While overseeing all these activities, Carole Kariuki Karuga maintains a busy event calendar, as she champions all private sector engagements where her expertise and immense knowledge are often called upon to promote the association’s agenda of private sector growth.
Emily Waita has a broad understanding of the political, social and business operating environments within the continent having spent most of her career managing affairs in Eastern and Southern Africa, Horn of Africa, Indian Ocean Islands and Francophone Africa.
Carole Kariuki Karuga chairs the board at the Special Economic Zones Authority (SEZA), whose overall objective is to contribute towards the transformation of the country’s economic base in order to realize a higher and sustained growth, employment creation and poverty reduction in the country.
As KEPSA chairman, one of his hallmark achievements has been to lead the private sector engagement with government that resulted in the improvement of Kenya’s Ease of Doing Business ranking, and the rationalization and easing of the tax burden to mitigate the adverse effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.
John Ngumi's first stint as a public sector board chairman was in 2012, when then President Mwai Kibaki appointed him inaugural chairman at the Konza Technopolis Development Authority, the spearhead of Kenya’s bid to build an African Silicon Savannah.
Not a stranger to being recognized, Carole Kariuki Karuga was voted ‘Extraordinary Personality to Inspire the Future’ by 80 per cent of the 20,000 students of the Entrepreneurship Clubs of Kenyan Universities in 2012.
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