Business

Joshua Oigara

Joshua Oigara is the Group Chief Executive Officer of the Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB), the biggest bank by asset base.

He holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Nairobi as well as an accounting certification at Strathmore University School of Accountancy. He also holds a Master of Business Administration from Edith Cowan University.

Michael-Anthony Macharia

Mike Macharia is the CEO of SevenSeas Technology Group.

He is a qualified Chartered Accountant and entrepreneur, having founded SevenSeas Technologies (SST) Group at the age of 25 in the year 2000.

In April 2018, a business publication dedicated to commerce and agriculture issues across the country, Bizna Kenya, announced Macharia as the newest entrant into the billionaires' club in Kenya.

Manu Chandaria

Dr. Manu Chandaria, OBE, EBS, is founding chairman of the East African Business Council and the Kenya Private Sector Alliance, an umbrella body representing over two hundred sectors and organizations.

He is a Council member of the University of Nairobi which awarded him a Doctorate of Sciences.

In 2003 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II conferred an OBE (Order of the British Empire) in recognition of his community work and promotion of Kenyan economic interests.

Ken Njoroge

Ken is a co-founder and also serves as the group Co-CEO of Cellulant, a leading multinational one-stop digital payments company.

In 2019, he proved to be the most resilient CEO of the year, considering that his company, which has firmly planted its roots across the continent, emerged from the dark shadows of the Riverside attack that claimed 21 lives.

The company lost six of its managerial staff during the mid-January attack.

Joshua Oigara

Joshua Nyamweya Oigara (born 1975, Kisii, Kenya) is the current Group Chief Executive Officer of the Kenya Commercial Bank Group, the biggest banking group in Kenya by asset base.

Prior to his appointment, he served as Chief Financial Officer and Member of the Board of Directors of the Company between January 12, 2012, and January 2013.

In 2015, Joshua Oigara publicly declared his wealth as a net worth of Ksh220 million, made up of total assets of Ksh350 million and loan obligations of Ksh130 million, and a monthly gross salary of Ksh4.9 million.

John Gachora

John Gachora is the Managing Director of NIC bank.

He holds a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, as well as an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA.

He joined NIC from Barclays Africa where he had been Managing Director and Head of Corporate & Investment Banking.

James Mworia

James Mwirigi Mworia is a Kenyan lawyer, accountant, and business executive.

He is the managing director and chief executive officer of Centum Investment Company, the largest publicly traded private capital firm in Eastern Africa.

He has served in that capacity since 2008.

In October 2016, he was appointed Chancellor of Machakos University, a public university in Machakos County, Kenya.

Michelle Ntalami

Michelle Ntalami is a budding entrepreneur who founded and serves as the CEO of Marini Naturals.

Her journey into the world of natural hair-care products was inspired by her dad, who was battling cancer.

She decided to cut her hair in solidarity with her father during his brave battle, and it was during this period that she had her 'light bulb moment,' going on to launch several natural hair-care products for all sexes.

In 2018, she was crowned as the female entrepreneur of the year in the inaugural Business Daily Newspaper's Top 40 Under 40 Women.

Mugo Kibati

Mugo Kibati is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the country's third-largest telecommunication company.

He is the Lake Turkana Wind Power Project's (LTWP) chairman, President Uhuru Kenyatta's power project that was declared the biggest in Africa by the African Development Bank (AfDB).

He was also the founder and former Director-General, Kenya Vision 2030 Delivery Secretariat which was responsible for spearheading the implementation of Vision 2030.

Peter Ndegwa

Peter Ndegwa was October 24, 2019, announced as the new Chief Executive Officer of Safaricom and was expected to assume the office on April 1, 2020.

Currently, Ndegwa oversees the operations of Diageo PLC, a British multinational alcoholic beverages company, in 50 countries in Western and Eastern Europe, Russia, Middle East and North Africa region.