Kenya Airways

Bram Steller, a Dutch national, joined Kenya Airways in August 2008 as Chief Operating Officer, a newly established job. He holds a Bachelors of Electronic Engineering Degree and MBA Graduate Degree. He has held various Commercial and Operational managerial jobs during his career with KLM 1975 till 1999 and was posted in various overseas positions: Lagos, Nigeria; Cairo, Egypt; Stockholm, Sweden; Minneapolis, United States of America and Dubai, UAE. After his KLM career he joined Kenya Airways 2000 2001 as Commercial Director, thereafter he was with Jet Airways as Executive Vice President Commercial 2002 2003 and Managing Director with Trans Maldivian Airways 2003 2008 before returning to Kenya Airways to look after the Operations with a focus to improve Reliability, Punctuality and Performance as Africa's prime hub carrier.

Dr Ikiara is the Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Transport and Communication. He holds an MA and BA degrees in Economics from the University of Nairobi and has lectured Economics at that university since 1977. He has published extensively on the Kenyan economy and served as consultant to many organizations both local and international. He is currently a member of the Board's Staff and Remuneration Committee.

Mr Essenberg joined KLM in 1970 after completing his studies in Economics at the University of Rotterdam. His career with KLM started with various ICT functions during the 70s. Between 1980 and 1990 he fulfilled different positions in KLM's Commercial organisation until he ultimately took on the responsibility of KLM's Revenue Management.

Mr. Veenstra, aged 40 years, is a Chartered Accountant. After completing his studies in Business Economics at the University of Groningen in 1991 he worked with KPMG as an auditor. He joined KLM in 1996. He has served in various financial positions for KLM in the Netherlands. During the last four years, he was Vice President Finance and Control for the Engineering and Maintenance division of KLM. He is currently also a board member for KLM UK Engineering Limited as well as EPCOR BV. Currently he is the Holding manager for KLM and responsible for the monitoring of KLM's corporate holdings. He is a member of the Board's Audit and Risk Management Committee.

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With regard to his professional experience, Mr Mbugua has since 2003 been the Chief Finance Officer of AngloGold Ashanti's Africa Open Pit Mine operations based in South Africa. Between 2000 to 2003, Alex was the Chief Executive Officer of Combined Systems Group, Africa Division, a wholly owned subsidiary of PricewaterhouseCoopers, South Africa. Prior to going down to South Africa, Alex was the Finance and Administration Director of Bain Hogg Insurance Brokers, Kenya between 1997 and 1999; Chief Financial Officer, Express Kenya (1992 1997); Financial Consultant, International Air Transport Association (1990 -1991) and Audit Consultant, KPMG, Kenya (1985 1989).

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