Nickay Wangunyu
Executive Director – Strategy & Operations
Nickay Wangunyu joined SIB in 2005 as an operations officer. He held an enhanced role that covered client service and administration. He rose through the ranks to hold the position of Operations and IT Manager for 8 years. He was instrumental in transaction management where he headed the management of various IPOs and rights issues in processing, collection and reconciliations.
In his career of 14 years, Nickay has acquired experience and expertise in trading, investor relations, research, and in asset management. In 2014, he served in the strategic management committee which was responsible for implementing an organization restructure, after which in his position as Principal- Product and Business Development, he spearheaded in developing a number of initial retail products. Afterwards, he joined asset management where he was part of the investment committee in making decision for investments.
Currently, in his role as the Executive Director – Strategy and Business Development, he spearheaded the formation of the Online Forex Trading and CFDs trading division (Global Markets), the first CMA licensed Online Forex Trading Money Manager in Kenya and the East Africa Region.
Nickay is a member of Institute of Certified Investment Financial Analysts (ICIFA). He also holds a Masters of Business Administration from University of Sunderland (UK) and a Bachelors of Computer Science degree from ANU.