Ashish Thakkar
Ashish J. Thakkar ni rwiyemezamirimo ukomoka mu Rwanda.   Niwe washinze Mara Group na Mara Foundation, akaba ari nawe washinze Atlas Mara Limited . Thakkar akaba yavukiye mu Bwongereza, ariko yimukira muri Afurika y'Iburasirazuba akiri ingimbi mbere yo gushinga Mara Group, ihuriro ry’Abanyafurika, afite imyaka 15.  Ibikorwa bya Mara Group nishoramari bikorera m'ubihugu bigera 22 by'Afurika.  Ni umwanditsi w'Intare Ikanguka, Ibyabaye mu gitangaza cyu bukungu bwa Afurika .

Thakkar ni umwe mu bagize ihuriro ry’ubukungu bw’isi ku bayobozi bato ku isi,   kandi yashyizwe ku rutonde rw’ikinyamakuru Fortune ku rutonde rwa mbere imunsi 40 y’imyaka 40  muri 2013.  Yahawe igihembo cya Base Leadership Award mu birori bya MTV Africa Music Awards 2014 .  ikinyamakuru Esquire y'amwise umuntu w’umwaka wo mu burasirazuba bwo hagati muri 2016. 

Muri 2015, Thakkar yagizwe Umuyobozi w’Inama y’umuryango w’abibumbye ishinzwe kwihangira imirimo ku isi naho muri 2017, agirwa umuyobozi w’itsinda ngishwanama ry’urubyiruko rwa Perezida muri Banki nyafurika ishinzwe iterambere;

Ubuzima bwambere nuburere 
Umuryango wa Thakkar wimukiye muri leta ya Gujarat yo mu Buhinde muri Afurika mu 1890.   Thakkar yavukiye i Leicester muri 1981.  Yabayeho mu bwana bwe mu ishuri rya Rushey Mead mu itsinda rya Belvoir S. Ababyeyi be bari barimukiye mu Bwongereza mu 1972 igihe Idi Amin yashyiraga mu bikorwa kwirukana Abanyaziya muri Uganda .  Thakkar n'umuryango we basubiye muri Afurika gutura mu Rwanda mbere yuko bongera guhatirwa kugenda kubera jenoside yo mu Rwanda mu 1994. Umuryango wa Thakkar wahungiye mu Burundi mbere yo gutura muri Uganda nk'impunzi.   Ku myaka 15, Thakkar yaretse ishuri kugira ngo atangire ubucuruzi bwe ku nguzanyo y'amadorari 5,000.

Umwuga 
Thakkar yashinze isosiyete ye bwite, yitwa Mara Group, muri 1996 afite imyaka 15.  Yatangiye atumiza ibice bya mudasobwa birimo ahanini claviers, mouses, na desktops kuva m'urugendo rwa buri cyumweru i Dubai .  Thakkar amaze kubona inguzanyo y'amadorari 5,000 yo gutangiza isosiyete ye,  yafunguye ubucuruzi buciriritse bwa IT m'isoko ry’ubucuruzi hakurya y'umuhanda uva mu iduka rya se i Kampala . 

Mu myaka icumi yakurikiyeho, Thakkar yaguye Mara Group mu inganda, imitungo itimukanwa, ubuhinzi na serivisi za IT.   Nyuma Thakkar yimuye icyicaro gikuru i Dubai, ariko akomereza ubucuruzi muri Afurika.  

Muri 2013, Thakkar yatangaje kubufatanye na Bob Diamond gutangiza Atlas Mara,  isosiyete ishora imari mu bigo by’a mabanki y’ubucuruzi mur'afurika.  Diamond wahoze ari umuyobozi mukuru wa Barclays, na Thakkar bahuriye mu nama babinyujije ku ruhande rwabo, hari Mara Foundation na Fondasiyo ya Diamond.  Thakkar na Diamond bakusanyije inkunga ingana na miliyoni 325 z'amadolari y'amerika mu Kuboza 2013, mbere yo gushyira ku rutonde iyi sosiyete ku isoko ry'imigabane rya London .   Igiciro cy'imigabane cyakomeje kugabanuka gahoro gahoro kandi kigera cyatakaje 95% byigiciro cya IPO.  Ikimenyetso cya ticker i Londres ni ATMA. LN, m'ugihe muri Amerika, amatike yari AAMAF.

Ibindi bikorwa 
Thakkar yashinze ikigo Mara Foundation, isosiyete idaharanira inyungu itanga inama kandi igatera inkunga ba rwiyemezamirimo bakiri bato bo mu Afurika,  muri 2009.  Mara Mentor, yari porogaramu igendanwa ihuza ba rwiyemezamirimo bakiri bato n’inzobere mu bucuruzi, yatangijwe binyuze muri Mara Foundations. 

Muri Kamena 2014, Thakkar yitabiriye ibirori bya Global Accelerator yakiriwe na Fondasiyo y’umuryango w’a bibumbye hamwe ibiro by’umuryango w’abibumbye bishinzwe ubufatanye kugira ngo baganire ku kwihangira imirimo mu ntego za Loni. Thakkar yerekanye kandi akora mu birori bya ba rwiyemezamirimo barenga 100 n'abayobozi ba Loni barimo Michael Dell, Barbara Bush na Arianna Huffington .  Muri Kanama 2014, Thakkar yitabiriye inama y’Amerika n'afurika, yakiriwe ndetse na White House, ari kumwe na Bill Clinton wahoze ari Perezida w'amerika.  Yagiye kandi mu ishyirahamwe ry’umuryango w’abibumbye ryita ku bagore,  kandi yari umushyitsi mukuru mu nama y’urubyiruko y’a bagiraneza ya Emirates Foundation muri Gushyingo 2014.

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 Atlas Mara Co-Nvest Limited

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Ihuza ryo hanze 

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 Harvard Business School Mara Group Case Study
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