Dr. Samuel Gachwe Kariuki

Group Director - Talent Management @ Equity Bank Limited

About

Over 20 Years experience across East, West, South and North Africa. Exec level HR experience gained whilst working in Financial Services and Multilateral Development Bank with operations in 36 African countries. Pan-African HR experience having lived and worked in 7 African countries (Nigeria, South Africa, Tunisia, Kenya, Cote d’Ivoire, Tanzania and Uganda), 6 of which are in sub Saharan Africa. Sectors: International Financial Institutions / Multilateral Development Banks, ICT, Banking, Financial Services, Energy and Education. Passionate about Talent & Performance Management, Reward, Change Management (including company re-organization & restructures), HR Business Partnering, Health and Safety, Admin Management (Including facilities and fleet management). Finance background, a reputable Doctorate degree from the University of Liverpool, MBA & Harvard Leadership training, coupled with experience in other business functions like Finance, have provided a broad business and commercial understanding required to be effective at Executive roles in International HR Management.

Country

Kenya

City

Nairobi County

Industry

Philanthropy

Skill

Job Evaluation, HRIS, HR Policies, Employee Relations, Performance Management, Human Resources, Strategy, Employee Benefits, Deferred Compensation, Change Management, Organizational Development, Recruiting, Training, Policy, Personnel Management, Management, Payroll Services, Leadership, Payroll, Employee Engagement

Experience

Group Director - Talent Management

Equity Bank Limited

2025-1 - Present · 1 yr 9 mos

Kenya

Equity Bank is the largest bank in the region by market capitalization and has about 14K staff in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan.

Director, People & Culture Business Partner for Programs

Mastercard Foundation

2022-9 - 2025-1 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Nairobi, Kenya

The Mastercard Foundation is an international non-governmental organization established by Mastercard in 2006. It is the wealthiest charitable foundation in Canada, and one of the wealthiest in the world, with 2024 assets of $47 billion.

Human Resources Director - Africa

The Rockefeller Foundation

2021-3 - 2022-9 · 1 yr 7 mos

Nairobi, Kenya

Rockefeller Foundation is one of the largest foundations globally. The Foundation advances new frontiers of science, data, policy, and innovation to solve global challenges related to health, food, power, and economic mobility.

Group Chief People Officer

Cellulant

2019-2 - 2020-7 · 1 yr 6 mos

Lagos / Abuja, Nigeria

Cellulant is Africa's no.1 company in the payments & transfers category with presence in 18 African countries

Chief Human Resources Officer

M-KOPA

2016-6 - 2019-2 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Kenya, Uganda, United Kingdom, China, Tanzania

M-KOPA Solar is the global leader of pay-as-you-go energy for off-grid customers. M-KOPA has over 1000 staff across Africa, Europe and Asia. - EXCOM member, in charge of HR and Administration for M-KOPA Group (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, UK and China). - Leading a team of 34 staff. Responsible for formulating and implementing M-KOPA HR and Administration strategy. This includes strategies on talent acquisition, talent capability, compensation & benefits, performance management, employee engagement, organization design & effectiveness, health & safety, facilities and fleet management.

Division Manager - Human Resources

African Development Bank Group

2013-4 - 2016-6 · 3 yrs 3 mos

In Cote D'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) for 21 months and Tunisia for 18 months

- In charge of HR Operations and Compensation in 36 African Countries where AFDB has offices. - Lead / Contribute to the development and changes to HR strategy, HR policies, procedures and practices to support execution of AfDB People Strategy - Leading a team of 26 staff across Africa with overall responsibility on HR Operations including Reward & Recognition, Benefits, HR Shared Services and Performance Management and HR Business Partnering. Acting Human Resources Director from February 2016 to May 2016

Head of Department - Human Resource Operations and Reward Management

Safaricom PLC

2009-1 - 2013-4 · 4 yrs 4 mos

Nairobi, Kenya

- Facilitating the formulation and implementation of Human Resource strategies, policies, processes and procedures to support execution of Safaricom People Strategy. - Development and execution of the Reward Strategy

Compensation and Benefits Manager - East and South Africa

Citi

2003-8 - 2008-12 · 5 yrs 5 mos

Worked & lived in Johannesburg-South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia

Leading the Sub-Saharan Africa compensation and benefit / reward function with responsibility for remuneration strategy and governance, pay differentiation, incentivisation and recognition, benefit selection and design, reward communication and training as well as payroll and income tax management.