Wandia Gichuru is the CEO and co-founder of Vivo Activewear.
Wandia Gichuru was born in Montreal, Canada to a Canadian mother and a Kenyan father. [1] She is the only girl and the second born among three other siblings. [2]
She studied at Kilimani Primary School and later joined Loreto Convent Msongari High School. [1] She then joined the University of Western Ontario where she graduated with a degree in Economics. [1] She also achieved a master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Cape Town in 1996. [3]
Before she went to study in Cape Town, she worked for Kenya Wildlife Service and Citibank. [2] After her MBA, she came back to Kenya and began as an Operations Analyst at the World Bank and later on [4] worked as an associate at JP Morgan (London), a governance adviser with the UK Department for International Development (London) and a policy adviser with the United Nations Development Programme (New York).
Wandia left employment and started a fashion company in Kenya in 2011. [2] She co-founded the company, Vivo Activewear, with Anne Marie Burugu [5] and is its CEO as of 2016. She was also an investor in the Kenya Commercial Bank Lion's Den show in seasons 1 and 2. [6]
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Wandia Gichuru is the CEO and co-founder of Vivo Activewear.
Wandia Gichuru was born in Montreal, Canada to a Canadian mother and a Kenyan father. [1] She is the only girl and the second born among three other siblings. [2]
She studied at Kilimani Primary School and later joined Loreto Convent Msongari High School. [1] She then joined the University of Western Ontario where she graduated with a degree in Economics. [1] She also achieved a master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Cape Town in 1996. [3]
Before she went to study in Cape Town, she worked for Kenya Wildlife Service and Citibank. [2] After her MBA, she came back to Kenya and began as an Operations Analyst at the World Bank and later on [4] worked as an associate at JP Morgan (London), a governance adviser with the UK Department for International Development (London) and a policy adviser with the United Nations Development Programme (New York).
Wandia left employment and started a fashion company in Kenya in 2011. [2] She co-founded the company, Vivo Activewear, with Anne Marie Burugu [5] and is its CEO as of 2016. She was also an investor in the Kenya Commercial Bank Lion's Den show in seasons 1 and 2. [6]
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