CEO

Jane Karuku is a Kenyan businesswoman and current Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the East African Breweries Limited.

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.

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.

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.

Eddah Gachukia is an entrepreneur synonymous with being the co-founder of the Riara group of schools.

She is also the founding Executive Director of the Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE), an organisation that has received several awards and honours for its contribution to female education in Africa. 

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.

She is the head of Bata Shoe Kenya PLC — the country’s largest footwear company.  Thotho’s role is overseeing 3,000 employees and about 150 stores in the country. 

She is Bata Kenya’s first female CEO since it began its operations in 1939.

Yukabeth Kidenda is the co-founder of Teach for Kenya, an organisation aimed at supporting underprivileged communities to access quality education.

She founded the organization Human Link through which she was able to support hundreds of at-risk youth in Kenya through mentorship, academic assistance, and healthcare.  

Peter Muthoka is the founder and CEO of Acceler Global Logistics, one of Kenya's largest freight and logistics companies. 

They plan, implement, and operate complex supply chain solutions on a national, regional, and global scale on behalf of several large international companies in Kenya.