Undergraduate
Alexander Thomson-Payan (right), founder and CEO of holding company Thomson Group International, is shown in Luanda, Angola, with Carlos Fernandes, country manager. Alex emails, “In 2007, I started Electrix Telecom in Angola, a mobile-phone importer, distributor, and retailer, and one of four TGI companies. TGI also owns Exceptional Service and Supply, a procurement company for the oil and gas sector, ERE, a real estate company, and 7Mobile, our mobile phone brand. The companies have prospered due to Angola’s post-war boom and my having moved here to be on the ground.”