A/ CEO- TRADING & MANUFACTURING

Benson is one of the founding GSM Corporate Executives who have helped steer GSM Group’s growth in various sectors and in different countries. A Certified Public Accountant with more than 25 years of experience in auditing, banking, finance, accounting and management consulting.

He is experienced in leading and coordinating change management processes. He is a strong believer in the power of technology, a promoter of sound control and financial reporting systems, ethics and integrity, and encourages every team member to think out of the box as entities re-organise and set up new strategic directions.

Benson has a solid international experience coupled with rich local content and has been involved as a member and chairman of committees and main boards of several international and local institutions – strong corporate governance experience.

CEO FOR RETAIL BUSINESS CLUSTER

Basil joins us having worked in Woolworths South Africa & Africa region for over 17 Years across Food and Clothing.
His last assignment was with Landmark Group in the Middle East for 8 Years heading up various roles in the Middle East and Africa Franchise regions, including Kuwait, Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan, and Nigeria amongst many other countries. He was also instrumental in Launching Brands across South East Asia including Malaysia, Indonesia.

He has been actively growing our fashion footprint by opening up new stores across the country including Dodoma, Zanzibar as well as Nairobi, Kenya. He has also pioneered new brands into the group across all age groups.

Basil also heads the furniture/home division with GSM Home and HomeBox in his portfolio as he continues to drive good quality products and competitive prices.

“ Everything we do must have the customer at the heart of our business, our role as retailers is to provide solutions to our customers, through creating a value proposition that includes great product at good prices, the right product at the right time, and to give customers a great shopping environment and great innovation to make customers lives easier across all our stores in the group“ Basil Hoskin – CEO GSM Retail.

AMANI SOKKO

A seasoned Accountant with vast experience in multiple institution, Amani Sokko is one of the founding members of the Group. His commitment to spearhead the department from inception to use of world class accounting packages has yielded great results.

As a passion, Amani Sokko is built with great teaching skills, establishing an academy of nurturing fresh entrants in to accounting into certified public accountants.

MOHAMMED SALEH

Since 2014, Mohammed Saleh has led GSM Group’s technological projects that are aligned with strategic business objectives and have fuelled the Group’s expansion in the logistics, manufacturing, trading, and retail sectors across many countries. He has more than two decades of experience in the information technology industry, with a particular emphasis on cybersecurity, collaboration, business intelligence, and business continuity.

He is a firm believer in the need of having the right people and processes in place to accelerate the adoption of innovative technologies. By ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data, this results in greater controls, increased efficiencies, and data security. He encourages team members to do the right thing and to approach problems from a variety of perspectives.

Mohammed leverages his significant international expertise and in-depth local understanding to advise, lead, and coordinate on best-fit enterprise solutions.

ALLAN CHONJO

Experienced commercial strategist with experiences in FMCG, Telecom & Cement both local and multinational. Over 14 years practising Sales & Marketing makes him quite experience in different market dynamics. Visionary, Open minded and straight forward leader. Great listener and loves to impact knowledge to people. Commercial Transformation and Brand equity are key for him with people at the
centre of it all.
MA: Advertising – Leeds University (UK)
Bsc: Computer Sc (UDSM)

DEODATUS MKUMBE
Deo started his career with GSM back in 2010, bringing to this appointment his wealth of experience of the Galco Human Resources
functions, Strategic Planning, Performance Management, Talent Development, Implement, maintain and optimize HR best practices
amongst others acquired in close contact with  GSM Group oces & HR teams.

Chief Internal Auditor

John is an Associate Certified Public Accountant in public practice (ACPA_PP 2914), hold a master’s degree in finance (M.Sc. Finance) from university of Strathclyde (Scotland) and a bachelor of degree in Accountancy with first class classification from University of Finance Management.  John has TEN years of in-depth experience in Auditing, Taxation, Accountancy, finance, management, and consultancies.

John has provided both internal and external, special reviews to private companies, Bank, Donor Funded projects, NGO’s, Educational institutions and other many public entities by working with the largest local established auditing firm in Tanzania TAC Associates for more than 5 years.

Prior to joining auditing, he worked as an account for a year as Account Assistant with Insurance group of Tanzania.

John joined GSM in 2017 as Audit Manager of GSM Tanzania and got promoted to  Group Internal Audit Manager during August 2017. As head of group audit department, John is managing internal audit department, performing internal audit function to manufacturing cluster, trading cluster, retail cluster, logistic luster, ICD, CFS businesses.