THE BOARD

Bridgette Banda
Lives in Lusaka and is married to James Banda, Nenani's older brother. She has a master’s degree in marketing and previously worked as Marketing Director at DHL in Zambia. Bridgette works as a volunteer for the organization “Children in Crisis”. Her 14 year old son Anthony plays with Chiparamba Great Eagles. The family is affluent and helps some of the Chiparamba players with school fees, medication, food, burials and so forth. Bridgette and James have sponsored Chiparambas trips to Gothia Cup in Gothenburg at two occasions.

Nenani Banda
The son of Rupiah Banda. Rupiah is the chairman of Chiparamba and vice president of Zambia. Nenani founded Chiparamba in 1997 and is today managing director for Chiparamba and the Zambian U-17 national team. Lives in Johannesburg, is an expert football commentator for Zambian national TV and responsible for the football tournament “Coca Cola Cup”. Studied at Cambridge, Crans Montana and Honolulu.

Lennart Bäckman
Businessman who rarely misses an Örgryte IS game. He loves music and has excellent taste. Likes to keep things in order and handles all the administration around Chiparamba Great Eagles. Lennart has taken business trips to Africa a number of times with his supporter and friend Dan (with more or less successful results as the rumours say).

Kent Sander
Venture capitalist and sports freak who nurtures a great interest in music and sports. Mr Sander has been a resident of the USA for over 20 years during which time he played a big role in making Ericsson a dominant player in the cellular phone industry. Since 1997, Mr Sander has devoted most of his professional time towards investing in mobile communication companies. He was also the CEO of TruePosition between 1997 and 2004. TruePosition is now the world’s leading mobile positioning company. During Mr Sander’s years as CEO the company grew from 4 employees to 600, while sales grew to a whopping 300 million USD in 2004. Mr Sander is a childhood friend of Klas Björkhagen and a big supporter of the Chiparamba Foundation and it’s vision:
“Let’s make a difference, folks”.

Mikael Santoft
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Klas Björkhagen
Took the initiative to start the Chiparamba Foundation in the fall of 2004, as a result of a trip to Lusaka during Easter the same year. When he witnessed the miserable conditions that many of the kids in Lusaka live in every day, Klas decided that something had to be done. Klas is a huge football fan and music lover, with Neil Young as the No.1 hero. He runs an advertising firm in Stockholm whenever he's got time to spare. He lives by the somewhat cliché motto of “combining work with pleasure”.

Amanda Ekman
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