Joe Mutugu

Joe is an accomplished and award-winning business executive with an exceptional blend of multi- sectoral and multi-cultural experience in Africa, Europe and the USA. He has spent most of the past two decades working in executive management roles in the private and public sectors and has built a track record of excellence in start-up environments and multinational corporations, as well as large government institutions. He has with over 15 years of executive management experience in the public sector, and in commercial banking, insurance, real estate, infrastructure, energy, investment banking, management consulting and auditing.

Joe served as Chief of Staff and Special Advisor to the Cabinet Secretary in the Kenya’s Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure, Housing, Urban Development and Public Works. He was also the CFO of NIC Bank (now NCBA), UAP Old Mutual East Africa, Acorn Group Ltd., among others. He started his career as an auditor with PricewaterhouseCoopers and worked as a corporate finance consultant at Deloitte Consulting and an investment banker at Merrill Lynch (now part of Bank of America) in New York City. Joe holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, a Master of Science in Financial Economics degree from the University of Oxford, and a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Finance from the University of Nairobi. He is also a Certified Public Accountant of Kenya.