Equity’s talent pool has kept lender growing

Equity Bank group managing director & CEO Dr. James Mwangi during the banks third quater financial results on 3rd November 2016. PHOTO:WILBERFORCE OKWIRI

For many, the story of the rise of Equity Bank from insolvency to control a quarter of the country’s deposits is synonymous with James Mwangi, the towering figure that has dominated the lender’s history.

But how one of the seven children brought up by a widow and subsistence farmer rose through the ranks and learned how to identify talent and retain it has been in the background.