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Childhood curiosity forced me to venture into telecom and tech

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Thomas Muraya Macharia, the founder of Masto Telecom Technology. [Yvonne Chepkwony, Standard]

Since childhood, Thomas Macharia has been fascinated and mesmerised by how gadgets such as televisions and radios operate.

Thomas Macharia, the director of Masto Telecom Technology in Nakuru County, recalls being disciplined by his parents numerous times for dismantling radios and televisions. However, this did not deter him from passionately exploring and discovering what lay inside these gadgets.

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