GC Influencers
Most Influential GCs - Africa-wide
Fred Waithaka rejoined Safaricom in 2017 as Head of Legal and Secretarial Services, having previously spent five years at Seacom Ltd as Regional Counsel and then Head of Legal.
Before this he spent an initial six years between 2006 and 2012 at Safaricom as Principal In-house Counsel. In addition to his time at some of Kenya’s largest corporates, he worked in private practice for a number of years at one of the country’s most highly regarded law firms, Kaplan & Stratton Attorneys.
Industry sources widely endorse him as an important legal figure in Africa, stating: “He is an impressive guy with an important role in the company.”