Mr. Phuthuma Nhleko, Chairman of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), former Group Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of MTN Group, and Chairman of the Pembani Group, is billed to deliver a Special Address at the Boardroom Governance Summit 2026 at the Labadi Beach Hotel in Accra on Thursday, 12 November 2026.
The summit being organised by Boardroom Governance Summit, (BGS Africa), a unit of PanAvest International & Partners and the largest boardroom-focused one-day summit on the African continent, is under the theme “Board Committees: From Oversight to Impact.”
About a 1,000 chairpersons, directors, chief executives, regulators, investors and governance professionals from across Africa and beyond are expected to attend.
Mr. Nhleko presides over Africa’s largest stock exchange and stands as a guardian of trust in the continent’s capital markets.
He founded the Pembani Group in 1994, at the dawn of South Africa’s democracy, and built it into an industrial holding company with interests in oil and gas, minerals, metals and infrastructure across Africa.
In 2012, he established the Pembani Remgro Infrastructure Fund to invest in the infrastructure the continent needs to grow. His boardroom journey has taken him through BP plc, Anglo American and Tullow Oil plc, and he serves today on the board of IHS Towers.
An engineer by training and a graduate of The Ohio State University, he unites technical rigour, financial mastery and bold strategic vision in a way few leaders on any continent can match.
Ing. Prof. Douglas Boateng, Founder and Convenor of the Boardroom Governance Summit has said Phuthuma Nhleko is a living proof that Africa does not need to borrow excellence. It can build it.”
“He took an African idea to the world and showed that when a board is courageous, disciplined and committed to future generations, there is no limit to what an African institution can achieve.”
Ing. Prof. Douglas Boateng says Phuthuma Nhleko’s Special address at BGS 2026 is a call to every boardroom on this continent to raise its ambition.
“Our board committees must stop being mere instruments of oversight and become engines of impact”, he advised urging every chairperson, director and executive who believes in Africa’s future to be in the room on 12 November.
He said what makes this address a must-attend moment is that every delegate will leave inspired, challenged and equipped to lead differently.
- E. Dr. Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, Presidential Special Envoy on Reparation and Diaspora Relations will chair BGS 2026 with Dr. Julius Debrah, Chief of Staff, as Special Guest of Honour, amongst others.
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