Jane Karuku The Board of East African Breweries Limited (EABL) announced that Jane Karuku will be taking over as the new Group Managing Director for EABL.
Karuku, who has been a member of the EABL Board and the current Managing Director for KBL, will replace Andrew Cowan who has been in the EABL business for four and a half years.
Cowan is taking up a new role in Diageo’s global business as Managing Director for Africa Regional Markets.
Karuku is a dynamic business leader, with strong management experience spanning over 25 years in fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) and non-governmental organisations.
A consummate leader, her expansive experience straddles strategy development, operational management, marketing as well as organisational change management.
Prior to joining KBL, Karuku was the president of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), where she was responsible for one of Africa’s largest grant-making organisations in the food security and agricultural development sector.
Previously, she has held a host of senior positions in various other organisations including Cadbury’s East & Central Africa as Managing Director before joining Telkom Kenya, as Deputy Chief Executive and Secretary General.
At Cadbury’s, she was responsible for operations in 14 countries across Africa and during her tenure she conceived and implemented a highly successful growth programme for the business in this period.
Before Cadbury’s Mrs. Karuku worked with Farmer’s Choice Kenya and Kenya Co-operative Creameries (now known as New KCC).
Karuku has served on several boards including Barclays Bank and is currently a Trustee of Precious Sisters, an organisation that empowers bright and underprivileged girls though education.
She is the current Chairperson of Kenya Vision 2030 Board and recently led the Kenya Covid-19 Fund Board that was created by President Uhuru Kenyatta to marshal funds for combating the Coronavirus disease.Karuku will be replaced in the role of Managing Director, Kenya Breweries by John Musunga.Musunga has more than 25 years of experience in general management, sales, and marketing.He joins EABL from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) where he began his career as a sales representative and progressed through roles of increasing responsibility including that of Managing Director and General Manager of their Kenya and East Africa Business.He has most recently been responsible for leading GSK’s vaccines business in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Eastern Europe.He has previously worked in regional and global roles and lived in Belgium and South Africa. Mr. Musunga has served on several boards in various capacities.He served as a Non-Executive Director for […]
