Business

Vimal Shah

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 Thakrar

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.

 

David Ndii

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

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).

Jane Kiringai

Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) chairperson, Jane Kiringai, was elected chairperson of the forum of Chairpersons of Constitutional Commissions and Independent Offices at the seventh annual congress held in Meru from the 10th to 12th of October, 2018.

She started her career journey as an economist at the National Treasury in the early 90s. Kiringai also served as a senior economist at the World Bank Kenya.

Mukhisa Kituyi

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.

Tony Nyaga

Tony is the Founder and CEO of Strauss Energy.

He took his Post Graduate Studies at Stanford Graduate School Of Business

In 2013-2014, he was the ECM Technical Sales Lead

He Specialises in Technology, Energy, Business Development, Relationship Development and Entrepreneurship 

Victor Shikoli

Victor is the Co-founder and COO at HydroIQ

He is also the co-founder and Operations Director at Electrosoft limited

In 2018, HydroIQ emerged among the 10 winners of a competition organized by United States-based start-up accelerator, Techstars.

 

Julianna Rotich

Julianna is a Technologist, MIT Media Lab Director's Fellow.

She is the Chair of World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Data-Driven Development.

Juliana is a Co-founder at Ushahidi Inc, a non-profit tech company,  which specialises in developing free and open-source software for changing how information flows in the world.



In 2019, she was awarded by German Chancellor Angela Merkel as the founder of software Ushahidi used for election monitoring.

Patrick Njoroge

Patrick Njoroge is currently the Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya. Following his PhD studies, he worked as an economist at the Kenyan Ministry of Finance from March 1993 until December 1994. From April 1995 until October 2005, he worked at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington DC. first as an economist and later as a senior economist. From November 2005 until December 2006, he served as the IMF mission chief for Dominica.