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Kris Senanu is a Kenyan businessman who currently is the Chief Enterprise Business Officer at
Safaricom Safaricom PLC is a listed Kenyan mobile network operator headquartered at Safaricom House in Nairobi, Kenya. It is the largest telecommunications provider in Kenya, and one of the most profitable companies in the East and Central Africa region. T ...
. Prior to this he was Managing Director of Telkom Digital. Kris was the youngest Telco executive to run a listed ICT company. He was instrumental in the startup of Access Kenya (now Internet Solutions) and successfully helped it to become the first listed ICT firm on the
Nairobi Securities Exchange The Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) was established in 1954 as the Nairobi Stock Exchange, based in Nairobi the capital of Kenya. It was a voluntary association of stockbrokers in the European community registered under the Societies Act in ...
. He then helped to expand the business’s footprint into East Africa and steering its acquisition by
Dimension Data Dimension Data was a company specialising in information technology services. Based in Johannesburg, South Africa, the company maintained operations on every inhabited continent. Dimension Data focused on services including IT consulting, tec ...
in 2014, before exiting as its Deputy CEO, in 2016.


Early life and education

Kris Senanu is a son of the academic Kwadzo Senanu. Kris Senanu attended the USIU-A, attaining an undergraduate degree in International Business Administration, majoring in Marketing and a graduate degree (MBA) in Strategic Management from
Warwick University The University of Warwick ( ; abbreviated as ''Warw.'' in post-nominal letters) is a public research university on the outskirts of Coventry between the West Midlands and Warwickshire, England. The university was founded in 1965 as part of a ...
's Business School.


Career

He is currently the Chief Enterprise Business Officer at Safaricom. In 2001, he assisted in co-founding the AccessKenya Group, becoming the company's Chief Operating Officer in 2005, and subsequently its Managing Director. In 2014, AccessKenya Group was acquired by Internet Solutions ( IS), with Senanu becoming its deputy CEO. In 2016 he joined Telkom Kenya as Managing Director, Enterprise Division. Kris is also the Chair of the United States International University Council. Other past and present Chairmanships he holds include: the Governing Council at the Kenya Institute of Management, the Chair of the Pan African agency BTL Africa, headquartered in Ghana, and Mdundo which is a pan African music platform. Kris is a fellow of both the Chartered Institute of Marketing and the Kenya Institute of Management.


See also

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Telkom Kenya Telkom Kenya is an integrated telecommunications provider in Kenya. It was previously a part of the Kenya Posts and Telecommunications Corporation (KPTC) which was the sole provider of both postal and telecommunication services. The company wa ...


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Senanu, Kris 1973 births Living people Chief operating officers Ghanaian businesspeople United States International University alumni Alumni of the University of Warwick