Nehemiah is an inspirational and transformational leader with high level of liveliness in business management. He was born and grew in Tanzanian where he emerged as the youngest CEO in East Africa region within 7 years, particularly in the highly regulated financial sector. He is a B.com (Finance) of the University of Dar es salaam. He started his career (1999) as a junior banker at Citibank and thereafter briefly joined Barclays Bank Tanzania before joining Standard Chartered Bank Tanzania Limited as a Head of Trading – responsible for Bank’s balance sheet management, (assets and liabilities)(2001 – 2002).

In 2002 – 2004 he took further responsibility as a Head of Global market, before his promotion to the alternate director position – Head of Global Markets and Co – Head of Wholesale Banking where he served from 2004 – 2006.

His legacy has always been remarkable and his hand has always turned stones into gold, while at Standard Chartered Bank – he grew the business and at a later stage the business become a major contributor of revenue to the bank from 45% to 87% in 2005, whilst the number of products increased from 3 to 12.

In June 2006, he joined United Bank of Africa Tanzania which he managed to turn around from a loss making to profit making bank in less than a year.

Despite the aforementioned inspirational changes, Nehemiah has been a catalyst in various Financial and Economic reform activities; this includes working in various involvements in different capacities, as President of ACI- Financial Market Association – Tanzania Chapter and Chairperson of the Tanzania Financial Market Leadership Forum. He spent time to introduce global financial products while at Standard Chartered Bank this involved both BOT and Tanzania Bankers Association. Nehemiah, worked as a team Manager of the first successful Subordinated debt issue from a Commercial Banks in Tanzania and first one to be listed in the Dar Es Salaam Stock Exchange. This is the longest maturity corporate bond in East Africa to date.

He is currently the chairperson of the University Of Dar Es Salaam Faculty Of Commerce Alumnae (UDS-FCM Alumnae), A Board Chairman of the Rightways Schools, a board member of National Investment Company Limited (NICOL) and he is also a member of several country task forces.