Polycarp Igathe

Polycarp Igathe Kamau (born 21 September 1972) is a Kenyan businessman, politician and corporate executive, He acts as the Chief Commercial Officer in Equity Group Holdings. He had earlier served as the vice president in charge of sales and marketing at Vivo Energy Africa. Before that, he had served as the Chief Commercial Officer of Equity Bank Kenya between May 2018 and September 2018, when he was later promoted to the managing director position.

Igathe was elected as the second Deputy Governor of Nairobi County in the 2017 Kenyan general elections on a Jubilee Party ticket. Prior to this, he served as managing director of Vivo Energy, Kenya before resigning in May 2017 to run for office. and is a graduate of the Strathmore University's Advanced Management Program (AMP) with IESE Business School in Spain. At the University of Nairobi, Igathe was the National Chairman of AIESEC in Kenya.

Career before politics Straight out of the University of Nairobi in 1995, Igathe was employed in Australia as a finance officer at Queensland Health in Australia. He returned to Kenya a year and a half later and took up employment with Coca-Cola, where he worked until 2000. He then joined Africa Online as a sales and marketing manager. He was then hired by Kenya Breweries Limited, working as sales operations manager and then as marketing manager. He then worked as the managing director at Haco Industries for ten years, prior to joining Vivo Energy Kenya in 2003. Other responsibilities included director and trustee of the Kenya Private Sector Alliance from 2014 until 2016 and chairman and member of the Board of Management of Bishop Gatimu Ngandu Girls High School since 2010. On 19 April 2022, Igathe announced his candidature to run for the Nairobi gubernatorial seat on Jubilee ticket way late, considering there were three other candidates who are also vying on the same ticket. In 2022, he was nominated to fly the gubernatorial flag for the Azimio-OKA coalition in the August 2022 general election.

Family He is married to Catherine Igathe, and together they are the parents of three children, one son and two daughters.