Business

Sylvia Mulinge

Mulinge is the Chief Customer Officer at Safaricom PLC. She leads Safaricom's customer focus through leadership of the Consumer Business, Sales Operations, Customer Care Service, Brand Marketing & Experience, Digital and Market Development.

Rita Kavashe

Rita Kavashe is the Managing Director, Isuzu East Africa.

She has a Bachelor’s degree in Education from Moi University and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Nairobi. Kavashe is also an alumnus of the Harvard Business School. 

Jane Karuku

Jane W. Karuku was appointed the Kenya Breweries Limited Managing Director in September 2013. Before KBL, she was the President of Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA).

Karuku holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Food Science and Technology from the University of Nairobi and an MBA in Marketing from the National University of California. 

Peter Ndegwa

Peter Ndegwa is the Safaricom CEO, a position he has occupied since April 1, 2020, following the demise of Bob Collymore in 2019.

Ndegwa was previously the Europe Continental Managing Director at Diageo, a role he held since July 2018.

Narendra Raval

Dr. Narendra Raval is the founder and chairman of Devki Group, a regional manufacturing conglomerate with steel, cement and roofing sheet factories.

In March 2019, President Uhuru Kenyatta appointed Raval as the Chancellor of Egerton University.   

Mugo Kibati

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

He is also the Lake Turkana Wind Power Project (LTWP) chairman, a power project that was declared the biggest in Africa by the African Development Bank (AfDB) and occupies 40,000 acres (162km2) of land.

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.