Wandia Gichuru

Wandia Gichuru is the CEO and co-founder of Vivo Activewear.

Early life and background

Wandia Gichuru was born in Montreal, Canada to a Canadian mother and a Kenyan father. She is the only girl and the second born among three other siblings.

Education

She studied at Kilimani Primary School and later joined Loreto Convent Msongari High School.

Work

Before she went to study in Cape Town, she worked for Kenya Wildlife Service and Citibank. worked as an associate at JP Morgan (London), a governance adviser with the UK Department for International Development (London) and a policy adviser with the United Nations Development Programme (New York).

Wandia left employment and started a fashion company in Kenya in 2011. and is its CEO as of 2016. She was also an investor in the Kenya Commercial Bank Lion's Den show in seasons 1 and 2.

Awards

The Kenyan Fashion Brand of the year 2017