Many tumbles, but with experience comes wisdom

Vimal Shah during an interview at his office in Gigiri, Nairobi. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

At 60, Vimal Shah, the chairman of Bidco Africa is not about to slow down or hang up his hat. A believer in the power of intuition, he shares his top life and entrepreneurship lessons, writes Peter Theuri.

If you expect Vimal Shah to be suited up on a random, slow Wednesday afternoon, spotting his usual sharp look in a collarless shirt and sitting in front of his laptop, winding up a meeting and readying for another, then you are not in for any particular shock.

He turned 60 last month but runs through meetings with the agility and aplomb of someone way younger, probably the way he did it when he was 25, when Bidco Africa Ltd, a manufacturer of fast-moving consumer goods was founded.