Donald Wangunyu
Executive Director
Donald joined the team at SIB in 2008 to Head the Operations department with an emphasis on risk management, compliance, and operational excellence. Five years later, his role was expanded to include business development with a specific focus on the brokerage side of the business.
In 2019, in response to the needs of our customers, he was charged with the responsibility of setting up FourFront Management, a division of Standard Investment Bank. As Chief Executive Officer, he leads a team that is building solutions to increase the ease and efficiency in which the general public understands, accesses and consumes investment banking services.
Donald is a Board member of the Kenya Association Stockbrokers and Investment Banks (KASIB). He has chaired several Board Committee and most critical of which was the Broker Back Office System (BBO) Functionality Delivery Committee which created a common platform for Investment Banks to interface with the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) and the Central Depository & Settlement Corporation (CDSC). The committee on the removal of Capital Gains Tax (2017) and the committee on the long-term growth of KASIB have also benefitted from his leadership.
He is also a member of the Capital Markets Master Plan Working Group IV. The CMMP WG:IV was constituted by the Capital Markets Authority with the mandate of stimulating the growth of foreign investment into Kenya. In addition, he is a member of the Advisory Board of the East Africa Forum for Alternative Investments.
Donald started his career in the operations department of Investors Bank and Trust, USA. He later joined Pegasystems (USA) as a principal software engineer, leading the commercial bank cheque-processing systems team.
Donald holds a Computer Science degree from Suffolk University, USA.