Who governs us
The constitution of the Company’s Board as stipulated by its Articles of Association is 11 Directors. There are currently 10 Non-Executive Directors and 1 Executive Director.
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| Michael Joseph Chairman and Non-Executive Director |
Peter Ndegwa CEO and Executive Director |
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| Rose Ogega Independent Director |
Bitange Ndemo Independent Director |
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| Mohamed Shameel Aziz Joosub Non-Executive Director |
Raisibe Morathi Non-Executive Director |
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| Dilip Pal Chief Finance Officer and alternate Director to Peter Ndegwa |
Francesco Bianco Non-Executive Director |
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| Linda Watiri Muriuki Non-Executive Director |
Sitholizwe Mdlalose Non-Executive Director |
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| Winnie Ouko Independent Director |
Eng. Stanley Kamau Alternate Director to the Cabinet Secretary, National Treasury & Planning |
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| Kathryne Maundu Company Secretary |
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Michael Joseph (76) Chairman and Non-Executive Director Nationality: Kenyan and American |
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| Michael is the current Chairman of the Board of Safaricom PLC. He is the former interim Chief Executive Officer of Safaricom PLC, a position held from 2 July 2019 to 31 March 2020. He joined the Board on 8 September 2008. Previously, Michael was the Chief Executive Officer of Safaricom from July 2000 when the Company was relaunched as a joint venture between Vodafone UK and Telkom Kenya until his retirement in November 2010. During his tenure, he steered the Company from a subscriber base of less than 20,000 to over 16.71 million subscribers. This phenomenal growth straddling nearly a decade was motored by the launch of many innovative products and services such as M-PESA. Today, Safaricom is one of the leading companies in East Africa and one of the most profitable companies in the region. He has extensive international experience in company start-ups, the implementation and operation of large wireless and wire-line networks, including operations in Hungary, Spain, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Korea, the USA, Australia and the Middle East. | ||||
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Mohamed Shameel Aziz Joosub (51) Non-Executive Director Nationality: South African |
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| Shameel is the Chief Executive Officer of Vodacom Group Limited, a position he has held since 2012. He has extensive telco experience having operated at a senior level in various companies across the group for the last 22 years, including Managing Director at Vodacom South Africa and Chief Executive Officer at Vodafone Spain. Shameel holds board positions at Vodacom Group Limited, Safaricom Plc, and a number of subsidiary boards across the group. Shameel served on the Vodacom Group Board from 2000 until March 2011, when he was seconded to Spain. He was re-appointed to the Vodacom Group Board in September 2012 after his return from Spain. Shameel also sits on the board of Business Leadership South Africa. He was appointed to the Vodafone Group Exco in April 2020. | ||||
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Bitange Ndemo (62) Independent Director Nationality: Kenyan |
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Prof. Ndemo is a noted ICT industry expert who currently lectures on entrepreneurship and research methods at the University of Nairobi’s Business School. Most of his research centres on the link between ICT and small and medium enterprises in Kenya. He was awarded the prestigious presidential Chief of the Burning Spear of Kenya (CBS) for his distinguished services in 2006. Prof. Ndemo was previously a Permanent Secretary of Kenya’s Ministry of Information and Communication where he was credited with facilitating many transformative ICT projects, a Senior advisor to UN’s Global Pulse (Big Data initiatives) and the UNCDF’s Better than Cash Alliance and UNICEF’s Innovation Council. He is an Open Data/Big Data evangelist and dedicated to simplification (visualisation) of data for ordinary citizens to consume. He writes two columns every week for the Business Daily and Nation on-line. |
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Francesco Bianco (50) Non-Executive Director Nationality: Italian |
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| Francesco is the global talent, capabilities and organisational Development Director at Vodafone and an Alternate Non-Executive Director in the Vodacom Group Board. Francesco has had a vast career in human resource (HR), spanning over 15 years. He originally joined Vodafone Italy in 2000 and has extended his career portfolio internationally in other HR Director roles. | ||||
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Dilip Pal (56) Chief Finance Officer and alternate Director to Peter Ndegwa Nationality: Indian |
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Dilip, who joined Safaricom as the Chief Finance Officer in November 2020, has more than 31 years of experience in finance, spanning various industries including telecoms, financial services, fast-moving FMCG and Engineering in international and multi-cultural environments. Dilip has a proven track record of building competent teams, improving performance, business turnaround, simplification, and digitisation. His division is responsible for the overall financial planning, management, and oversight of the organisation. Previously, he was the CFO of DTAC Thailand, a part of the Telenor Group, since 2017. Prior to DTAC, he was the CFO of Grameenphone Bangladesh, a role that he held for three years. Before Grameenphone, Dilip held various finance roles in Vodafone India in Mumbai, rising to the role of EVP Finance. He has also held senior finance roles in other organisations, namely Hutchinson Essar, Hindustan Coca Cola Beverages and Tata Tinplate. Dilip has held board positions in various institutions including Carousell, Singapore (leading online classified company of South Asia), Tele Assets, Thailand (DTAC subsidiary), Accenture Bangladesh (joint venture of Accenture and Telenor), Indus Tower (JV with Bharti Airtel and Idea) and Vodafone Essar Spacetel Limited (Vodafone India subsidiary). |
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Winnie Ouko (52) Independent Director Nationality: Kenyan |
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Winnie has over 25 years of professional finance, strategy and board-level experience, serving corporates and non-profits in Africa, Europe and the US. She is the founder and CEO of Lattice Consulting (member of Larive International, nl), a Kenya-based boutique advisory firm committed to propelling its clients to growth via strategy and finance advisory and corporate training. Winnie’s career includes a stint as an associate Director at Standard and Poor’s in New York and PricewaterhouseCoopers in Nairobi. She is a fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network, and is a leadership adviser with Adaptive Change Advisors, (NY). |
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Kathryne Maundu (43) Company Secretary Nationality: Kenyan |
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| Kathryne is a Partner at Stamford Corporate Services LLP. She is recognised as a leading expert in corporate governance matters having advised leading corporates in the public and private sectors for over 15 years. She is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya; a member of the Law Society of Kenya; a registered practicing Certified Public Secretary; and an Accredited Governance Auditor with the Institute of Certified Secretaries – Kenya. She has been recognised as a leader in society and named as Top 40 under 40 Women in Kenya. | ||||
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Peter Ndegwa (53) CEO and Executive Director Nationality: Kenyan |
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Peter is the CEO of Safaricom PLC, a leading communications company in Africa and pioneer of M-PESA, the world’s most developed mobile payment system. Peter is the first Kenyan to serve as a CEO of Safaricom. He is an experienced board-level leader with a wealth of experience in general management, commercial and business strategy, sales and finance operations, having spent over 25 years in various roles within the financial services and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) sectors in Africa and Europe. In his most recent role, Peter was responsible for Diageo PLC operations in 50 countries in Western and Eastern Europe, Russia, the Middle East, and North Africa regions. Previously, he served as CEO in Guinness Nigeria PLC and Guinness Ghana Breweries PLC, transforming the two operations to deliver double-digit growth by investing in people, introducing new brands and re-organising the businesses. As a chief executive in several markets within the Diageo group, Peter demonstrated the ability to transform businesses and organisations to deliver superior results. Peter served for eight years across a range of senior Executive Director roles at East Africa Breweries Limited (EABL) (a Diageo subsidiary) based in Nairobi. Serving as the Group CFO, Group Strategy Director, sales Director, and as an Executive Director on the EABL board, he was part of the team that saw the EABL business more than double in value – and winning the coveted Most Respected Business Award in East Africa for five years in a row. Peter is credited with the development of an affordable beer strategy for EABL, resulting in the production of new brands such as Senator beer which became one of the most successful innovations by Diageo. He has a real passion for delivering value to customers (with his principle of customer first), investing in talent, and getting things done. He started his career at PwC, the global consulting firm, where he worked for 11 years. Peter draws his inspiration from his early upbringing, laying the foundations for his strong value set, from his teachers and the legendary Dr Geoffrey Griffin – the late founder of Starehe Boys Centre – his alma mater, and from his parents. |
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Linda Watiri Muriuki (58) Non-Executive Director Nationality: Kenyan |
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| Linda serves as the senior partner at LJA Associates. She is a practicing Advocate of the High Court of Kenya with over 27 years’ experience ranked by Chambers and Partners in 2015 and 2016. Linda is a Commissioner of Oaths, Notary Public, Certified Public Secretary (Kenya), a member of the Institute of Directors (K) and The Law Society of Kenya, a Chevening Scholar and an Eisenhower Fellow of Kenya. | ||||
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Rose Ogega (62) Independent Director Nationality: Kenyan |
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Rose has extensive experience spanning over 25 years in advising and managing both large, complex organisations and emerging start-up ventures. In recognition of her contribution to the economic development of the country, she was awarded the Moran of the Burning Spear in 2005. Rose is the managing Director of Bloom Consultancy Limited. She is currently a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network, the Institute of Directors of Kenya, the African Leadership Initiative and the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya. She is a Certified Hogan Lead Assessor, an executive coach and a member of the Academy of Executive Coaches. |
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Raisibe Morathi (53) Non-Executive Director Nationality: South African |
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Raisibe is the Chief Financial Officer of Vodacom Group, South Africa. She joined Vodacom from Nedbank Group Limited where she had been the Group Chief Financial Officer since September 2009. Raisibe has spent over 26 years in the financial services industry in South Africa and has acquired experience in banking and insurance. Raisibe has previously served as an Executive Director of Sanlam Limited and prior to that as an executive of the Industrial Development Corporation. Her experience spans Investment Banking, Private Equity, Corporate Lending and Insurance. In her career she also served in various boards of listed and non-listed companies in her executive capacity or a shareholder representative. She has extensive experience in audit committees where her experience includes serving as a member of the committee or chairperson. |
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Sitholizwe Mdlalose (42) Non-Executive Director Nationality: British |
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Sitho is currently the Managing Director of Vodacom Tanzania a position that he has held since August 2021. He transitioned to the role of Managing Director of Vodacom South Africa with effect from 1 July 2022. He joined Vodafone Group in January 2007 and worked in various roles in the United Kingdom, including as Finance Manager, Head of Internal Audit Unit and as Senior Finance Manager: Africa, Middle East & Asia Pacific Regions, for over six years. He thereafter relocated to South Africa in August 2013 and joined Vodacom Group where he continued to hold various leadership roles including Chief Finance Officer for International Business. He was then Interim Group Chief Finance Officer and Finance Director for Vodacom South Africa, before being appointed to MD, Vodacom Tanzania in 2021. |
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Eng. Stanley Kamau (63) Alternate Director to the Cabinet Secretary, National Treasury & Planning Nationality: Kenyan |
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| Eng. Kamau, is currently the Director General, Public Investments and Portfolio Management Directorate at the National Treasury that is responsible for coordinating, managing and providing leadership in government investments and public enterprises, assets and liabilities in Government, public investment management and government pensions. In his current role, he has led reforms that include the successful swap of Government shares in National Bank of Kenya to Kenya Commercial Bank, on-going restructuring of Kenya Airways, restructuring of balance sheets for several commercial state corporations, on-going government privatization programmme and reforms in prudent financial management of state corporations. | ||||
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