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Equity appoints director for its subsidiaries
Ms Mary Wamae with the bank’s CEO, Mr James Mwangi. FILE PHOTO | NMG
What you need to know:
- Mary Wangari Wamae becomes the senior-most woman executive at the bank and next in hierarchy to Group Chief Executive Officer James Mwangi.
- She will be charged with overseeing the management of the group’s banking subsidiaries in DRC Congo, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania and South Sudan.
- Ms Wamae, an Advocate of the High Court, joined the lender when it was a building society in 2004 as head of legal services before her promotion to company secretary in 2005.
Equity Group has tapped long-serving manager Mary Wangari Wamae as its new group executive director overseeing the business' subsidiaries. Ms Wamae, who has been Equity’s Company Secretary and Director for Strategy and Legal Services, becomes the senior-most woman executive at the bank and next in hierarchy to Group Chief Executive Officer James Mwangi.
Equity is Kenya’s largest bank by customer accounts. Ms Wamae has worked at the lender for 14 years.
