KenGen shareholders attend the firm's AGM on December 20, 2013. Photo/Diana Ngila
By SAMUEL NJIHIA, snjihia@ke.nationmedia.com
Kenya Electricity Generating Co.,
the country's biggest power producer, has appointed Joshua Choge as the
chairman of the board, replacing Titus Mbathi who retired at the
December 20, 2013 annual general meeting.
“The board of directors of KenGen at its meeting
of Thursday January 2, 2014 appointed Joshua Kibet Choge as the chairman
of the company,” KenGen said in a statement on Friday.
He will serve for a term of three years “until he
comes up for retirement and election by rotation under the Articles of
Association of the company”.
Mr Choge, who holds a Bachelor of Science degree
in Mathematics and Statistics, is a trained accountant from Strathmore
College and has also trained at the Chartered Institute of Purchasing
and Supply UK on procurement management.
“Mr Choge is an executive with over 15 years’
experience in the public sector in various positions including
purchasing manager and deputy chief auditor at East African Portland
Cement,” the company said.
He has served as a director at the Agriculture
Finance Corporation where he is the immediate former deputy chairman of
the board and chairman of the finance and business committee of the
board.
The state-controlled company has also appointed
National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich, Energy and Petroleum
Principal Secretary Joseph Njoroge, Ziporah Ndegwa and Millicent Omanga
to fill vacancies on the board.
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