The girl who quit engineering for finance

GLADYS KARURI, Group Finance Director British-American

Age: 38

Education: BA Mathematics and Economics, University of Nairobi; CPA (K); pursuing an MBA.

Mother of two boys aged 10 and four years.

Good for you, is it an online course?

No, I travel to the UK often for one week taught classes, which I have just finished.

Isn’t it hectic, the constant travel to school?

Sometimes it is but I don’t mind because I also get to shop.

So you like shopping?

(Laughing....) I love shopping. I plan to shopping whenever I travel.

What do you buy and where?

I can spend the whole day in the mall shopping for myself and the family. But when it comes to my kids, I am focused, I go straight to Next.

And in Nairobi?
I spend a lot of time at Village Market, its near home.