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He’s the deal roller to EABL’s planned Kes15billion brewery plant in Kisumu.
Until last month, I didn’t know who Ivan Menezes was. That’s because he doesn’t own deals, he makes them instead.
He’s the man behind the curtain – more powerful even than the man in front of it…he’s the Chief Executive Officer of alcoholic beverage giant Diageo, a subsidiary firm of the East African Breweries Limited (EABL).
He’s a multi-billion-dollar networker, business influencer with a reputation that codes along with it. A connector, he calls the shots, quietly but surely.
Menezes’ job is to pull strings. What he’s connecting now isn’t a takeover or a buyout, but he’s the deal breaker behind EABL’s planned brewery plant in Kisumu, to be built at an estimated cost of Kes15billion.
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