Strive Masiyiwa joins Netflix board

Zimbabwean billionaire and founder of Econet Wireless has joined the Netflix board.

This comes after it was reported that Susan Rice had left the board of the streaming behemoth to join the Joe Biden administration.

“We are delighted to welcome Strive to the Netflix board,” Netflix co-founder and co-CEO Reed Hastings said in a press release. “His entrepreneurship and vision in building businesses across Africa and beyond will bring valuable insights and experience to our board as we work to improve and serve more members all around the world.”

Masiyiwa says he looks ‘forward to working with the board and all stakeholders to continue its traditions of innovation and growth.’

In addition to serving as executive chairman of Econet, the London-based Masiyiwa serves as a director for Unilever, the National Geographic Society and the Asia Society. He is a global advisory board member for Bank of America, the Council on Foreign Relations, Stanford University and the Prince of Wales Trust for Africa and is a longtime board member of the United States Holocaust Museum’s Committee on Conscience.

Masiyiwa’s continued innovation goes beyond telecoms but into the fintech with Cassava Smartech aggressively rolling out new ideas and products across the continent.