Mary M'MukindiaMBS is a Kenyan businessperson, petrochemical expert and a Leadership Coach.
Life
Mary Kimotho M'Mukindia was born in July 1957. She graduated from the University of Nairobi. She entered the oil and gas industry. She was awarded the Moran of the Burning Spear in 2007. M'Mukindia, a former ExonMobil executive working in Kenya and United Kingdom, and a founder member and first General Manager of the Petroleum Institute of East Africa as well as a former CEO of Kenya's National Oil Corporation, is an Executive Leadership Coach, Business Consultant and a Leadership Trainer. She also served with UNEP working for the Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles from 2007 to 2012. She was a confidante of the businessman and politician Njenga Karume. Before he died from cancer in 2013 he had formed the Njenga Karume Foundation which was designed to manage his inheritance. A board of trustees was chosen to manage these interests which thereafter appointed M'Mukinda to the Jacaranda Holdings board in October 2012. In 2013 Martha Karua, a former justice minister, ran unsuccessfully to be President of Kenya and M'Mukindia was a campaign adviser and fundraiser on her campaign. In December 2015 Karua admitted to receiving a multimillion-pound "donation" to her presidential campaign costs from British American Tobacco. Karua said that she thought that the contribution by Paul Hopkins, a BAT employee, was a personal donation. The money was paid according to Karua via M'Mukindia. It was alleged that the money was given in return for details of the technology that Kenya was going to use to identify illegal tobacco smuggling. M'Mukindia, in civil case no. 5 of 2016, sued the Nation Media Group for defamation and in judgement dated November 29, 2017, was awarded general, aggravated and exemplary damages against the defendants as the court found the publication was false and actuated by malice on the part of the defendants. M'Mukindia continued to serve as a board member of the Kenya Revenue Authority until the expiry of her term in August 2016.
