator, First Quantum Mining and Operations in Solwezi where he deployed human resource systems, collective bargaining as well as engaged as Dean at Northrise University where he developed courses including Zambia’s first online Diploma in Human Resource Management.

Chilao worked as Director Human Resources and later Director Corporate Planning at the Zambia Telecommunications Company and Head of Management Development at Konkola Copper Mines. He has served on the national council of the Zambia Institute of Human Resource Management, a body set up by Parliament to regulate the human resource profession.

Chilao has a Diploma in Management and Masters in Business Administration from Hull University and a PhD in Management Education from the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside in the United Kingdom. He has a Certificate in Labour Law from the University of Cape Town in South Africa and is a certified Mediator by the Zambian Judiciary.

Chilao sits on the boards of Northrise Medical Centre, Occupational Health and Safety Institute HR Committee of the Board and M & C Trading.