The Finest. Top 40 under 40 Kenyan Men honored @ Gala Dinner

Celebrating a milestone is an amazing feeling. It even gets better when someone else notices your achievements and makes the effort to acknowledge them especially when done publicly. Not only does it bring visibility and extend praise to the individual but it also serves as an inspiration to many others out there on the value of hard work.

On Tuesday 30th November 2021, Business Daily a publication of the Nation Media Group, held a gala dinner at The Park Inn by Radisson Nairobi Westlands for Top 40 under 40 Men, in honor of outstanding individuals who have shown resilience amid an economic downtown and pandemic; men who have been constantly retooling to stay on top of the ‘game’; and men whose hard work is the wind behind the sails pushing our economic recovery.

This is an annual selection of the most influential and progressive personalities who have left a mark in corporate Kenya and in business. It is a celebration of their mastery, dedication, and discipline in their various fields of profession. They are the innovators, disruptors and defiers of 2021 in different fields such as entrepreneurs, artistes, corporate high-fliers, architects, law, finance and medical professionals, academics and researchers, techies, sportswomen, philanthropists and more.

Some of the men awarded during the dinner, just to mention but a few:

Dr Stanley Aruyaru Mwenda, 39 (When he was to join Moi University to study medicine, his father could not afford his fees and therefore decided to enroll him in a mechanical course at a polytechnic, which was cheaper. Meanwhile his teachers protested the move and instead, fundraised for his undergraduate course. Now he wears many hats –a leader, a surgeon, a writer, and a devoted family man.)

Ferdinand Omanyala Omurwa, 25 (Kenyan sprinter Omanyala has been one of the most outstanding athletes this year. He raced into history books, and at no less than on the biggest stage—the Olympics Games- becoming the fastest man in Africa, the second-fastest over 100 metres in the world this season, and the eighth all-time fastest in the world. Only Usain Bolt, Tyson Gay, Yohan Blake, Asafa Powel, Justin Gatlin, Christian Coleman, and Trayvon Bromell come ahead of him in the list of all-time fastest athletes.)

Saveer Singh Vohra, 26 (He was involved in a tragic road accident that claimed members of his family, who included his grandfather the chairman of Sarova Hotels, his wife, daughter and daughter-in-law. At 23, he had to take over the Sarova portfolio and run several companies within his family business stable ranging from hospitality, manufacturing, tours and travel, importation and distributorship, industrial warehousing, automotive engineering, and film studios.)

Brian Job Onyino, 34 (Brian, an actuarial scientist, is helping facilitate Africa’s continental free trade. Trade is seen as a key pillar for the development of any country and African leaders are in the race to boost seamless trade across borders despite persistent barriers. Among African professionals helping remove the barriers is Brian.)

According to Diana Mwango, BDLife Editor and Project Editor, for more than 13 years, Business Daily has been singling out outstanding individuals who have dared to turn their dreams in million-shilling enterprises, who have made groundbreaking medical discoveries, who have escaped poverty to head multinationals, to those who became the ‘firsts’ in different fields. This year, there were over 1,500 men who were proposed ….“all with unique and beautiful stories no less important than the 40 who made it to the final list.”

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