{{Short description|Kenyan businesswoman}} {{Infobox person | name = Wanjikū Mūgane | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1964}} | birth_place = Kenya | death_date = | death_place = | alma_mater = '''Georgetown University'''<br/> {{small|(Master of Laws)}}<br/>'''University of Nairobi'''<br/> {{small|(Bachelor of Laws)}}<br/>'''Kenya School of Law'''<br/>{{small|(Diploma in Legal Practice)}} | occupation = Lawyer & Business Executive | years_active = 1998–present | citizenship = Kenya | known_for = Investment banking | networth = | title = '''Managing Director'''<br/>Fedha Connect Limited }}
'''Caroline Wanjikū Mūgane''' is an attorney and investment banker in Kenya, the largest economy in the East African Community. She is the managing director of ''Fedha Connect Limited'', a company that raises capital for businesses in agribusiness, real estate, oil and gas.<ref>{{cite web|title=Kenya Airways Announces Suspension of New Delhi Flights As Cost Cutting Measures Come Into Effect| date=26 November 2014|accessdate=26 November 2014| url=https://wolfganghthome.wordpress.com/2014/11/26/kenya-airways-announces-suspension-of-new-delhi-flights-as-cost-cutting-measures-come-into-effect/|publisher=Wolfganghthome.Wordpress.com|last=Thome| first=Wolfgang}}</ref> She is a member of the board of directors of Kenya Airways, the national airline.<ref>{{cite web|title=Kenya Airways AGM Votes Banking Women Into Board|url=http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate-News/Kenya-Airways-votes-two-women-into-board/-/539550/2534672/-/12yif98z/-/index.html|date=25 November 2014|accessdate=25 November 2014|first=Charles|last=Mwaniki| newspaper=Business Daily Africa (Nairobi)}}</ref> She has previously served on the boards of Equity Bank, East African Breweries,<ref>{{cite web|first=James| url=http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Company%20Industry/-/539550/608136/-/ua6538z/-/index.html|last=Makau| date=9 June 2009|accessdate=26 November 2014|title=Investment Banker Mugane Quits EABL Board|newspaper=Business Daily Africa (Nairobi)}}</ref> and Standard Securities.
==Work history== Following her graduation from Georgetown Law School, she worked with SG Warburg in London and Johannesburg. In 1998, she and a partner founded '''First Africa Capital''', a finance advisory company based in Nairobi, with offices in Johannesburg and London. In 2006, Standard Chartered Kenya acquired 25% shareholding in First Africa, where Ms. Mūgane served as the chief executive officer. In 2009, Standard Chartered acquired 100% shareholding in First Africa, renaming the company Standard Chartered Securities (SCS). Ms. Wanjikū Mūgane served as the CEO at SCS from 2006 until Standard Chartered Bank closed the subsidiary in 2013.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate-News/StanChart-shuts-down-corporate-advisory-unit/-/539550/2049138/-/gr2fouz/-/index.html|title=StanChart Shuts Down Corporate Advisory Unit|date=27 October 2013|first=Michael| last=Omondi|accessdate=26 November 2014|newspaper=Business Daily Africa (Nairobi)}}</ref> In 2001, at the age of 37, she was appointed as a non-executive director of East African Breweries, serving in that capacity until she resigned in 2009. For a number of years prior to 2007, Ms. Wanjikū Mūgane served as a non-executive director of Equity Bank.<ref>{{cite web|date=25 November 2014| accessdate=26 November 2015|title=Kenya Airways Now Has Two Women On Its Board|url=http://www.hapakenya.com/kenya-airways-now-has-two-women-on-its-board/|first=James|last=Wamathai| publisher=HapaKenya.Com}}</ref>
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==External links== * [https://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/elections/kenya/ Kenya: Terror, Trade And Tourists]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mugane, Wanjiku}} Category:1964 births Category:Living people Category:20th-century Kenyan businesspeople Category:Georgetown University alumni Category:Kenyan women business executives Category:University of Nairobi alumni