Reginald Mengi, Business Visionary, Industrialist and Philanthropist on Overcoming Fear

Biography

Reginald Abraham Mengi, industrialist and media tycoon, twice nominated the second most respected Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in East Africa -in 2001 and 2002- is owner and Executive Chairman of Tanzania’s IPP Media Group and one of Africa’s leading and most influential businessmen.A chartered accountant by training, Reginal Mengi created the IPP business conglomerate in the mid 1980s, after serving as Chairman and Managing Partner of Coopers & Lybrand in Tanzania.

The IPP Group, which started as a small scale, hand operated ball point assembly plant in Dar Es Salaam has expanded and diversified to become one of the largest industrial groups in Eastern Africa.

Among other activities, it encompasses a Financial Consulting firm -IPP Consulting- a bottling company in joint venture with Coca-Cola -Bonite Bottlers Ltd.- Tanzania’s leading manufacturer of soaps and toothpaste -Bodycare Ltd.- as well as eleven newspapers, three radio stations and a television company operating in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda.

These include ITV-Independent television Ltd., Radio ONE Ltd and The Guardian Limited, which publishes some of Tanzania’s leading weekly and Sunday newspapers:

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