BCCK – Jersey Finance Nairobi Networking Reception

Faizal is a UK qualified lawyer and for many years has worked and advised, and is a trusted advisor to institutions, corporates and families across the Middle East, Africa and India. Faizal specialises in banking and finance and has advised corporates, family offices and families including on their international investment and holding structures.

Farida Abbas is the CEO of the British Chamber of Commerce in Kenya. She is appointed to provide leadership and strategic vision to the Chamber by identifying, evaluating, and developing trade and investment opportunities between Kenya and the United Kingdom. Farida comes from a background in sustainable business development and leadership development and thrives on growing SME capacity building. She is renowned as a strategic thinker and a creative problem solver who can focus on complex challenges and turn them into tangible, quantifiable strategies for businesses and individuals. She is fully aware of the significance of establishing relationships of trust and transparency to engage multiple key stakeholders for growth and expansion. Farida draws on work from her experience with the FTSE 100 companies in Kenya, including Diageo, AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline and G4S. Farida is an Accredited Executive Coach by the Academy of Executive Coaching (AoEC) UK.

Isaac Kahara is an accomplished project finance and financial risk management professional with 17+ years of experience in various leadership roles in corporate, consultancy and public sector. He is currently the Country Head - East Africa at UK Export Finance (UKEF), whose role is to increase access to UKEF financing offer, consider appropriate bankable projects and supporting UK trade relations across East Africa. Prior to joining UKEF, Isaac was a financial risks advisor at Deloitte for close to a decade, in addition to several years in various roles in finance, risk management and treasury management for large corporations.

The British Chamber of Commerce in Kenya (BCCK) gives members privileged access to a high-profile business network.  BCCK has a growing list of over 320 active members ranging from FTSE 100 companies to individual British consultants working in Kenya. We work in conjunction with the Department for Business and Trade (DBT), the Overseas Business network of the British Chambers of Commerce and regional and national bodies in Kenya.