Full List Of BD’s Top 40 Under 40 Women 2018

Nation Media Group business paper has released 2018 list of top 40 women who are aged below 40 years old.

The precious award which was launched in 2007, was also celebrating it’s tenth anniversary together with the business paper Business Daily which was also launched in the same year.

The award recognizes awesome women across Kenya who have show greatness in the field of corporate leadership, professional service to enterprise, sports, and the arts.

This year’s list which was picked from hundreds of nominations, did not only focus on being famous parameters, rather on accounts of excellence.

The 40 award winners majorly are from the areas of entrepreneurs, corporate high-fliers, law, finance and medical professionals, academics and researchers, techies, sportswomen, and philanthropists.

The list also features a unique measure by BD edirots before declaring the winners, they searched for ingenuity, freshness, performance and durability in their fields of excellence.

Here is the full list of women who made it to Business Daily‘s 2015 ranks of Top 40 Under 40, arranged in descending order of age:

1. Sapna Chandaria, 39, Commercial Director at Mondeas Ltd
2. Muthoni Kanyana, 38, Head of Marketing, Imperial Bank
3. Elizabeth Gathai, 38, Director Credit at Equity Bank
4. Caroline Mugo, 38, Head of Finance, Bunge East Africa
5. Jane Okoth, 38, founder, Rapunzel Hair Affair salon
6. Joyce Ng’ang’a, 37, Partner, Coulsom Harney
7. Katherine Mung’au, 36, director, Beglin Woods Architects
8. Amelia Omollo, 36, Project manager 777 and 767 aircraft, Kenya Airways
9. Evelyn Watta, 35, interim Sec-General, International Sports Press Association
10. Diana Situma, 35, Partner Walker Kontos Advocates
11. Priya Budhabhatti, 35, Co-Founder/Human Resource Director, Craft Silicon Ltd
12. Susan Kabue-Gitahi, 35, Owner of Image 360 Designs
13. Catherine Karita, 34, Head of NIC Securities
14. Rachel Muthoga, 34, Executive Director, Moving the Goalposts Kilifi
15. Dr Shikoh Gitau-Nyaga, 34, Techpreneur, African Development Bank
16. Monica Kambo, 34, Managing Director, MEC Africa
17. Waithera Ng’ang’a, 34, CEO of Marketing Society of Kenya
18. Dr Lillian Osamong, 34, Chairman, Kenya Medical Research Institute
19. Sapna Shah, 34, Investment director, Novastar Ventures
20. Dr Kizzie Shako, 33, Senior Forensic Medical Officer, Kenya Police & University of Nairobi
21. Nelly Gatonye, 33, founder, Pearl of Hope
22. Catherine Gitonga, 33, CEO at Scars to Scars Foundation
23. Rose Ntong’ondu, 33, CEO/Founder of Make-up by Rose
24. Rose Kinuthia, 33, Director Product Dev & Strategy (Africa Subs), TransUnion
25. Diana Okello, 32, founder, My Dress, My Choice
26. Charlene Jadeya, 32, Group Risk Manager, Centum
27. Cecilia Mwangi, 31, cofounder Ahadi Kenya Trust
28. Janet Mbugua-Ndichu, 31, Senior TV Anchor, Citizen TV
29. Rachna Patel, 31, Solar Kiosk
30. Sitawa Wafula, 30, Founding Executive Director of My Mind, My Funk
31. Judith Mwangi (Avril), 29, Musician
32. Linda Kamau, 29, Senior software developer, Ushahidi and Akirachix
33. Hilda Moraa, 26, Country Head, Enterprise Liquidity Solutions AFB
34. Helen Njoroge, 26, founder, Tenderskenya.com
35. Elizabeth Marami, 26, Marine Pilot, Kenya Ports Authority
36. Peggy Mativo, 26, founder of PACE Kenya
37. Jacqueline Kamau, 24, Aerospace Project Engineer, Denis Ferranti Meters Ltd
38. Patricia Andago, 23, founder of pendotalk.co.ke
39. Wangechi Mwangi, 22, CEO of Valuraha Group
40. June Syowia, 20, social entrepreneur, Mustard Seed Organisation

Source- Business Daily