WRobert William Collymore was a Guyanese-born Kenyan businessman who served as the chief executive officer at Safaricom, a multi-national telecommunications company based in Kenya.
WMugo Kibati is a Kenyan business executive who is the CEO of Telkom Kenya, a company that provides a full range service of fixed and mobile communication services, both voice and data, provided to the corporate, government and SME sectors.
WDavy Kiprotich Koech is a Kenyan scientist. He is currently the Chief Executive Officer Centre for Clinical & Molecular Sciences; Professor of Immunology & Molecular Medicine; Distinguished Professor, The Australian-Asian Institute of Civil Leadership.
WLinet Kwamboka, is a Kenyan computer scientist and businesswoman, who serves as the chief executive officer of DataScience Limited, an IT research company that she founded.
WMary M'Mukindia MBS is a Kenyan businessperson in the petrochemicals industry, who served as CEO of the National Oil Corporation of Kenya (NOCK) from 2003 to 2008. In 2015, several major newspapers implicated her in a bribery scandal connected to the failed 2013 presidential campaign of Martha Karua, but a subsequent court case found these charges to be malicious and false. As of 2018, she works as a consultant and leadership coach.
WEdwin Macharia is a Kenyan businessman and corporate executive. He is the global managing partner, at Dalberg Advisors, the leading impact-first advisory firm with offices in North America, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East. He was elected to that role in November 2019.
WAyisi N. Makatiani is the Managing Partner and CEO of Fanisi Capital Ltd, which manages the Fanisi Venture Capital Fund for investing in East Africa. Makatiani has been featured in The Economist, Fortune (magazine), CNN, NHK, BBC, Financial Times (London) and has been voted several times by his peers as the most respected CEO in East Africa.
WJoseph Wakaba Mucheru EGH is the current Kenyan Cabinet Secretary in the Ministry of Information and Communications. Joe has been holding that office since 2015 when His Excellency the President of Kenya Uhuru Kenyatta appointed him. He is a former Google Sub-Sahara Africa Lead based in the Google Nairobi office. He was Google's first Sub-Saharan employee and was key to setting up of Googles presence in Africa from 2007. Before joining Google he worked at Wananchi Online, a company he co-founded in 1999, in various roles at the company including Chief Technology Officer and Chief Executive Officer.
WSylvia Wairimu Mulinge, is a Kenyan businesswoman and corporate executive. Since November 2018, she serves as the Chief Customer Officer at Safaricom, reporting directly to the chief executive officer of the telecommunications company.
WCharles Mutua Mully is the founder and chief executive officer of Mully Children's Family (MCF), a Christian, non-governmental organization based in Kenya that works with disadvantaged populations. Mully is the subject of the documentary film Mully, directed by Scott Haze, which was released in October, 2017.
WWilfred Musau (1974) is the immediate former Managing Director, CEO & Executive Director of National Bank of Kenya. A position he took over from Munir Sheikh Ahmed in the year 2016. In his first year as CEO he led the bank to profitability bouncing back from a huge loss the previous year. The following year profits were up 190%. Prior to joining National Bank he had worked in various notable positions in several banks in Kenya including Kenya Commercial Bank, NIC Bank, Barclays Bank of Kenya and Standard Chartered Bank.
WMubarak Muyika, is a Kenyan American business executive, computer programmer and internet entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley. Orphaned at the age of 10, at age 16 Muyika founded Hype Century, a web hosting company which he sold two years later for six figures. He is the founder and CEO of Zagace, a company which runs an app store for businesses to access software for accounting, human resource management, marketing, among other uses.
WJames Mwangi CBS is a Kenyan accountant, career banker, businessman, and entrepreneur. He is the current Group Managing Director and Group Chief Executive Officer of Equity Group Holdings Plc, the banking conglomerate with one of the largest customer bases on the African continent, over 14 million as of December 2019.
WIda Betty Odinga is a Kenyan businesswoman, activist and educator. She is the wife of Raila Odinga, the former Prime Minister of Kenya. and the leader of National Super Alliance (NASA). In 2010, The Standard named Odinga, who was one of the first women to head a major Kenyan company, as one of the top the most powerful women in Kenya in 2010.
WJuliana Rotich is a Kenyan information technology professional, who has developed web tools for crowdsourcing crisis information and coverage of topics related to the environment. She is the co-founder of iHub, a collective tech space in Nairobi, Kenya, and of Ushahidi, open-source software for collecting and mapping information. She is a TED Senior Fellow.