Background
Gachora was born in Gatamaiyu Village in Kenya"s Central Province to subsistence farmers in 1968, the eighth born in a family of thirteen children.
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John Gachora
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He attended Alliance High School.
Career
He is the Group Managing Director and Group Chief Executive Officer of National Informatics Centre Bank Group, a banking conglomerate, with subsidiaries in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. While there, he traveled to the United States as a high school exchange visitor to Brooks School in Andover, Massachusetts. While there, he applied to and was accepted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
He earned both the Bachelor of Science and the Master of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering.
Later, in 2002, he received the Executive Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School of Business. After his master"s degree at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he found employment on Wall Street with Cr Suisse.
Later, he worked at Bank of America"s corporate headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina, rising to the rank of Managing Director - Group Head, Investment Banking. In January 2009, he joined Absa Capital in Johannesburg, South Africa, rising to the rank of Chief Executive Officer of Absa Africa at Absa Group Limited (now Barclays Africa Group), in November 2010.
In November 2013, he was appointed Group Managing Director and Group Chief Executive Officer of National Informatics Centre Bank Group. a position he still occupies as of December 2014.
Gachora is a married father of three children.
