Calisto Radithipa

CCO Kemcore Africa

Calisto Radithipa is the Founder of Kemcore and Chief Commercial Officer of Kemcore Africa, a mining chemicals and logistics business serving copper and cobalt operations across Southern Africa. He entered the sector through cross-border sourcing and built Kemcore into a supplier to mines in Zambia and the DRC by combining technical product knowledge with speed of execution, dependable delivery, and on-the-ground customer support. Over time, Calisto expanded from trading into local manufacturing and project development. He invested in industrial production in Zambia, building operational experience in commissioning, reliability, and market development—along with the realities of power constraints and supply-chain risk. Today, his focus is scaling resilient regional supply chains for mining and industrial inputs, and developing new production capacity closer to end-users to reduce cost, lead time, and import dependence. He brings a practical operator’s perspective on what it takes to move from policy ambition to bankable, executable industrial projects.