Leadership

Strategic management team profile

Kongalend’s Strategic Management team is composed of professionals with in-depth understanding, skills and experience in the sphere of development finance, commercial banking and microfinance as well as debt management and collection industries. Our team is driven by a passion to make a meaningful contribution to our national development agenda through the provision of inclusive and life-changing financial solutions with the promise to improve people’s lives and livelihoods.

Tshoombe Ndadi

Executive Chairman and founder

Tshoombe Ndadi - Executive Chairman and founder - 2007

Tshoombe is a strategic business generalist who is passionate about taking development to communities at the bottom of the socio-economic pyramid in a sustainable manner. He has 30 years of executive corporate leadership experience, serving at the helm of commercial enterprises within the print and publishing industry in Namibia and Botswana, presiding as Chairman for DMC Namibia, a diamond valuations company in Namibia, as well as rolling out renewable energy financing and distribution to off-grid rural communities.

Tshoombe holds a Higher National Diploma (BTEC): Business and Finance. Graduate of the London Institute at the London College of Printing 1989, majoring in Printing and Publishing Management. Graduate of the Senior Management Programme, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, 1997.

A proud product of the Namibian liberation struggle that brought independence to Namibia, Tshoombe Ndadi is an ardent proponent for and is convinced that the deployment of development capital through microfinance intermediaries to finance micro, small and medium enterprises has a greater potential to creating much needed jobs in the informal sector, thereby making a positive dent on poverty and addressing the socio-economic inequalities that characterise the Namibian economy.

Immanuel Puleinge

Principal Officer and CEO

Immanuel Tuvangapi Puleinge - Principal Officer and CEO

Immanuel is qualified chartered accountant with a sound academic background and a wealth of practical experience in financial management and auditing, spanning more than 15 years. He is an avid financial analyst with a keen eye for detail. His role is to guide effective implementation of financial policy, set performance targets and oversee deployment of functional integrated management information systems, ensuring full reporting compliance, the regulatory framework and upkeep of retrievable and auditable financial records in line with Namibian Generally Accepted Accounting Practice – NAC 001.

Immanuel holds a Bachelor of Accounting and Science honours degree from the University of South Africa (UNISA); a postgraduate diploma in Accountancy (Prelim) from Rhodes University and a Bachelor of Accounting (BACC) from the University of Namibia.

Before joining Kongalend in 2008, Immanuel worked with Deloitte & Touché, as an external auditor. Major assignments applicable have included the auditing of NamDeb (the joint venture between De Beers and the Government of Namibia), the Development Bank of Namibia and the Electricity Control Board, to mention but a few.

Tomas Kalumbu

Manager: Finance and Admin

Tomas Kalumbu - Manager: Finance and Administration

The indomitable and ready to serve beyond the call of duty; Tomas is the pillar of financial discipline, effective resource utilization and control. He joined Kongalend in 2012 as a Financial Accountant and was gradually promoted to the central position of Manager: Finance and administration. He also served as regional manager, coordinating the activities between head office and regional branches situated in the northern part of the country.

Tomas holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Business Administration, Polytechnic of Namibia (now NUST, the Namibia University of Science and Technology). Before joining Kongalend, he worked as a lecturer at International Training College Lingua in the Business and Management Department; Project Manager/Project co-ordinator of the First Oshakati Totem Expo in 2012. Over the past eight years, Tomas has demonstrably developed strong leadership abilities and exceptional competencies in financial strategy and modelling techniques.

Leadership

Strategic management team profile

Tshoombe Ndadi

Immanuel Puleinge

Tomas Kalumbu

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