Representing our members’ business interests

About Mrs. Sonal Tejpar

Sonal Sejpal is currently the Chairperson of the British Chamber of Commerce in Kenya. Sonal is a partner at ALN Kenya | Anjarwalla & Khanna, one of the leading law firms in East Africa and the founding member of ALN, an alliance of leading corporate law firms across 15 key African jurisdictions. She has been with the firm for over 24 years and leads the firm’s banking and finance practice in addition to actively supporting A&K Tanzania, A&K’s affiliate firm in Tanzania. Her practice focuses on banking & finance, aviation, syndicated and project finance, restructurings, and insolvency. She also handles corporate commercial matters and employment law.

Sonal is the Chairperson of the British Chamber of Commerce and sits on the board of the Employment Law Alliance and is Regional Chair for Africa & the Middle East.

She is a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales, an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya and is a licensed Insolvency Practitioner in Kenya (one of only two lawyers in the entire country to have qualified as such).

She is ranked as a leading lawyer in Kenya by Chambers Global, IFLR1000, and Legal 500. Sonal graduated with a Bachelor of Laws degree at the University of Westminster, England.

About Mr. Nick Holder

Nick is currently overseeing the operations of Prudential’s Regional Hub, which was moved from London to Nairobi last year.  The Hub supports Prudential’s businesses in eight African countries and became the first member of the Nairobi International Financial Centre in July this year. Nick has been working in the Prudential Group since 2002 in the UK, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia.  Nick served as Chief Financial Officer for Prudential Vietnam from 2009-2014 and as Chief Operating Officer, Chief Corporate Development Officer & Chief Financial Officer for Prudential Indonesia between 2014 and 2021. In August 2021, he relocated to Nairobi. He currently sits on several Boards in the Prudential Group, including for Prudential Life Assurance Kenya. From 2011 to 2014, Nick was the Chairman of the British Business Group in Vietnam. In Indonesia, he was on the board of the British Chamber of Commerce from 2015 to 2021.  For some of this time he served as the British Chamber of Commerce in Indonesia’s Honorary Secretary, its representative on the Board of the European Chamber and briefly as its acting Chair. Nick has master’s degrees in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University and Business Systems Analysis and Design from City University, both in the UK. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and a Fellow of the UK’s Chartered Institute of Securities and Investments.
 

About Mr. Anthony Muthusi

Anthony has over 22 years of experience gained working with the Big Four that covers restructuring and turnaround planning, mergers and acquisition, financial due diligence, business valuation and private equity advisory. He is a licensed insolvency practitioner and a Certified Trustee from College of Insurance of Kenya.

Anthony holds an MBA from Warwick Business School and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Nairobi. He is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya (ICPAK) and has served as a board member at Endeavor and the British Chamber of Commerce.

About Mrs. Jane Karuku MGH

Ms. Jane Karuku is the Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer EABL. Ms. Karuku has been the Managing Director of Kenya Breweries Limited (KBL) since July 2015, a member of the EABL Board since 2013, and a Board member of the British Chamber of Commerce Kenya.

Ms. Karuku is a dynamic business leader, with strong management experience spanning over 20 years in FMCG and Non-Governmental organisations. Prior to her appointment to KBL, she was the President of Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). She has also previously held a number of senior positions in various companies including Deputy Chief Executive and Secretary General, Telkom Kenya and Managing Director, Cadbury East and Central Africa. Prior to that Ms. Karuku worked with Farmers Choice Kenya and Kenya Cooperative Creameries.

She has been a member of the board of Barclays Bank of Kenya and Junior Achievement-Kenya. She is currently the Chairperson of the Kenya Covid-19 Fund, Chairperson of Kenya’s Vision 2030 Board, a Trustee at the United States International University (USIU) and is a board member at Kenya Association of Manufacturers.

Ms. Karuku holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Food Science and Technology from the University of Nairobi and an MBA in Marketing from the National University of California.

About Dr. Bimal Kantaria EBS

Dr Bimal Kantaria is Managing Director at Elgon Kenya and oversees over 600 employees and operations in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia and Zambia as the largest agriculture inputs company in East Africa. He has applied his skills and knowledge extensively towards philanthropic endeavors. In 2020, H.E. President Uhuru Kenyatta awarded him the Kenya Presidential Order of Service- Uzalendo Award, for services to the nation during Covid, especially for the Flowers of Hope project, which saved thousands of Kenyan jobs. In 2020, Dr Kantaria was elected chair of the Agriculture Sector Network (ASNET), the umbrella organisation of agribusiness organisations and stakeholders seeking to steer the industry into the required transformation to drive Kenya’s economic development. Dr Kantaria has served as a National Board Director at the Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA) since 2021 and leads on Food Security and Climate Change.

About Ms. Joyce Kibe

Joyce joined the Bank in 2021. Her strong commercial acumen, skilful stakeholder engagement and ability to transform insights from data into award-winning marketing strategies has led to her achieving extraordinary business results throughout her career. Joyce has 22 years of experience in marketing, communications, consumer insights, innovation and strategic planning having worked for British American Tobacco and East African Breweries. She has held various leadership roles in Kenya, Nigeria, UK and Zimbabwe.

About Mr. Titus Mukora

Mr Titus has specialised in transfer pricing for the last 16 years. Before that he was a legal associate and a general tax consultant. He has performed numerous transfer pricing studies across industries in numerous territories in Africa including Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Nigeria, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and South Africa. He has also performed transfer pricing studies for companies in Australia. He has experience in compliance, structuring and defense work and is currently focusing on the incorporation of transfer pricing in the business strategies of companies from a compliance, transaction and supply chain perspective.

About Ms. Patricia Ithau

I am a true believer in my continent Africa, and need to build on our human capital so to market ourselves in order to transform our fortunes on the global stage. Passionate and drawing inspiration from making a difference in everything I do, I believe I have the opportunity to build role models in the corporate and entrepreneurial world, serving as a catalyst and connecting resources to help enterprise overcome adversity and seize opportunities to realize their full potential.
That belief is underpinned by my love for identifying enduring consumer and commercial insights to support the development of brands and grow businesses, that actualized in a career spanning 25 years across 3 global companies, Unilever, Diageo/EABL and L’Oreal. In the last 8 years of that career my focus was on setting up new organizations and opening new frontiers as Managing Director Uganda Breweries Ltd, Managing Director EABL International and my last role in the FMCG sector, setting up L’Oreal East Africa Ltd, a subsidiary of the Global multinational as its inaugural Managing Director. This was indeed a crowning glory having in a little over 3 years grown a business with $25million revenue, employing over 270 people, manufacturing 40 million units p.a. and closing one of the first of its kind acquisitions of a local business, in this market.
I pivoted my passion to drive scaling and transformation of SME’s the largest job creation sector in all emerging economies. I make this a reality as the Regional Director for the Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies - Seed, an initiative out of the Graduate School of Business, that supports transformation of SME’s in the East and Southern Africa region, through a year-long program. The program in the last 5 years has supported scaling of over 200 small to mid-size companies, demonstrating real impact through the age old idiom ‘teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime’.
I currently sit on the Boards of; ABSA Bank Kenya Ltd; the Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA), Jambojet Ltd and Vivo ActiveWear Ltd, all of which lean on my expertise growing enterprise. I build on the positive impact of development funding, as a board member of Trade Mark East Africa (TMEA), the multi donor initiative with the overall goal of reducing poverty in the East African region through reduction of trade barriers and increased trade competitiveness of the region; and bring to life my enduring desire to connect corporate business with social sustainability investment, as a Trustee on the Board of the Vodafone Foundation, UK.

About Mr. John Rogers

John leads the East Africa business for Turner & Townsend – a global professional services firm operating in the real estate, infrastructure, and natural resources sectors. He is a member of the Turner & Townsend Africa Board and a chair of the East Africa Board. Before joining Turner & Townsend, he was the managing director for MML formerly Mentor Management Limited, an Actis owned company. In 2018 he oversaw the merger between MML and Turner & Townsend. Since Joining Turner & Townsend he has increased the companies’ footprint to 7 countries in East Africa and is now leading the entry into other new markets. He is a commercially astute, engaging and results driven executive with more than 15 years’ construction experience and has worked previously in the Middle East, UK & Ireland. He has led multicultural teams through the complete process of project development, procurement and realization in both Private and Public Sectors. He has worked with governments, industry authorities, asset owners, investors, capital programmes and supply chain partners. Through leading teams to deliver great outcomes on projects, John has helped deliver lasting benefits for organisations, economies, and societies. Some of the recent notable projects that he has led include; The Nexus Green Solar Water Pumping systems funded by UKEF, the East Africa Breweries Limited Biomass Steam Plants in Kenya and Uganda, the Nairobi Gate Industrial Park, the Kenya Roads Annuity Programmes (Lot 15 and Lot 18) and Tilenga project that is  part of the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline project;just to name a few. He is passionate about data, technology and raising standards in construction in Africa, driving productivity, safety, efficiency, and sustainability. He believes that by leading the way digitally, there’s an opportunity to set the pace and make a positive contribution in the transformation of our industry.  
John brings with him a wealth of knowledge from different geographies and profiles and his involvement on the board will see him;

• Connect organisations and programmes to leading practice,
• Support opportunities for successful investment,
• Unlock and explore innovation opportunities and global best practice