Joshua Nyamweya Oigara (born 1975) is Kenyan businessman, accountant and corporate executive and the current Chief Executive Officer Stanbic Bank Kenya and South Sudan starting November 2022. He is the immediate former
Group chief executive officer
A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especially ...
of the
Kenya Commercial Bank Group
KCB Group Limited, also known as the KCB Group, is a financial services holding company based in the African Great Lakes region. The Group's headquarters are in Nairobi, Kenya, with its subsidiaries being KCB Bank Kenya Limited, KCB Bank Burundi Li ...
. He served in that position from 1 January 2013.
until 25 May 2022.
Before that, he was the chief financial officer and Member of the board of directors of both
KCB Group
KCB Group Limited, also known as the KCB Group, is a financial services holding company based in the African Great Lakes region. The Group's headquarters are in Nairobi, Kenya, with its subsidiaries being KCB Bank Kenya Limited, KCB Bank Burundi Li ...
and
KCB Bank Kenya, between January 2012 and January 2013. At age 37, his appointment in November 2012 to replace the outgoing CEO
Martin Oduor-Otieno made him the youngest CEO of a publicly traded bank at the
Nairobi Securities Exchange.
Background and education
Joshua Oigara was born in
Kisii, in southwestern Kenya in 1975. His parents, William and Diana Oigara, were both schoolteachers and tea farmers at the Gesima Settlement Scheme in Borabu, where he was raised.
After high school, he was admitted to the
University of Nairobi
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for a
Bachelor of Commerce degree, majoring in Accounting. He also pursued his accounting certification at
Strathmore University School of Accountancy, graduating from both in 1997.
Later, he obtained a
Master of Business Administration
A Master of Business Administration (MBA; also Master's in Business Administration) is a postgraduate degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration such as accounti ...
degree from
Edith Cowan University, in
Perth, Australia
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. In addition, he has attended postgraduate management courses in a