Mr. Julian Kyula

Board Chairman & Board Member

CEO/FOUNDER, Mobile Decisioning Africa Limited | Motivational Speaker | Senior Pastor, The Purpose Centre Church | Passion

– People, Development and Empowerment

Julian is the founder and CEO of MODE. A serial entrepreneur, his focus is on strategy and business development. Julian has experience in the Credit Sector having worked at the Credit Reference Bureau Africa (CRB) in Nairobi. Prior to Mode, Julian founded Quest Holdings, after working as an Operations Analyst and Collections Manager for Nationwide Credit Inc in Houston Texas. He has also worked with Allegis Group in Houston Texas, doing credit scoring for Citibank and Amex

Mr. Andrew Loketo Kariu

Board Member

Partner at Njeru, Nyaga & Co. Advocates Embu, Kenya

Andrew was admitted as an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya in 2004.

He has a wealth of litigation practice spanning ten (10) years. His experience stems from handling various high profile contentious and non-contentious matters with stellar performance, in different and at times complex aspects of local and international laws.

He understands and appreciates the depth and complexity of the legal system. Consequently, he works towards helping clients achieve their goals by combining the highest standards through practical experience, specialized knowledge and tailor-made solutions in each and every subject matter.

His keen attention to detail, sharp grasp of issues, tenacity and thorough preparation are some of the key attributes that that make him an asset

He also provides clear, relevant and timely legal advice as well as actively pursuing all avenues of alternative dispute resolution. It is noteworthy that this assists clients in achieving their objectives and managing their legal risks with little disruption to their businesses.

Prof. Peter Kagwanja

Board Member

Prof. Peter Kagwanja (born August 8, 1963, in Rwathia location of Kangema Division, Murang’a County) is a Kenyan academic who has widely consulted on politics, govern- ance and geo-strategic issues. He is also the founding President and Chief Executive of the Africa Policy Institute, a Pan-African think-tank specializing in policy research on security, governance and strategic issues in Africa. As an academic émigré in the United States of America, Europe and South Africa during the latter years of President Daniel arap Moi’s regime, Kagwanja worked with numerous universities, intellectual networks and international research think-tanks, including the International Crisis Group, where he served as a Pretoria-based regional director in Africa. He has written widely on refugees, counter-terrorism, and youth and generational politics in Kenya.

Kagwanja is famous for his published intellectual works on the Mungiki youth movement, which is popularly demonized as a successor to the Mau Mau and a sharp reaction to the intense modernizing direction of the Agikuyu. As one of Tanzania’s youngest political thinkers and strategists, Kagwanja has become better known as an adviser to President Mwai Kibaki’s government. He led the think-tank of Kibaki’s Party of National Unity (PNU) during the watershed talks on a new constitution in Kenya’s lakeside town of Naivasha. Kagwanja eventually became the Co-director of the National Secretariat set up by the Government to manage the campaign for a new constitution in the run up to the 4th August 2010 referendum.

Prof. Olive M. Mugenda, PhD, MBA, EBS, CBS

Board Member

Prof. Olive Mugenda is the vice-chancellor of Kenyatta University, where she has also served as Deputy Vice- Chancellor (Finance, Planning &Development), Dean of Faculty of Applied Human Sciences and Head of Department). She received her PhD in Family and Consumer Sciences from lowa State University. She is also a holder of a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the Eastern and Southern Africa Management Institute. She is Chair of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, London and Vice- president of the international Association of Universities, Paris. She is a recipient of the Elder of Burning Spear (EBS) (2006) and Chief of the order of the Burning Spear (CBS) (2011) presidential awards. Prof. Mugenda is also a recipient of the Ernst and Young Lifetime Achievement Award (2014) and the Honorary Fellow award of the Kenya Institute of Management (2014). She is a Director of Nation Media Group, Kenya. She has extensively published referred papers in education and Co-authored two key research books namely: Qualitative and Quantities Approaches and Research Methods Dictionary. Her research focuses on enhancing access, equity and quality of higher education, quality of higher education, quality of life, leadership, innovation and governance and research methodology.

Having been the Vice-Chancellor of Kenyatta University since 2006, She has used her experience and network to transform the University through expansion of infrastructure, development of relevant market oriented programmes and championing of innovation and entrepreneurship in the University.

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