From banking to investment teams to a fintech operating across Africa, Jade Longano had done almost every other job before stepping into the CFO chair. She describes most of it as figuring it out as she went.

The evening of 19 February marked the beginning of Namibia’s entry into Executive Communities, as an elite group of nearly 30 chief financial officers gathered for the country’s first CFO event.

An elite group of at least 30 of Botswana’s top financial officers from medium to large firms got together for the first historic gathering of the country's finance chiefs, under the Executive Communities banner.