Othman Benjelloun is chairman and CEO of BANK OF AFRICA Group (formerly BMCE), which has assets of more than $47.4 billion and operations across West, Central, and East Africa. His father was a shareholder in Moroccan insurer RMA, which Benjelloun built into a leading insurance company. Through holding company O Capital Group, he has a stake in the Moroccan arm of French telecom firm Orange. In 2014, he launched a $500 million plan to build the 55-storey Mohammed VI Tower in Rabat, one of Africa’s tallest buildings. FinanceCom, which largely operates as O Capital Group, is also part of a multibillion-dollar tech city project in Tangier expected to host 200 Chinese companies.