James Mwangi CBS is a Kenyan accountant, career banker, businessman, and entrepreneur.
He is the current Group Managing Director and Group Chief Executive Officer of Equity..
James Mwangi CBS is a Kenyan accountant, career banker, businessman, and entrepreneur.
He is the current Group Managing Director and Group Chief Executive Officer of Equity Group Holdings Plc, the banking conglomerate with one of the largest customer bases on the African continent, over 14 million as of December 2019.
As the CEO of Equity Group Holdings Plc, Mwangi is credited with democratizing financial access.
Mwangi was included among The Financial Times' 2009 list of the top 50 thought leaders of emerging markets and the top 20 most influential people in Africa.
He was the founding chairman of Kenya Vision 2030 Delivery Board from 2007-2019, charged with ensuring Kenya became a middle-income country with high living standards by 2030.
In 2020, Equity Bank was granted approval to merge two subsidiaries (Equity Bank Congo (EBC) and Banque Commercial du Congo (BCDC)) in the Democratic Republic of Congo(DRC).
The two subsidiaries formed a new bank by the name Equity Banque Commercial du Congo (Equity BCDC) which made it the second largest bank in DRC.
He also serves as a guest lecturer at Stanford University, Columbia University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard University, IESE Business School, and Lagos Business School.