Mr. Ramadhani Mabadiba - Trustee
Mr. Ramadhani Madabida studied business policy from the Curtin University of Technology, Australia where he attained a Master's degree in Business Administration in 1981. He has as well a Graduate Diploma in Business Administration from the same Institute having specialized in the management of marketing distribution channels. He has a wide administrative and managerial experience having worked in both the public and private sectors for the last twenty-eight years. He is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Tanzania Pharmaceutical Industries Limited, which is one of the privatized former public enterprises.
Mr. Madabida has played a leading role in the privatization of the Tanzanian public pharmaceutical manufacturing sector. He was the Team Leader in the Preparation and submission of a proposal for Management participation in the ownership of Tanzania Pharmaceutical Industries Limited, conducted a Technical and Management Audit of Tanzania Pharmaceutical industries Limited and conducted a Due Diligence Review of Tanzania pharmaceutical manufacturing companies which were listed for privatization whose reports were submitted to Tanzania Venture Capital Fund for investment decision between January 1995 and July 1996.
He eventually prepared a Feasibility Study for rehabilitation and financing of capital items for Tanzania Pharmaceutical Industries Limited (TPI), the company he now leads and which he has done a great deal to transform. Under Mr. Madabida's leadership the company has managed to attract investments from both overseas and local investors. In the process the company is now implementing, in collaboration with Action Medeor (a German Medical Aid Organization), a Euro 5 million project financed by the European Union. Apart from his normal duties, Mr. Madabida is the Chair of Tanzania Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association; he is a member of the Governing Council of the Confederation of Tanzania Industries and seats on the Board of Katani Ltd – one of the largest Agro-Industrial businesses in the country and Chairs the Board of Directors of Tancord (1998) Limited.
In 2003 Mr. Madabida participated in the drafting and writing of a paper which was presented to the Institute of Medicine Committee on the ‘Role of Pharmaceutical Industry and Technology and its appropriate regulation in improving antimalarial drugs and producing them inexpensively (using artemisinins as an example). He has also participated and presented papers in seminars and workshops both nationally, regionally and internationally.
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..::Unit Trust of Tanzania::..