| Organization: Group Managing Director & CEO |
| Designation: Metropol East Africa Corporation Limited |
A career banker, Sam is the Group Managing Director and Chief Executive of Metropol East Africa Limited. He has over 12 years experience in the Credit Rating and Reporting industry as well as 12 years as a practicing banker with Kenya’s leading Domestic Commercial Bank. Sam holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Nairobi and CPA Accounting certificate. Sam has been involved in many interventions in the financial services and capital markets in Kenya, and the East African Region some of which include: Credit Training; Development of credit curriculum for The Kenya Institute of Bankers (KIB) and was chief examiner in strategic Marketing and Lending Papers from 2000 to 2006 and Institute of Credit Management of Kenya (ICM-K) where he is a founder member and Chairman of the examination board from 2002 to 2004. He is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers (ACIB), UK and a Fellow of the Kenya Institute of Bankers (KIB). Sam was the lead consultant in the SME credit scoring and Credit rating Project which was funded by IFC and Pro-Invest of the European Union for the East African market between 2004 and 2006. He has attended many courses in financial management locally and abroad. Sam oversees the Groups strategic direction and leads the product and enterprise developments across the Group’s varied business and product lines. Sam has also been the lead consultant in the implementation of the SME scoring tool in three banks in Kenya and Uganda. He is currently the Treasurer for the East African Credit Bureau Association (EACBA) and was nominated to attend the World Conference on Consumer Credit Reporting and the Third Global Consumer Reporting Conference held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in October 2008.