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.

Mike Gama-Lobo has over a decade of management leadership with FINCA. He led FINCA subsidiaries in Haiti, Democratic Republic of Congo and Tanzania through rapid expansion in the midst of major political upheavals. He began his career in small- and micro-enterprise financial services while serving with the Peace Corps in Haiti. Mr. Gama-Lobo has a bachelor’s degree in Business Management Economics from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Isaiah G Chindumba is a Financial Services Professional with over 33 years of banking experience. He worked for Citibank Zambia Ltd in various capacities for 23 years until 2008. In 2009 he moved to Rwanda where he took up the Chief Operating Officer role at (BCR) now I&M Bank Rwanda Ltd until 2015.He later in the year (2015) was appointed as Chief Operating Officer for Investrust Bank PLC a local Zambian Commercial bank until November 2017. He is also a Non-Executive Board member of three FINCA subsidiaries in Africa. Isaiah has business interests in the Insurance and Tourism sector in Zambia. Mr. Chindumba holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree, a Post Graduate Diploma in International Law from University of Zambia and holder of Awards in Marketing and Strategic Planning from Edinburgh Business School.

Jetty Lungu is an expert in strategic and business planning, financial management and project management. He has over 20 years of experience in Financial and Business Management work in Africa and S.E. Asia. He also has Big 4 Audit firm consulting exposure in many industries including agriculture, telecoms, manufacturing, mining, micro-financial services, trading etc. He has worked at Director and EXCO Strategic Planning roles for leading Multinationals. He has served on boards and committees for CIMA Zambia and Southern Africa, ZICA among others.

Jetty holds an MBA in Marketing, mini MBA in telecoms and is a former fellow member of Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) UK and Zambia Institute of Chartered Accountants (ZICA).