British American Tobacco Kenya - Samuel Onyango Okech

Nationality: Kenyan
Age: 68

POSITION: Independent Non-Executive Director since July 2019 and a member of the Board Audit and Risk Committee and Board Remuneration Committee.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE: Samuel is a former CEO of Deloitte East Africa. He has extensive audit and advisory experience, having served for over 39 years in various audit and advisory roles and has contributed to the development of the accounting profession in East, Central and Southern Africa through past roles; including as Chair of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya and President of the then East, Central and Southern Africa Federation of Accountants (ECSAFA), which he also represented in the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC). Samuel holds a Bachelor of Commerce, Accounting Option (First Class Honors) from the University of Nairobi. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya (FCPA), a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (FCA), Institute of Company Secretaries (ICS) and a Member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Uganda (ICPAU). He is also a trained Arbitrator and Mediator at the International Law Institute, George Town University, Washington DC. He is a Non-Executive Director at Equity Bank (Kenya) Limited and a Director at Jadala Investments Limited.

KEY APPOINTMENTS: 

• o   Non-Executive Director - Equity Bank (Kenya) Limited.
• o   Director - Jadala Investments Ltd.