Christopher John Kirubi is a Kenyan businessman, industrialist and entrepreneur. He is director at Centum Investment Company, a commercial enterprise conglomerate, in which he's the biggest individual shareholder.
Chris Kirubi was born in poor family. Both of his mother and father died while he was young. He started work even as still in school, working during school vacations to help himself and siblings. His first job was as salesman, promoting and repairing gas cylinders for shell, the petroleum conglomerate.
During the 1960s and early 1970s, Kirubi was working as an Administrator at Kenatco, a government-owned transportation company. Starting around 1971, he started buying run-down buildings withinside the towns of Nairobi and Mombasa, renovating them and either selling the renovated systems or renting them out. He also started acquiring high land in and around Nairobi, and proceeded to erect rental and other industrial properties, the usage of loans from Kenyan financial institutions.
According to the 2011 Forbes annual ratings of Africa's richest people in Kenya, Kirubi was ranked the second one richest man in Kenya and 31st richest in Africa with a net worth of $300 million withinside the 2011 Forbes inaugural rating of Africa's 40 richest humans. He ranked at the back of only the Kenyatta family, in 2011 who had been ranked richest man in Kenya with a net worth of $500 million.
In 2012 , Forbes dropped Kirubi from the listing of Africa's 40 richest At one time, Kirubi owned 9.58% of UAP holdings, an investment and coverage conglomerate that offers investment and coverage offerings withinside the countries of Central and Eastern Africa.
In 2015, he sold shares to Old Mutual and exited the stock. In May 2020, Haco Industries sold the BIC brand to French conglomerate Societe BIC. The deal added to an end 40 years of Haco’s BIC franchise.
Chris Kirubi is concerned in a youth mentorship programme dubbed Ask Kirubi. He drives his ardour of empowering adolescents in Africa via online authorship and physical talks in High faculties and Universities in Kenya.
