This archive report was first published on 26 June 2020.
Published on June 26, 2020, Gina Din-Kariuki is a pioneering woman entrepreneur, a mentor to other female professionals, and a philanthropist through her charitable organisation The Gina Din Foundation.
With over two decades of experience in the industry, Gina Din has managed brand communications and stakeholder engagement for several blue-chip organisations, including Safaricom, Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB), Kenya Red Cross, Samsung, and General Motors.
Her firm, Gina Din Group, has handled major crises, such as the 2007 Kenya Airways plane crash in Doula, and was behind the ‘Kenyans for Kenya’ initiative, a response to hunger and famine that was ravaging some parts of Kenya in 2011.
Before launching her own firm, Gina Din spent 13 years as head of corporate affairs for Barclays Bank of Kenya, where she developed expertise in the financial services sector.
Today, Gina Din Group is an affiliate of Edelman, having been acquired by the global agency in February this year.
Gina Din Kariuki has been named one of the continent’s 100 Most Influential People by New African magazine and in 2015 was named East Africa Business Woman of the Year for which she received a CNBC Africa All Africa Business Leaders Award.
