Nairobi
Africa's Growth Capital

Our Board

• Vincent Rague (Chairman)

  Vincent Rague is the co-founder of Nairobi-based private equity company Catalyst Principal Partners, chairman of UAP Old Mutual Kenya, Financial Sector Deepening Africa, and Jambojet Aviation, the low-cost airline and subsidiary of Kenya Airways. He is also a board member of the MTN Group.

• James Irungu Mwangi

  James is the executive director of global strategy and advisory firm Dalberg Group, a non-executive director of Old Mutual Group, one of the largest financial institutions in Africa, and One Acre Fund, a non-profit organization that supplies smallholder farmers in East Africa with asset-based financing and agriculture training services.

• Jonathan Swai

  Jonathan has extensive experience in international financial market organisations and is a member of the Nairobi Securities Exchange Derivatives Market Committee. He has worked as a senior vice president at Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) where he helped establish and grow OTC Clear, as well as the London Clearing House, part of the London Stock Exchange Group.

• Carole Wainaina

  Carole is an adviser to the African Development Bank (AFDB) and the former chief operating officer of Africa50, a new investment fund set up by AFDB to focus on high-impact national and regional infrastructure projects, mainly in the energy and transport sectors.

• Albert Mwenda

  Albert is the director general, budget, fiscal and economic affairs at the National Treasury. Prior to this, Albert served as the director of the Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations Department of the National Treasury.

• Janice Kotut-Sang

  Janice is managing director of Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) InfraSolutions, a new initiative by the PIDG aimed at increasing long-term infrastructure projects in local currency across Africa and Asia. Prior to this, Janice was the regional director for GuarantCo in East and Southern Africa, which also focussed on closing the infrastructure gap in the region.

• Robert Kung'u

  Robert currently serves as a chief state counsel at the Office of the Attorney General and Department of Justice in Kenya where his main objective is to negotiate and draft international agreements and treaties, including free trade agreements and investment treaties.

• Symon Chelelgo

  Symon is an assistant director in the State Department of Trade at the Ministry of Industrialisation, Trade and Enterprise Development, where he has led work on a number of strategic initiatives in the trade sector, including engagement on the US African Growth and Opportunity Act, such as the a department he has worked in for the last 26 years.