A decade ago, Petrogas transitioned out of a manufacturer’s representation business model into a customer-centric enterprise. As a result, Petrogas is now well-established in the industry, with an accepted value-proposition and a loyal customer base.
As its Chairman, Chikawe is strategically repositioning Petrogas to become Tanzania’s leading local manufacturer and supplier of a vast array of Oil & Gas products, services, and engineered solutions. These include precision machined components and assemblies such as connectors, fasteners, sealants, fittings, hoses, regulators, washers, accessories, and vehicle conversion kits—all custom-designed to increase the utilization of natural gas in all its various forms particularly Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) and Liquified Natural Gas (LNG).
Engineered to reduce imports thereby deepening and broadening Tanzania’s Local Content, the Petrogas industrial manufacturing output will serve Oil & Gas export markets throughout the East African Community (EAC) and Southern African Development Community (SADC) member countries.
Operating at the helm of Petrogas, Chikawe is changing the company’s market position, brand image, and target audience to better align with market trends, customer needs, and competitive landscape–ultimately aiming to build enduring performance and relevance.
Chikawe is a former Member of Parliament, Minister of State in the President’s Office for Good Governance, Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, and Minister of Home Affairs. Before retiring, Chikawe served as Ambassador of the United Republic of Tanzania in Tokyo, Japan who was also accredited to the Republic of Korea, Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea.
An active and highly experienced lawyer in private practice, Chikawe is currently serving as the Chairman of Tiper Tanzania Ltd, which is the largest oil storage facility in the country.
Stephen Mosha is a dynamic and competent professional advocate with over 14 years of extensive experience as a competent lawyer within the legal services industry. Mosha successfully manages case preparations and court proceedings. He leverages his innate inter-personal communication skills and savvy diplomacy in order to build key alliances and partnerships.
Having dealt with a diversity of corporate and individual clients cutting across sectors and industries, Mosha naturally thrives in dynamic environments and quickly adapts to the ever-changing demands of the legal field.
Ever-energetic with chutzpah, Mosha is a humble problem-solver determined to always maintain a “cool head” particularly in times of crisis and great anxiety. Mosha possesses proven capabilities and ability to build highly motivated and effective legal teams that deliver. He believes that a good team leadership and a hands-on approach to management result into increased professional standards and bigger returns on investment.
Mosha applies his knowledge and expertise in working with various needy communities by applying his legal expertise to ensure an efficient and effective use of local resources in order to improve the livelihoods of community members through capacity building, empowering and encouraging active community participation.
Stephen Mosha is an Advocate of the High Court of Tanzania and Courts subordinates thereto; Notary Public and Commissioner for Oaths; Member of Tanganyika Law Society-Bar Association for Mainland Tanzania; and Member of East Africa Law Society-Bar Association for East Africa.
Endowed with unique competencies to convert a vision into an enduring value for clients and other beneficiaries, Mosha is professional at all times—transparent with high integrity on compliance matters and beyond.
Succinctly, Mosha is dedicated to serving his country and its people as a lawyer specializing in corporate and commercial laws. In the course of implementing his goals as Managing Partner at Neptune Law Attorneys, Mosha focuses on institutionalizing the fraternity as a legal factory that engages members in the preparation and delivery of various advisory services and representations in the courts of law.
In discharging his Board Member responsibilities and accountabilities, Mosha is appropriately armed with a Master’s Degree of Laws (LLM) in Oil & Gas Laws and a Master’s Degree of Laws (LLM) in Corporate and Commercial Laws.
A seasoned economist, planner and marketer with over 20 years of experience working in the airline industry, Caroline Clara Mrema is a long-established entrepreneur in education, real estate, logistics, clearing & forwarding, transit cargo haulage, and tourism industries.
At Petrogas, our key metric for success is lifetime customer value, which we expect to be at least double the cost of acquiring each customer. This approach ensures that we are building businesses with genuine customer value, rather than simply chasing immediate returns. We understand that for a new venture to scale effectively, it must not only attract customers, but also, offer products that genuinely meet their needs and generate lasting demand.
That’s where Ms. Mrema comes in—a bold risk-taker who is adept at opportunity identification, business risk assessment, business development, and customer acquisition. A business-minded former executive of a public corporation, Ms. Mrema believes that translating the early excitement of new ventures into structured milestones and deliverables is essential for sustained progress.
Ms. Mrema espouses a sprint-based cadence—focusing on key parameters that enable rapid execution without sacrificing quality or long-term viability. Ms. Mrema understands that one common pitfall in business is the unrealistic expectation that new ventures will break even within a few months, which is often not the case—even in fast-moving, agile markets.
Ms. Mrema knows from her experiences in the public and private sectors that companies that set such aggressive timelines risk prematurely abandoning promising ventures. While some businesses may appear unprofitable in the early stages, they can scale successfully in the long run, while others may fail to gain traction.
As Board Member, Ms. Mrema helps Petrogas identify concentric business ventures with true growth potential by taking a more nuanced approach—i.e. focusing on midstream metrics that go beyond short-term financial outcomes. With the assistance of Ms. Mrema as a technical Board Member, Petrogas prioritizes customer-focused indicators over vanity metrics such as initial sales figures or superficial growth rates.
Ms. Mrema is a former employee of Air Tanzania Corporation (ATC). Based on performance, Ms. Mrema rose steadily from the position of Corporate Planning Officer to Senior Corporate Planning Officer. With increased performance, she was promoted again to Corporate Planning Manager, Marketing Manager, and finally to the position of Director of Corporate Planning under the Managing Director.
During her distinguished career with the State-Owned-Enterprise (SOE), she developed mission-critical expertise in coordinating the airline business with the parent Ministry—the Treasury, Central Bank, Legal Corporation, Aircraft Manufacturers, IATA, ICAO, SADC, EAC, AFRAA, the World Bank and other international financial institutions.
Some of Ms. Mrema’s prolific assignments and key positions while at ATC include being the Head of Marketing, Acting Secretary to the ATC Board of Directors, and Head of the ATC privatization team, which worked closely with consultants of a World Bank affiliate—International Finance Corporation (IFC) under the guidance of the Presidential Parastatal Sector Reform Commission (PSRC).
Ms. Mrema’s deep-rooted experience in the airline industry was bolstered by her attachment programs at various aircraft manufacturers in Amsterdam, Holland and Toulouse, France where she undertook a feasibility study on a five-year re-equipment program.
Since her retirement over a decade ago, Ms. Mrema has served on several public and private Boards of Directors in the position of Board Director / Member. These include Air Tanzania Corporation (ATC), Tanzania Civil Aviation Authority (TCAA), Galileo by Travel Port International (based in Atlanta, Georgia), Freight Meridien Company Ltd, and Association of Women in Tourism Tanzania.
Other similar engagements include being a Member of the Economic Association of Tanzania, Commonwealth Forum in Sydney, Australia, and the Tanzania Chamber of Commerce Industry and Agriculture (TCCIA).
On the academic front, Ms. Mrema possesses a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Dar es Salaam, a Post Graduate Diploma in Transport Economics from Granfield Institute of Technology, UK, and a Master’s Program in Business Administration at ESAMI.
Other relevant training and staff development programs attended by Ms. Mrema include a Diploma in Airline Operations from Granfield Institute of Technology, UK, Corporate Planning at the Aer Lingus Training Institute in Dublin, Ireland, Strategic Planning & Fleet Evaluation at the Boeing Airplane Group facility in Seattle, Washington, Management Skills at IATA in Singapore, and Fleet Management at Boeing Air Mauritius.
As Member of the Board of Directors, Eng. Amos Jackson Mwansumbule possesses prolific mission-critical competencies: General Management & Administration, Sales & Marketing, Operations Management, Strategy Formulation & Implementation, Oil & Gas Engineering Facilities Design & Project Implementation, Ship-to-Port Logistics Management, Health Safety and Environment (HSE) Management, Petroleum Regulatory Framework Advisory and Personnel Training.
Eng. Mwansumbule has more than 25 years of experience having worked in both the private and public sectors. He had worked in various cross functional leadership positions with world-renown multinational oil companies including Royal Dutch Shell and Caltex/Chevron. He also worked with Maersk Line, which is a global leading container shipping company with responsibility of sea and land cargo transportation operations in Tanzania and land locked countries. Eng. Mwansumbule also got opportunity to work with the Tanzania Energy and Water Utilities Regulatory Authority (EWURA) as Head of Commercial responsible for all of the Country’s petroleum products importation, pricing, stocks management, distribution, competition monitoring and levelling, before moving back to private sector to work with Taifa Gas Group, a local & regional LPG company.
Eng. Mwansumbule is a Member of the Committee of the Tanzania Bureau of Standards (TBS) responsible for LPG and Natural Gas Standards Review & Setting. He holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Chemical & Process Engineering (Hons) from the University of Dar Es Salaam (UDSM) and has attained the pre-requisites Certificate in Master’s of Science (MSC) in Trade Policy and Law from the Policy Training Center in Africa (trapca) with extensive international on-the-job trainings.
Currently, Eng. Mwansumbule is the Executive Director of the Tanzania LPG Association (TZLPGA). As an entrepreneur he is the Founder & CEO of SAROJOAH Enterprise Company Limited (SECOL). Summarily, Eng. Mwansumbule leverage his diverse knowledge, experience and expertise in Engineering, Leadership, General Management and Administration running the gamut from Oil & Gas to Shipping & Logistics and Petroleum Business Regulation.
Mr. Andrew Bernard Asalile is a strategic leader and business consultant with over 15 years of senior management experience spanning finance, business development, and operational efficiency. Over the course of a decade at Tanzania Breweries Limited (TBL), he held roles such as District Manager, Commercial Manager, and Finance & Planning Manager, driving revenue growth, reversing losses, and enhancing operational effectiveness. In addition to his tenure at TBL, Mr. Asalile served as Managing Director of Tracell Company Limited and Director of Commercial & Strategy at SoMango Company Limited, where he led market expansion initiatives, operational turnarounds, and high-performing teams.
In his consulting practice, Mr. Asalile has advised a range of clients across diverse sectors, including Fair Agro Enterprises, Great North Company Ltd., Taifa Gas Ltd, Pangani Group Africa Ltd, and The Cereals and Other Produce Board. His contributions have encompassed designing sustainable organizational structures, facilitating strategic planning workshops, conducting internal controls reviews, implementing fleet management systems, providing financial management insights, developing profitability-focused business strategies, and preparing comprehensive investment plans.
A certified Chartered Accountant (ACCA) and Executive MBA graduate of the Eastern and Southern African Management Institute (ESAMI), Mr. Asalile is recognized for his ability to drive growth, implement effective risk-management frameworks, and optimize value chains.
Mr. Asalile brings to Petrogas Field Services a proven track record of delivering transformative business results, a deep understanding of financial strategy, and a commitment to operational excellence—making him a valuable asset in guiding the company toward sustained growth and innovation.
A classically self-made businessman, Mr. Greyson Ludovic Kiondo is a dynamic and courageous diaspora Tanzanian with offices in Dar es Salaam and Washington DC. A class of 1997 graduate from the School of Management at the State University of New York in Binghamton, New York, Kiondo wields a firm determination to continually unleash his full potential as an International Entrepreneur and Business Executive. The history of Petrogas Field Services Ltd, which is rooted in forward thinking, commitment, and a willingness to adapt and change, is tied to the history of its founder—Kiondo who is also its former Chairman. Always leading, Kiondo focuses on creative disruption, leveraging well-established local assets, homegrown talent, international expertise, and global strategic partnerships to create new business paradigms with their respective growth trajectories.
One of Kiondo’s most prolific decisions made in 2012 was maintaining the core business of Kilimanjaro International Corporation Ltd, a management consulting and training firm; while strategically entering new sectors, industries, and niche-markets—one at a time. Creative and visionary, Kiondo has turned Petrogas into a Tanzanian blue-chip company focused in Oil & Gas, Clean & Renewable Energy, Logistics & Transportation, Ports & Marine and Metals & Mining.
- Leadership| Kiondo is hands on and ‘walks-the-talk’. His humility, confidence, disarming charm, and innate diplomatic skills motivate others to challenge themselves to achieve their personal best. And his success speaks for itself—inherently inspiring; while leading the way to ensure business sustainability. Kiondo ensures agility and adaptability as precursors to preparedness for Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity (VUCA)—i.e. the turbulent, fast-paced, and globalized business world translated into local realities and customized solutions.
- Strategy| Kiondo has an inborn creative mind and an outstanding aptitude for critical thinking. He finds balance between short-, medium-, and long-term thinking, planning and analyzing. He is superb at utilizing the creative inputs of employees and close trusted advisors; and is able to synthesize inputs from commercial intelligence, competitors, business environment, historical data, and future trends to drive strategy.
- Intelligent Risk Taking| How Kiondo started his academic and professional life in the United States on a leap of faith and what he has achieved and where he is today speaks directly to his risk tolerance, perseverance and intuitive approach to business. Clearly ahead of the industry, he has established new companies, lines of business, strategic partnerships and made significant personal and financial commitments in the future of his enterprises—Petrogas Field Services Ltd, Cleanergies Ltd, Raska Analytics & Flow Ltd, Fastrak Railroad Solutions Ltd and others
- Market Disruption| Kiondo-inspired new products, services, and engineered solutions ideas and their impact come with a spontaneity that drives needed disruption; upending traditionally held notions of what is possible. And he has the tenacity to see it through; demonstrating time and again the success that others didn’t know existed yesterday and providing a pathway to tomorrow’s opportunities.
- Values and Beliefs| Kiondo embraces empowerment, fairness, teamwork and places mutual respect at the foundation of all relationships.
Shani Ridhuan Mringo is both the Board Secretary and Company Secretary of Petrogas Field Services Ltd. She is a highly skilled Advocate, Corporate Legal Advisor, and Governance Expert with over 10 years of experience in legal compliance, corporate governance, business advisory, and contract management.
Highly proficient in regulatory compliance, policy development, and stakeholder engagement, Mringo is dept at handling legal documentation, negotiations, and strategic advisory roles to support corporate growth.
Ms. Mringo possesses mission-critical competencies in the areas of corporate governance & compliance; business and investment advisory; legal document drafting & review; policy development and risk management; contract negotiation & Legal research; regulatory compliance and leadership & team coordination
A self-driven and results-based professional, Ms. Mringo has worked as Advocate & Corporate Legal Advisor for various firms including Tan Africa Law Chambers, which is one of Tanzania’s oldest leading law firms. During her long tenure at the firm, she provided legal advisory services on corporate governance, business mergers, and acquisitions; drafted and reviewed legal documentation including board resolutions, company policies, and compliance reports; ensure regulatory compliance with corporate laws and industry standards; advised on legal issues concerning formation, ownership, and management of companies; and represented corporate clients before courts and regulatory bodies. Other duties included conducting legal research and preparing legal opinions for corporate clients; rendering assistance in drafting board and shareholder agreements; and providing legal compliance support for corporate transactions.
While at Singo Advocates, Ms. Mringo managed the firm’s corporate legal documentation and case reporting, researched legal precedents and updated clients on regulatory changes. As a State Attorney Trainee, Ms. Mringo worked at Law Reform Commission of Tanzania where she conducted legal research on corporate governance reforms and consumer protection laws.
Ms. Mringo has also worked for various organizations as a Legal Consultant and Board Advisor for various organizations. These include Petrogas Field Services Limited where was contracted since 2022 as an Advocate & Business Investment Advisor. Other clients of Ms. Mringo include Japan Tanzania Tours Limited where performed the role of a Legal Compliance Advisor.
Summarily, Ms. Mringo possesses great experience in corporate governance and management. Her past engagements include advising businesses on regulatory compliance, risk management, and contract execution; handling board secretarial duties, including board meeting preparations,
minutes recording, and policy implementation; and assisting businesses with company formation, restructuring, and governance frameworks.
Ms. Mringo possesses relevant credentials befitting the position of Board Secretary. She has a Master’s degree of Business Administration (MBA) with a concentration on Corporate Management and a Bachelor’s degree of Laws (LLB. Besides her academic qualifications, Ms. Mringo has been trained in many areas including undergoing a Practical Legal Training Program at the Law School of Tanzania; Transformational Leadership; Halal Investing Workshop and a Certificate in Basic Computer Applications.
