Education
Makatiani was educated at Alliance High School and thereafter Maseno School.
Global Leader Chief Executive Officer of Fanisi Capital Limited
Makatiani was educated at Alliance High School and thereafter Maseno School.
Makatiani has been featured in The Economist, Fortune (magazine), Cable News Network, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai, British Broadcasting Corporation, Financial Times (London) and has been voted several times by his peers as the most respected Chief Executive Officer in East Africa. He was named a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum. He received a Bachelors degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), a Minor in Economics with a thesis done at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management.
He currently sits on the boards of Kenya Airways and Ogilvy & Mather (East Africa).
Makatiani has in the past been adviser to the United Nations Secretary General (Kofi Annan on Information and communications technology ) and been on the board of Barclays Bank, Kenya, and on the advisory board of International Chamber of Commerce (Interstate Commerce Commission) East-Magazine, Paris, France. As well as been a former executive director of African Lakes Corporation Public Limited Company – London Stock Exchange listed.
Before Fanisi, Makatiani was the Chief Executive Officer of African Management Services Company (AMSCO) a product of International Finance Corporation (International Finance Corporation) — the World Bank"s private-sector arm—the United Nations Development Programme (United Nations Development Programme), and the African Development Bank. Before AMSCO he co-founded of Africa Online, the largest Internet Service Provider across Africa with operations in 10 countries spanning the whole continent.
He is also the chairman of the board of directors for Jambojet, a low cost carrier fully owned by Kenya Airways.
Since 2005, Makatiani has been an adviser to the President of the Republic of Kenya, as a member of the National Economic and Social Council (NESC).