Board of Directors

John is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya and Senior Partner at Simba & Simba, Advocates. Previously he has worked with the Attorney General’s Chambers, and also as Executive Director /CEO of Industrial & Commercial Development Corporation (now Kenya Development Corporation), Executive Director of the Technical Unit of the Parastatal Reform Program and Executive Chairman/CEO of National Bank of Kenya.

Additionally, he has previously served as Chairman; Federation of Kenya Employers, Kenya Bankers’ Association, Retirement Benefits Authority, University of Nairobi Council and as President of the Rotary Club of Nairobi. Currently, he is Chairman of Sanlam Kenya Plc., Choice Tea Brokers Limited, Funguo Investments Limited. He also serves as a director in other companies including Hima Cement Ltd. in Uganda and Almasi Beverages Limited a Coca-Cola Beverages Africa Ltd subsidiary and Africa Energy Group Ltd.

John is a member of the Law Society of Kenya, East African Law Society, International Bar Association and the Institute of Directors, Kenya.

John is the Chair of the Board of Directors and Chair of the Nomination, Remuneration & HR Committee (NR&HRC).

John was appointed to the Board on 29 November 2012

Mr. Mohit Kapoor was appointed as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, effective April 1, 2023, subject to regulatory approvals. Mr. Kapoor, has a proven track record of driving consistent business growth and maximizing value through sustainable cost and operational efficiencies.

He has over 16 years of corporate leadership experience, having held several high level leadership positions within the Holcim Group, including as Readymix Qatar LLC & Aljabor Cement Limited’s Country CEO in Doha, Qatar, Holcim India’s Head of Growth and Innovation, Lafarge India’s Managing Director of Readymix Projects, and Health & Safety Vice President – APAC.

Mbuvi started his career in Audit and Consultancy working for Price Waterhouse in the UK and Kenya (1990-98), and then for Lafarge in various positions (1998-2011).

At Lafarge, he was first Finance Director for Bamburi Cement in Kenya, Managing Director Hima Cement in Uganda, VP Group Internal Communications at the Lafarge HQ in Paris, and GM Mbeya Cement Tanzania. He then joined Kenya Airways (2011-2017) as Chief Operating Officer, before his appointment as Group Managing Director and CEO.

He is currently a part time Senior Advisor- Strategy and Operations for Catalyst Principal Partners, an Eastern Africa focused PE fund, where he spends his time driving operational excellence and mentoring executives. He re-joined the Board of Bamburi Cement as a non-Executive Director, and is Chairman of both the Safarilink Aviation Limited and Sustainable Power Solutions (a Pan African solar company) Boards. As part of his paying it forward, Mbuvi sits on the Board of Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, the foremost conservancy organisation in Kenya as Vice Chairman, and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee and the Board of Northern Rangeland Trust. He is also Chair of the Board of St Andrews School Turi, Chair of the Kenya Association of Air Operators, and provides mentorship to scale up entrepreneurs with Endeavor Kenya.

He has previously served on the Boards of Bamburi Cement, Hima Cement, Mbeya Cement, (all Lafarge majority owned companies), and served as Secretary to the East African Cement Producers Association. He also served on the Boards of Kenya Airways plc, Precision Air Tanzania and Jambojet, Chaired the Executive Committee of African Airlines Association (AFRAA), and was a member of Board of Governors of IATA.

Mbuvi was appointed to the Board on 30 August 2018 and serves on the Audit & Risk and the Nomination, Remuneration & HR Committees.

Rita is a captain of the automotive industry with over 20 years’ experience and the Managing Director of Isuzu East Africa Limited (formerly General Motors East Africa), the largest motor vehicle assembler in East Africa. She joined General Motors in 1995 as a Direct Sales Executive and held several key roles in Sales & Marketing, both in Kenya and South Africa before her appointment as Managing Director in 2011.

She is the currently a member of the Advisory Council of the Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA), Advisory Board Member of the Palmhouse Foundation, member of the University of Eldoret Endowment Trust Board of Trustees and Chair of the Board of British American Tobacco Kenya plc.

She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Education from Moi University – Kenya and a Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Nairobi. She is also an executive coach certified by the Academy of Executive Coaches (AOEC) UK. In 2017, she was awarded the Moran of the Order of the Burning Spear (MBS) for exemplary service to the Country as a business leader.

Rita serves on the Audit & Risk Committee.

She was appointed to the Board on 9 March 2017.

Helen is currently the Conservation Ambassador for Africa for Fauna and Flora International. From December 2012 to January 2017 she served as Equity Group Foundation’s Managing Director. Prior to that, she led the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) for 11 years having joined AWF as its first Director of the Heartlands Program in 2001 and rising to become the Vice President for Programs in 2002 and AWFs first President in 2007. Helen has worked at the Wildlife Conservation Society and African Conservation Centre, where she was the Managing Director.

She is a recipient of several awards including the Charlotte Wyman Trust’s Women in Conservation Program and the Giai Environmental Award for 2012 at the WIFTs Foundation International Visionary Awards.

She is a fellow of the Aspen Institute’s Energy and Environment Program and a McCluskey Fellow of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

She previously served on the boards of Equity Bank Kenya Ltd and the Kenya Wildlife Service. Her current board positions include Equity Group Holdings Ltd, Ol Pejeta Conservancy and the African Wildlife Foundation.

Helen serves on the Nomination, Remuneration & HR Committee.

She was appointed to the Board on 9 March 2017.

Alice is a career tax administrator having served the Kenya Revenue Authority for 31 years in various critical areas of tax administration and diverse locations in Kenya since joining in 1984 as an assessor and retiring as Commissioner, Domestic Taxes in 2016. She was part of the KRA transformation team leading in the automation revolution and shift from manual back office processes through iTax implementation together with restructuring of the domestic taxes department to support devolution.

Further to sitting in various committees in KRA, Alice has also been Audit Committee chair and Chair of the Kenya Institute of Management (KIM), Kenya liaison for Commonwealth Association of Tax Administration and founder president of the Soroptimist International Club of Milimani. She is a Fellow of the KIM while also serving as a director of the Centre for Corporate Governance, Prudential Life Assurance Kenya, Crown Paints Kenya PLC and Moving The Goalposts.

Alice is the Chair of the Audit & Risk Committee and a member of the Nomination, Remuneration & HR Committee. She also serves as a member of the National Civil Aviation Administrative Review Tribunal.

Alice was appointed to the Board on 9 March 2017.

Eugene Antera was Group Chief Finance Officer of the Company effective 1st June 2023, subject to regulatory approvals. He is a dynamic business leader, with strong management and finance experience spanning over 15 years in manufacturing, transportation and banking. His wealth of expertise encompasses among others strategy development, business performance, operations, project management, internal controls management, process improvement, financial reporting, budgeting and forecasting.

Prior to his appointment, Mr. Antera was the Operations Controller of the Company. He joined Holcim Group in 2007 and has held several roles including Business Analyst, Sub Sahara Africa (Lafarge Middle East Africa), Growth Controller, Supply Chain Controller and overall Country Controller (Kenya).

Prior to that he worked with Rift Valley Railways as the Financial Planning Analysis Manager and also at East African Portland Cement PLC as a Business Controller. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree (Finance) from the University of Nairobi and is a Certified Public Accountant. He is a member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya.

Joyce was appointed Company Secretary effective July 20, 2023.

She is an accomplished Governance, Legal, and Compliance professional with broad career expertise in the nancial services and Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) industries, as well as in independent consultancy.

She was previously the Senior Legal Manager & Company Secretary at East African Breweries Limited, the Legal Services Manager & Assistant Group Company Secretary at Equity Bank Group, and the Legal Officer at United Insurance Company.

She holds a Master’s in Business Administration (Strategic Management) from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture & Technology, Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from India’s University of Pune and a Diploma in Law from the Kenya School of Law (KSL).