Notes to the Financial Statements (cont'd) - Kenya Airways

Kenya Airways Annual Report & Accounts25The Management Team (Biographies)Mr. Yves Guibert ; Director, Ground Services (47)Mr Guibert began his aviation career in Tahiti when he joined a subsidiary of Union TransportsAeriens (UTA) in 1986 as a Load Controller. He left French Polynesia three years laterhaving qualified as a Dispatch and Airport Duty Controller and joined UTA in Paris in theposition of Relief Station Manager. For close to two years, he relieved station managementand worked in various countries around the UTA network worldwide. In 1991 whenAir France absorbed UTA, he was expatriated to South Africa to join the station management. Hejoined Virgin Atlantic as Station Manager overseeing the running of the Johannesburg and theopening of the Cape Town Stations in 1998. In 2001 he moved to Nigeria and opened the Lagos stationfollowed by Port Harcourt. Upon the creation of Virgin Nigeria in 2005, he was detached to thenew entity and undertook the task of building Ground Services from scratch before becomingDirector Customer Service. At the time he left Virgin Nigeria to join Kenya Airways in April, 2009,he was managing its entire Ground Services, Training and In-Flight services operations.Kevin Kinyanjui ; Information Systems Director (43)Mr. Kinyanjui has over 18 years experience in the Information Technology field. This includes 6years at a management consulting firm Price Waterhouse, 6 years at Bamburi Cement Ltd anda total of 4 years in the banking sector, most recently at Housing Finance Company of KenyaLimited. He has attended many technical IT and management courses both locally and abroad. Asan IT management consultant he carried out numerous management consultancy assignmentsin the finance, hospitality, manufacturing and service industries in both private and public sectororganisations. These organisations were spread out beyond Kenya and in other African countriesincluding Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi and Ethiopia. At Bamburi Cement where he was the head ofIT, initially for the cement company alone, and thereafter for all group companies in Kenya andUganda he was instrumental in strategy formulation, shifting the group to an end user computingenvironment, integrating ERP systems and putting in place a complete IT organisation. Mr.Kinyanjui was the first IT Director at Housing Finance Company of Kenya Limited where heoversaw similar planning and implementation activities for banking business systems. Thisincluded the evaluation and selection of a completely new banking system platform. In 2001 theComputer Society of Kenya awarded him the Chairman’s Achievement Award in recognition ofhis achievements in the IT field.Kenya as Manpower Planning and Development Officer and thereafter served under variouscapacities. These included HR Change Programme Manager between August 1999 and September2000 and Head of Human Resources Barclays Southern Africa between May 2002 and December2002 where he was responsible for the effective running of the HR function in Barclays Bank ofBotswana, Mauritius, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Between January 2003 and December 2003, heworked as the HR Business Partner, Barclays Bank Africa in the London office, where he providedHR Consultancy services to Barclays Africa Finance and Service Delivery Directors respectivelyand their senior management teams in support of business strategy cutting across the 11 Africanbusinesses. From January 2004 to January 2006, Mr. Kasimu served as Regional HR BusinessPartner, Barclays Bank, East Africa. He received the COYA Manager of the Year award in 2008.He joined Kenya Airways on January 10th, 2006.Mohan Chandra; Commercial Director (59)Mohan Chandra joined Kenya Airways on 1st August 2009. Prior to joining Kenya Airways, Mohanwas Aviation Advisor and Chief Operating Officer for Emirates Post Group. He commenced hisairline career with DNATA, then a brief stint with Air India and onward to KLM for 27 years asRegional Manager - United Arab Emirates, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Yemen and Oman. Hehas also worked in Senior Commercial Management positions with Qantas and Emirates. Besidesvarious IATA and Management courses attended, Mohan holds a Diploma from the AmericanManagement Association (AMA), of which he is a member. He also holds an Aviation AirlineTransport Diploma from the New Zealand Civil Aviation Authority and a New Zealand CommercialPilot License for single and twin engine aircraft. Mohan has received accolades and recognitionfor outstanding performance throughout his airline career. Most notable were the WorldwideEmirates Aviation Sales Award (2005/2006), Certificate of Appreciation from The President ofCivil Aviation and Chairman of Emirates Airline, H. H. Sheikh Ahmed Bin Saeed Al Maktoum, fordedicated service to Dubai International Airport (1999) and TQP KLM Award for turning extraseats into extraordinary Sales (1991/1992).Paul Matata Kasimu ; Human Resources Director (46)Mr. Kasimu holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics and Sociology from the University ofNairobi, a Masters degree in Business Administration and a Post graduate Diploma in GeneralManagement from Cambridge University. He has over 17 years Human Resource experienceacross Africa and the UK, initially with the Office of the President and then the Barclays BankGroup. In January 1989, he joined the Directorate of Personnel Management, Office of thePresident and worked as a Management Analyst. In August 1992, he joined Barclays Bank of