Carol Musyoka has several years of financial leadership experience. She has extensive deal origination, negotiation, structuring and execution experience, having been involved in several landmark corporate finance transactions in Kenya. Her executive management and board experience includes her role as the Corporate Director, Barclays Bank of Kenya, as well as the Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer of K- Rep Bank, Kenya's first micro finance institution.
Carol has had considerable credit risk and corporate banking experience at both Barclays and Citibank. She has previously served on, and retired from the Boards of at least 16 private, public and Not for Profit organizations including BOC Gases, British American Tobacco Ltd, Competition Authority of Kenya where she chaired the Board Human Resources Committee, ICDC, Institute of Economic Affairs, the national carrier Kenya Airways, Opportunity Kenya, SOS Children’s Villages and the African Legal Support Facility of the African Development Bank.
Carol previously chaired two state-owned agencies namely the Business Registration Services and the Kenya Deposit Insurance Corporation, as well as the Board Numeration and Remuneration Committee and Board
Investment Committees of the NSE Listed Diageo subsidiary East Africa Breweries Ltd, where she was an independent non executive director. She also chaired the EABL Foundation and sat on the EABL subsidiaries,
Kenya Breweries Ltd and UDV Ltd.
Carol currently provides bespoke training solutions to multinational and locally owned companies in the region on Leadership and Corporate Governance. She is also a co-facilitator on Fast Forward, a local leadership development program that provides “Leadership Unusual” insights to Chief Executive Officers and C-Suite Management of leading Kenyan companies (www.sunwords.com). For the last eleven years, Carol has also been the Academic Director for the corporate governance programs at Strathmore University Business School.
On an international level, Carol is part of the Durham, North Carolina-based Duke Corporate Education (www.dukece.com) faculty and is involved in providing leadership deliveries for some of their global clients. Her skills in breaking down complex financial events and contextualizing the same to local situations have been well received and are a constant feature of her weekly Monday column The Nitpicker, in Kenya’s leading business newspaper, the Business Daily.
Carol is a holder of a Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Nairobi and a Master of Law degree from Cornell University, USA. Carol, a recipient of the 2010 Eisenhower Fellowship for International Leadership, lives in Nairobi, Kenya.