Dr. James Mworia Mwirigi is the Group Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Centum Investment Company PLC (Centum), a position he has held since December 1, 2008. Centum is the largest listed investment company in East Africa, with an asset base of approximately Kshs 57 Billion (USD 535mm) up from Kshs 6 Billion (USD 60mm) at the time when James took over the leadership of the organization. Centum’s focus is to offer investors access to otherwise inaccessible investment grade opportunities across key sectors of the economy, including real estate, power, financial services, agribusiness, manufacturing, and education.

Nick has considerable Africa and wider Emerging Markets operations experience and joined GardaWorld in 2016 to lead our development in East Africa. Being from Zimbabwe originally, he served in the Royal Marines for nine years on operations across the globe. Nick then spent 10 years up to 2012 as the Managing Director of Global Integrated Security based out of Dubai, a $250m security and logistics business with operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and across the region.