Team

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

Experience and Sectoral Focus: Mignonne is a private sector development specialist with over 15 years of professional experience in management, operational, technology and international business expertise. She has worked for both governmental and private sector institutions in a variety of front-line roles. Mignonne recently served as COO of the Africa Business Group for 8 years. In this role Mignonne focused on fostering and enhancing the role of the company in increasing scope and responsibility as a private sector entity. Prior to taking on this role, she served as the Commercial Director for television production house Endemol Worldwide Brands, Virtual Partner Account Manager for Cisco Systems and has worked in the African Aviation Industry focusing on craft leasing and purchase. In the telecommunications sector, she has worked between two co-located multinational corporations Equant (now Orange Services) and SITA, that both focused on WAN development and management, the former reselling to the private sector and the latter focused on supporting the African aviation industry serving as the industry’s communications backbone. Mignonne also worked in the online gaming industry as a Europe focused market development specialist. In this role, she emerged as a specialist in Digital Marketing and Advertising with a deep understanding of the digital landscape.

Nationality and Languages: Mignonne is a Rwandan citizen and a native French speaker, she is fluent in English, Kinyarwanda (mother tongue), Lingala (spoken in DRC) and also speaks Swahili (spoken in East Africa). She has been resident in South Africa since 2000.

Education and Professional Qualifications: Mignonne received a Master of Business Administration degree from Hult International Business School, holds an Associate degree from Kigali Independent University and has a Postgraduate Certificate in Management Advancement Programme (MAP) from Wits Business School.