Kris Senanu

Executive Member.

Kris is an accomplished business leader with 20+ years of experience in creating enabling environments and building high-performance teams. Kris is enthusiastic about the entrepreneurial ecosystem and has helped to grow many tech businesses and mentored many tech entrepreneurs on the continent. More specifically, he has experience working with and helping to grow Startups, FinTech and Tertiary Educational Institutions. He is a transformational leader and respected ICT champion with a passion for finding, grooming, and coaching talent, and can navigate ambiguity within multi-level and matrixed organizations.

He has a tenacious commitment to driving revenue and market-share growth. He is also able to explicitly envision, enable, and successfully execute high-value complex projects. He is currently the Managing Director — of Digital Division, at Telkom Kenya, leading the charge to grow the company’s Corporate Market share in a highly competitive environment, through the introduction of more innovative solutions and strategic value addition. Prior to this, he worked with Access Kenya (Now Internet Solutions) for close to 15 years, getting that business to become the first ICT firm to list on the Nairobi Securities Exchange, expanding the business’s footprint into East Africa and steering its acquisition by Internet Solutions in 2014, before exiting as its Deputy CEO, in 2016. Before that, in 1996, he had collaborated with a pioneer tech company, Swift Global, where his career in Technology began.

Kris is a distinguished fellow of both the Chartered Institute of Marketing and the Kenya Institute of Management. He holds an MBA in Strategic Management from Warwick Business School as well as an International Business Administration Degree, majoring in Marketing, from USIU — Africa. Kris is also the Chair of the United States International University Council. Other past and present Chairmanships he holds include: The Governing Council at the Kenya Institute of Management, the Chair of the Pan African agency BTL Africa, headquartered in Ghana, and the financial solution provider Craft Silicon. More recently, he accepted a cause that is close to his heart; Board membership at the Amahoro Coalition, an African-led initiative of which he is also co-founder, who is championing the economic inclusion of refugees on the continent, majorly by way of post-secondary education.