Job Title: group CFO
Company: Gebeya
Louis Owoko is the group chief financial officer at Gebeya, a position he has held since August 2023.
He joined Gebeya in July 2022 as finance director, where he directed accounting operations across its entities and advised on venture capital and private equity fundraising.
Before joining Gebeya, he spent a year at Bank of Kigali as head of department for finance and budget.
He also worked as a financial management consultant with The Scalable CFO in Dubai from October 2020 and served as a director at Ollocom Consulting in Nairobi.
Louis spent more than nine years as head of treasury at Kenya Railways, where he set up the corporation's treasury department. Before that he spent more than five years at Safaricom, rising from accountant to senior accountant.
He served on the East Africa advisory council of the Association of Corporate Treasurers between July 2017 and June 2022, and on the Kenya advisory council of ACCA between April 2019 and March 2021.
Louis holds an MSc in finance from the University of Wales, a BSc in applied accounting from Oxford Brookes University and a BCom in finance from the University of Nairobi. He is a fellow of ACCA and a certified treasury professional. He is also a certified financial modeler.
Work
Aug 2023 - Present: group chief financial officer, Gebeya
Jul 2022 - Jul 2023: finance director, Gebeya
May 2021 - Jun 2022: head of department, finance and budget, Bank of Kigali
Oct 2020 - May 2021: financial management consultant, The Scalable CFO
Nov 2019 - May 2021: director, Ollocom Consulting
Apr 2019 - Mar 2021: member, ACCA Kenya advisory council
Jul 2017 - Jun 2022: advisory council member for East Africa, Association of Corporate Treasurers
May 2015 - Aug 2015: lecturer, Institute of Advanced Technology
Jun 2010 - Oct 2019: head of treasury, Kenya Railways
Dec 2006 - May 2010: senior accountant, Safaricom
Oct 2004 - Dec 2006: accountant, Safaricom
Nov 2003 - Jul 2004: graduate management trainee, Industrial Promotion Services
Education
Master of science in finance, University of Wales (London School of Business and Finance)
Bachelor of science, applied accounting, Oxford Brookes University
Bachelor of commerce, finance and financial management services, University of Nairobi
Chartered certified accountant, ACCA
Certificate, bitcoins, blockchains and digital currencies, University of Nicosia
Gebeya
Gebeya is a technology company with entities in the United States and Africa, including Kenya, Ethiopia and Senegal.
