Dr. James Njuguna Mwangi is a Kenyan accountant, career banker, businessman and entrepreneur.
He is the current Group managing director and Group chief executive officer of Equity Group Holdings Limited, the banking conglomerate with the largest customer base on the African continent.
As of October 2014, James Mwangi was estimated to have a net worth of an upwards of Ksh17 billion.
Simon Gicharu is the founder of Mt Kenya University. At the age of 46 years, Gicharu became the youngest Kenyan to have established a chartered university in the country
The institution provides a yearly scholarship for underprivileged Kenyan students including the April 2019 edition where scholarships worth Ksh5 million were awarded.
In the past, the institution has partnered with Partners for Care (PFC), a local NGO to sustain an aggressive anti-jigger campaign in Marsabit County.
Dr. Chris Kirubi is a leading Kenyan entrepreneur with investments in the Media, Manufacturing, Property Management, Insurance and Investment Sectors of our economy.
He is an alumnus of INSEAD Institute in France, Handles University in Sweden and Harvard Business School, USA.
In acknowledgment of his contributions to the field of entrepreneurship, he was conferred with an Honorary Philosophical Doctorate in Entrepreneurship by the SMA University, Switzerland.
Vimal Shah is the founder and former CEO of Bidco that manufactures edible oils. He founded the company alongside his father and brother in 1985.
In 2019, the company expanded into the food and beverage category as a move that positions the company to become the leading manufacturer of consumer goods in East Africa.
It boasts of a portfolio of over 40 brands with over 25,000 employees.
Bharat is the founding shareholder of the WPP-Scangroup and current CEO of the WPP-Scangroup PLC.
He has working experience in advertising and communications spanning over thirty six years.
He holds a Diploma in Advertising and Marketing from the Communications and Marketing Foundation – UK.
He is a former chairman of the Advertising Practitioners Association (APA) and is a member of the Advertising Standards Board.
Wachira Waruru is the Group Managing Director of Royal Media Services which owns Citizen TV, Inooro TV and 12 other radio stations.
In September this year, under his supervision, the station’s elite investigative reporters Asha Mwilu and Waihiga Mwaura exposed brazen corruption that cost the Maasai Mara University approximately Ksh190 million.
Vice-Chancellor Mary Walingo was kicked sent on compulsory leave on Wednesday, September 11, soon after the damning exposé on Citizen TV.
Born on December 23, 1940, in Garissa District in the North Eastern Province (Northern Frontier District).
For his post-secondary education, Haji earned a diploma from the University of Birmingham, where he majored in Management and Finance Control.
Haji began his professional career in administration and management. He joined the Provincial Administration of Kenya as a District Officer and went on to serve as Provincial Commissioner between 1970 and 1997.
David Ndii is Managing Director of Africa Economics. He rose to the national limelight after he caused a stir by posting a controversial document titled “petition for self- determination,” credited to be behind the secession calls.
David Ndii co-founded the Institute of Economic Affairs, Kenya’s first independent policy think tank. He advised the NARC administration on the Economic Recovery Strategy (ERS) credited with the post-2003 recovery of the Kenyan economy.
Edward Ouko was the Auditor-General of the Republic of Kenya who was appointed on August 27, 2011. He was also an auditor-general at the African Development Bank (AfDB).
Mukhisa Kitui, of Kenya, became UNCTAD's seventh Secretary-General on 1 September 2013. After serving an initial four-year term, he was reappointed by the General Assembly in July 2017 for an additional term that began on 1 September that year.
He was elected to the Kenyan Parliament in 1992, and was twice re-elected.
From 2008 to 2012, Dr. Kituyi was a member of a team of experts advising the presidents of the nations of the East African Community on how to establish more effective regional economic links.