He is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at one of Kenya’s leading financial institutions, Equity Bank.
He was born in 1962 in Kangema, Murang’a county. James was brought up by a single mum (Grace Mwangi) alongside his six siblings, after losing his father very early in life.
Mehta is the founder of Tangerine Investments, an outdoor advertising firm that uses public transit vehicles, litter bins, and street poles to market-leading consumer goods in Kenya.
He started his business from practically nothing, venturing into the import of liquid tyre sealants from China in 2008.
Rita Kavashe is the managing director of Isuzu East Africa.
Previously, she held a number of roles including domestic sales and distribution manager, sales and marketing director, commercial director, GM Sub-Saharan African manager among others.
Anerlisa Muigai is a Kenyan entrepreneur, the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Nero- a company that produces Executive drinking mineral water.
Born in 1988, She is the oldest daughter of Keroche Breweries CEO, Tabitha Karanja and Joseph Karanja. In 2011, she founded Nero, a water company where she serves as the Chief Executive Officer.
She employs a team of 8 people including a Strategy consultant and Finance Consultant as well as sales representatives.
The Co-operative Bank Managing Director joined the bank in 1996 as a Senior Corporate Manager and later became its Director-Corporate and Institutional Banking in 1999.
Dharmesh Savla is the Chief Executive Officer of the Tononoka Rolling Mills Limited, a manufacturing company that is located in Nairobi and is one of the leading manufacturers in the steel industry in Kenya.
The company was started in 1980 as a hardware shop named Tononoka Hardware Limited and has since grown to become a global company with a branch in Rwanda.
Tabitha Karanja is the Founder and CEO of Keroche Breweries, the first and largest brewery in Kenya owned by a non-multinational company.
Keroche breweries’ accounts for more than 20 per cent of beer consumption in the country.
Priscilla Muhiu, is the General Manager Kenya, for the Spanish delivery firm Glovo. She was appointed in September 2020.
She previously worked as Head of Marketing at both Sendy and OLX.
Jimnah Mbaru is the owner of the Dyer & Blair Investment Bank which was established in Kenya in 1954.
The company specialises in Corporate Finance and Advisory and currently handles the largest Initial Public Offering (IPO) for MTN Uganda.
Lizzie has made a name for herself, especially in the education sector, and is one of the few women who have built a multibillion empire stretching to real estate and hospitality.
With a Ksh10 million capital investment, Lizzie began the Nairobi Institute of Business Studies (NIBS) with only 25 students and two teachers. The business struggled for eight months but slowly began to pick up.