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Alisa Amupolo is a Namibian businesswoman and the CEO of PowerCom, an ICT infrastructure and equipment provider. Born in rural northern Namibia in 1983. After completing her secondary education, she travelled to Windhoek to pursue her studies towards a BA in Media and Communications at the University of Namibia. Amupolo graduated with a holds a Masters Degree in International Communications, with a focus on telecommunications, from the University of Leeds, and in 2011 she finished the London Business School’s Emerging Leaders Programme.

After graduation she served as PRO at Namibian Broadcasting Corporation. During her tenure there, she was part of a team that launched digital studios for the broadcaster nationwide. She subsequently worked at the Institutional and Governance Development department of the Commonwealth Secretariat, the only Namibian at that institution at the time.

She is the founder and CEO of Nation Technology Solutions, a tech start-up company best known for having launched the website information.na.

A notable position was when Alisa served as a Transformation Project Manager responsible for managing the transformation process of the Namibian Communications Commission (NCC) to that of the Communication Regulatory Authority of Namibia (CRAN).

Before joining PowerCom, she served as a Non-Executive Director at MTC, and as Deputy-Chairperson of the Namibia Post and Telecommunications Holdings Board of Directors.

Her experience with transformation led her to serve a consultant during the trasformation process of what was known as the Central Bureua of Statistsics to the Namibia Statistsics Agency. In 2017 she became a laurette of the Choiseul Africa’s 100 top economic leaders below 40. In 2014, she was recognized as one of MISA’s Women to Watch. She also received a recognition award in absentia from Cambridge University’s African Society.

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