KENGEN Managing Director and CEO Rebecca Miano in a Friday interview with Business Daily confessed her passion for knitting sweaters and termed it as relaxing and good for meditation.
Miano, who is the first female CEO to hold that position at the state corporation since 1954, stated that she sets aside some time every Friday to engage in her favourite pass time activity.
"I knit as a hobby; it’s great mental therapy because you are really concentrated to ensure the pattern is going well because when you make a mistake you have to undo everything.
"It is so intense because you’re reading a pattern. Most Friday evenings are for knitting for like two hours," she told writer Jackson Biko.
She added that her immediate family members have been beneficiaries of her hobby making pieces that they can comfortably wear.
"I have knitted a very good sweater for my husband. He likes it so much we want to hide it because he is always wearing it," she exclaimed jokingly.
Miano further conveyed that she learnt knitting as a hobby while in lower primary and she fell in love with the art adding that she also loved watching plays.
Rebecca was appointed Managing Director and CEO of Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KENGEN) since November 2017.
She rose from being the company secretary and legal affairs director to become its first female CEO in 65 years.
“I started working at the lowest position possible in the company and I rose through the ranks; a testament that one should be ready to walk through the whole system patiently, diligently because eventually, it lands you where you should be,” she explained.
The CEO also encouraged ladies aspiring to clinch high offices to remain focused and believe in themselves.
“I thought this job was reserved for engineers, actually male engineers, doctors, you know the type. In fact when it was advertised, I still had that mentality but when I applied and was given a fair opportunity to compete and emerged at the top the confidence boundaries were no longer there,” she asserted.
Her outstanding service earned her the Order of the Grand Warrior in 2010.
