As Director and Deputy Managing Director of “Equity Banque Commerciale Du Congo”, Jean-Claude is in charge of the Sales, Marketing and Communications department as well as the Treasury and Trade Finance departments. He also oversees all of the bank’s operations and the activities of its IT department.

Jean-Claude Tshipama has extensive marketing and sales experience including distribution in rural areas, business development, strategic sales planning, customer relationship management acquired in the telecommunications, and paid television and satellite industries around the world, mainly in Africa but also in the Caribbean, North America and Europe.

Jean-Claude Tshipama’s career has taken him to 69 countries around the world. He was successively Commercial Manager of Celtel RDC, Commercial Director of Digicel in Haiti in the Caribbean and in Papua New Guinea. At Microsoft Corporation, Jean-Claude was Director of Distribution for 19 countries in West and Central Africa.

Then, Jean-Claude was General Manager of CANAL + in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Before this appointment to the bank, Jean-Claude was in France as Managing Director at Eutelsat SA in charge of the deployment of high speed internet in 40 countries in Africa thanks to the launch of the Konnect satellite.

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, “Equity BCDC” today serves more than 1 million customers through a network of 80 bank branches in the country and more than 3,500 bank agents to complete its digital channels, and ensures that it owns “the largest network of financial services existing in the DRC ”.