Dr Nelson Kuria has been in retirement for nearly a decade now. But has he? Retirement, he has discovered, is many things—one of them an oxymoron. He chuckles at the contradiction.
“I’m sometimes busier now than when I was a Group CEO,” he says from his office on the 11th floor of CIC headquarters. Behind him, a wooden coat hanger holds his jacket—a metaphor, really, like a footballer’s hung boots.