He quit a high-paying job to build a start-up linking students to foreign universities

Craydel founder and chief executive Manish Sardana during the interview at his office in Nairobi on June 22.

Photo credit: Lucy Wanjiru | NMG

Manish Sardana walked away from a lucrative corporate career at the height of the Covid-19 scourge, resigning from global advertising giant WPP after seven years in Kenya.

He had risen through the ranks of the WPP-Scangroup network to become managing director for Africa, earning what he describes as “expat-level salaries” at a time when millions around the world were clinging to their jobs.

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