Mboya has been a corporate executive for over 25 years and has held a number of senior executive positions at global multinational firms, including being the Global Director for
Oral B Oral Care at Procter and Gamble for five years and being the General Manager of
Coca-Cola South Africa from 2008 to 2011. She is the immediate former president of the
Coca-Cola Africa Foundation and the group director of the Eurasia Africa Group (EAG) for women’s economic empowerment at
Coca-Cola and is the daughter of the late
Tom Mboya, a Kenyan nationalist leader and one of the founding fathers of the
Republic of Kenya and the late
Pamela Mboya, a renowned diplomat who was Kenya’s representative to
UN Habitat.
Tom Mboya was a well-known trade unionist, educationist, Pan-Africanist, author, and Cabinet Minister in Kenya's first post-independence government. She is also the former First Lady of
Nairobi County, Kenya's largest county and the capital city and economic center of Kenya. Mboya holds a number of board positions, including the chair of
Liberty Group, a publicly traded company in the
Nairobi Stock Exchange. Mboya is the founder of the Zawadi Africa Educational Fund, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that provides scholarships and leadership development training to academically gifted, marginalized African girls to enable them to attend top colleges and universities around the world with the objective of creating a pipeline of African female leaders. The Zawadi Africa program is based on the Africa Student Airlifts program launched by her father and President
John F. Kennedy in 1959 that enabled several participants, including
Barack Obama Sr, father of President
Barack Obama, and Professor
Wangari Mathaai to study in the U.S. Mboya has been a senior executive on the global stage for over 25 years, holding a series of positions in general management. She started as a brand manager at Procter and Gamble in
Cincinnati, Ohio, and became an associate director and then a director working in the paper division and in the oral care division. Mboya moved to
the Coca-Cola Company as the General Manager for the
Southern Africa region in 2008 and then became the President of the
Coca-Cola Africa Foundation, where she successfully forged public-private partnerships to help resource, fund, and provide technical expertise for the foundation's initiatives, raising over $120 million in funding towards the 5by20 initiative and working with international partners including
USAID, "GETF,"
DFID,
TechnoServe, MercyCorps, and the
International Finance Corporation and empowering over 700,000 women. ==Zawadi Africa==