Bonnie Okumu has been the Group General Counsel since January 2021. Prior to this, she was the Director, Legal Services having been appointed as such in July 2018 following a promotion from the role of Head, Legal Services which she held since January 2014 when she joined KCB.
Before joining KCB, she was the Chief Legal and Regulatory Affairs Officer & Company Secretary at Telkom Kenya Limited. Prior to this she was the General Counsel & Company Secretary at Unilever Kenya Limited where she oversaw the legal and company secretarial functions for nine operating companies in seven countries in East and Southern Africa. Until she joined Unilever, she was the Regional Legal Manager for Nestle where she set up the legal department and led a team of lawyers in providing legal and tax advisory services to 14 operating entities in 20 countries in the Equatorial African Region.
Earlier in her career, she was an associate at Dentons, Hamilton Harrison & Mathews and an audit assistant at Deloitte & Touché. She holds an LL.B from the University of Nairobi, is an advocate of the High Court of Kenya as well as a Certified Secretary (CS). She also holds a senior executive programme for Africa (SEPA) certificate from the Harvard Business School.