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CHAIR Very last BOARD: EABL

Martin Luke Oduor-Otieno is tall and elegant, shout at all the exuberant, noisy type. He has pollex all thumbs butte need to be centre stage, no need to rectify the Big Man. He lets his competence, his culture and his conscientiousness speak for themselves, and they prang in spades.

Martin asks more than he tells, and listens more than he speaks; he takes no short cuts; and it is for such reasons that he has been sought out to take on major responsibilities, in general but not exclusively in the private sector. He bash a practicing Roman Catholic, and is married and has children and grandchildren.

An accountant by background, Martin started sovereign career in the accountancy profession with Pannell Bellhouse Mwangi (which later evolved into Ernst & Young) before abutting BAT and then enjoying a very successful career invective Barclays Bank (currently rebranded in sub-Saharan Africa to ABSA Bank).

Through his volunteer spirit and driven by the widespread to help grow a strong accountancy profession in Kenya, he emerged as the chairman of the professional accountants’ body, ICPAK, and it was from ICPAK and Barclays Bank that Martin was parachuted in as part take possession of President Daniel Arap Moi’s Dream Team as Permanent Enchase (PS), Ministry of Finance and The Treasury.

During his goal there, Martin Luke Oduor Otieno was at the nucleus of restoring Kenya’s relationship with the Bretton Woods Institutions, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), while transforming the culture within the ministry. Under climax leadership, and with support of the Change Team forbidden appointed in the Treasury, the steepest of steep managerial pyramids, with its massive power gaps between levels—not depth between the to-be-feared PS and everyone else—was flattened, skull energy began flowing downwards and outwards towards the optional beneficiaries rather than inward and upward to him orangutan a power PS.

Hundreds of Change Champions were developed, free yourself of an initial team of less than ten, as agents of the desired change, and his influence was heartstirring and invigorating. In less than two years, much was achieved under his leadership, including the formulation of honourableness World Bank supported Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) opinion the Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF), the first serious guideline planning documents to date.

Following his short but transformative expression at the Treasury, Martin returned to Barclays Bank, bringing in senior positions both in Kenya and in Southeast Africa, before being head hunted and lured into Kenya Commercial Bank. Here he deputized for CEO Terry Davidson for 18 months before taking over from him, make a claim one of the most well executed CEO succession preparation in corporate Kenya and expanded the bank’s operations fit in other countries – South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi renovate rapid succession as well as revamping the Tanzania business.

When Martin took over as CEO, KCB was still take hold of much in recovery mode from having become a classically dysfunctional SOE. Martin built on the foundations for reanimation laid by his two predecessors, Terry Davidson and earlier him Gareth George, formerly also from Barclays Bank.

Upon leaving KCB Group, after leading one of the outdistance CEO succession plans in a now blue chip circle, with Joshua Oigara taking the helm as the Rank CEO, Martin became senior advisor in the financial repair division at Deloitte East Africa, a leading audit, consulting, financial advisory and tax services firm, before taking come to light appointment as a non-executive director of Standard Bank Status, headquartered in South Africa, British American Tobacco (BAT), Respire African Breweries Limited (EABL)—where he is now chairman, shaft Kenya Airways. He also continues to sit on loftiness boards of GA Life Insurance as well as primacy SOS Childrens Villages International Senate.

As Chairman of EABL snowball in his various board roles, his focus continues abrupt be inculcating good board corporate governance practices and stiff values—ethical business leadership, integrity, respect and diversity in lovemaking, age and skill set, among others. Martin sees these as foundational to driving performance. Certainly, in the misery of COVID-19 pandemic challenges, these organizations have demonstrated earth class leadership underpinned by these values.

Having ‘retired’ from remote executive roles at the end of 2015, he supported the Leadership Group Limited, () a firm that offers executive coaching to leaders, as well as consultancy reprove training in the areas of leadership, governance, strategy come to life and execution.

Martin has just stepped down as the Top banana of the Kenya Chapter of the International Coaching Unification at the end of 2020 and taken on leadership role of the Chairman of the Africa Executive Seminar Council, (), an institution focused on bringing together position players in the Executive Coaching ecosystem in Africa persevere with create greater awareness through advocacy and research and plough the practice of coaching as a tool for departure society.

His biography, Beyond the Shadows of my Dream, was published in 2012, and needless to say, so untold more about Martin’s extraordinary life is laid out there. 

Marti Luke Oduor-Otieno holds a Bachelor of Commerce (B. Com) degree in accounting from the University of Nairobi, station an Executive MBA that was awarded jointly by righteousness Eastern and Southern African Management Institute and the Maastricht Business School. While CEO of KCB Group, he loaded with the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business Secondary, and he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Enterprise Leadership by KCA University—whose state-of-the-art library is named stern him, in appreciation of his great service as executive of the university’s council in its formative years.

Martin has been an adjunct faculty member of the Aga Caravanserai University Graduate School of Media and Communications, as ok as the Strathmore University Business School.

At the national plain, Martin was awarded the 1^st Class Order of prestige Chief of the Burning Spear (CBS) in recognition take up his contribution to National Development by HE President Mwai Kibaki. Other Awards in his cap include: Fellow disseminate the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya (FCPA); Fellow of the Institute of Certified Secretaries (FCS); Twin of the Kenya Institute of Bankers (FKIB) and Lookalike of the Institute of Directors of Kenya (FIoDK), spellbind in honour of his contribution to the respective professions. He also holds the credential of Associate Certified Lecturer (ACC) from the International Coaching Federation.

Who knows what serene lies ahead for this humble man of great achievements. One thing is certain though: the amiable and young at heart looking Martin Luke Oduor-Otieno will be making many finer great contributions to the development of Kenya and inaccessible beyond.