Aiden k 
Abraham Ng’etich as Ag.CEO,Africa Mega Agricorp PLC (AMAC)
- AMAC Overhauls Board,Names Acting CEO in Major Leadership Shake-Up
Africa Mega Agricorp PLC (AMAC) has appointed Abraham Ng’etich as acting chief executive officer in a sweeping leadership overhaul that also includes a new chairman and two directors.
The changes mark the company’s most significant governance shake-up since its transformation from Kenya Orchards Limited into a regional agribusiness and trade platform.
In a statement, the company said the appointments took effect on June 3, 2026, alongside the resignation of directors Yebeltal Getachew and Michael Foley, whose departures close a chapter that began during the company’s transition into new ownership.
The leadership changes come at a pivotal moment for AMAC as it seeks to execute an ambitious vision of becoming a pan-African agribusiness, commodities trading, and supply-chain infrastructure player despite operating from a relatively modest financial base.
Leading the new board is Phillip Ndabari Muriuki, who has been appointed Chairman and Independent Non-Executive Director.
Muriuki brings more than 25 years of experience across commercial banking, payments systems, governance, risk management, and technology transformation.
His career spans senior positions at Standard Chartered Bank, Absa Bank, Al Rajhi Bank in Saudi Arabia, Jamii Bora Bank(now Kingdom Bank), and Consolidated Bank of Ghana,giving him extensive exposure to financial markets across Africa and the Middle East.
Industry observers view the appointment as a strategic move aimed at strengthening governance structures and enhancing investor confidence as the company pursues regional expansion and seeks to attract institutional capital.
At the executive level, Abraham Ng’etich has been appointed Acting Chief Executive Officer.A technology and business executive with experience spanning fintech, telecommunications,transport and logistics, agribusiness, and digital trade systems, Ng’etich holds a Master of Science degree in Data Science and Analytics from Strathmore University.
Joining the board as Executive Director is James Watenga Kamau, a seasoned commercial executive with more than two decades of leadership experience across FMCG, pharmaceuticals, retail, and energy sectors in Eastern Africa.
Kamau currently serves as Vice President at AMAC Oil & Gas, where he has been involved in developing digital energy infrastructure platforms for downstream petroleum trade and financing.
Meanwhile, entrepreneur Joshua Gakinya has been appointed Independent Non-Executive Director.Gakinya is known for his involvement in technology-enabled agriculture, digital marketing, real estate development, and innovation-driven enterprises.
Notably,both Ng’etich and Kamau currently hold senior roles within AMAC Oil & Gas, a subsidiary of InvestAfrica, the Dubai-based investment group that has steadily increased its influence over the listed company in recent years.
The latest appointments are closely tied to a broader corporate transformation that began in 2023 when InvestAfrica first acquired a strategic stake in Kenya Orchards Limited, one of the oldest companies listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange(NSE).
The process accelerated dramatically in 2024 when InvestAfrica completed an approximately US$5.88 million acquisition that gave it an 84 percent controlling stake in the company.
Following the transaction,Kenya Orchards underwent a comprehensive rebranding exercise and emerged as Africa Mega Agricorp PLC, reflecting a shift from its traditional focus on fruit processing and agricultural products to a broader vision encompassing agricultural trade, logistics, commodities, energy, and digital infrastructure.
The company has since unveiled plans to build an integrated agricultural ecosystem connecting farmers, processors, exporters, logistics providers, and international buyers through technology-enabled trade platforms.
Its strategy extends beyond Kenya, with management describing AMAC as an agribusiness and trade infrastructure platform with operations spanning all 47 counties and market linkages across five continents.
A key pillar of this strategy is the establishment of a global distribution and trading hub at the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC), one of the world’s largest free-trade ecosystems for commodities.
Management believes the platform could provide African producers with direct access to global markets while improving efficiency, transparency,value capture across agricultural value chains.
