Joyce Ann Wainaina, is the Managing Partner of Chui Ventures a Pan-African Seed fund with a gender-inclusive focus, backing local founders building mass-market solutions. She was previously a managing director of Citibank where she was Head of Citi's Global Network Banking across Sub Sahara Africa. She is a Kenyan corporate executive, who previously served as the chief executive officer, of

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Kenya and East Africa, from 2014 - 2019

Background and education

She was born in Kenya in December 1967, and attended local primary and secondary schools. She was awarded a Bachelor of Science in finance by

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, in

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, United States. She also holds a Master of Science in

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, from the

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, at the

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Career

Joyce-Ann Wainaina is the Founder and Managing Partner of Chui Ventures a Pan-African Seed fund with a gender-inclusive focus, backing local founders building mass-market solutions. She was previously a managing director of Citibank, Sub Sahara Africa, covering 11 countries in South, East, West and Central Africa. She has an extensive career with Citi starting in 1990 and has held senior positions across Africa covering country management, corporate banking, product management, operations and controls. Joyce-Ann was previously the CEO for Citi East Africa for 5 years. Prior to that she was the managing director and Chief Country Officer (CCO) of Citibank Zambia, from 2011 to 2014. Joyce-Ann is passionate enabling entrepreneurs in Africa and has been an active investor with a track record across Africa. She also supports talent development in Africa; she co-designed the Sapphire Leadership Programme a mentoring program for senior talent development in Citi across Emerging Markets in EMEA. She also partnered with the Kenya Bankers Association and the Central Bank of Kenya to establish a mentorship program for Women Leaders in the Banking industry in Kenya. She is a founding Trustee of the JB Wanjui Education Trust focused on providing grants to girls in university in Kenya. .

Family

Ms Joyce Ann Wainaina is a married mother of three children.

Other responsibilities

As of March 2019, Joyce Ann Wainaina was one of the five women who served as CEOs of Kenyan commercial banks. The other four are (a)

Nasim Devji Nasim Mohamed Devji, is a Kenyan businesswoman, accountant and corporate executive, who serves as the managing director and chief executive officer of Diamond Trust Bank Group, a commercial banking conglomerate, with headquarters in Nairobi an ...

, at Diamond Trust Bank (b)

Betty Korir Betty Maritim Korir (née Betty Maritim), (born c. 1971), is a Kenyan lawyer and corporate executive, who serves as the managing director and chief executive officer of Credit Bank, a commercial bank in Kenya, the largest economy in the East ...

at Credit Bank (c) Anne Karanja, at Kenya Post Office Savings Bank and (d)

Rebecca Mbithi Rebecca Mbithi, is a lawyer, accountant and corporate executive in Kenya Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya, is a country located in East Africa. With an estimated population of more than 52.4 million as of mid-2024, Kenya is the ...

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