{"id":20823,"date":"2021-05-10T13:29:38","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T10:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbs.strathmore.edu\/newsite\/?p=20823"},"modified":"2021-05-10T13:29:38","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T10:29:38","slug":"sbs-alumna-named-ceo-of-the-year-at-the-think-business-insurance-awards-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbs.strathmore.edu\/en_gb\/sbs-alumna-named-ceo-of-the-year-at-the-think-business-insurance-awards-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"SBS Alumna Named CEO of the Year at the Think Business Insurance Awards 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start 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wishes to congratulate Catherine Karimi\u00a0on her recent nomination as CEO of the year in the Think Business Insurance Awards 2020, a first for women in the insurance sector.<\/p>\n<p>Catherine joined APA Insurance in 2017 as the Chief Executive Officer and has had a stellar career, with the APA Life Fund growing by over Ksh 2 billion under her tenure among other achievements.\u00a0 Prior to joining APA, she worked for several insurance companies under different capacities among them Acting Managing Director of Kenya Alliance Insurance Company.<\/p>\n<p>Catherine is an alumna of the<a href=\"https:\/\/sbs.strathmore.edu\/en_gb\/executive-education\/executive-talent-development\/senior-management-programs\/senior-management-leadership-program\/\">\u00a0Senior Management Leadership Programme<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations Catherine!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.2.1 (Yoast SEO v27.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SBS Alumna Named CEO of the Year at the Think Business Insurance Awards 2020 - Strathmore University Business School<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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