Management Team

Maxwell Wahome is the Group Managing Director for Longhorn Publishers PLC, a position he has held since September 2018. He previously served the Company as Chief Finance and Operations Officer, a position he held for two years.
Maxwell is an expert in finance and strategy having previously worked for over 10 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Nairobi and Johannesburg. He also has vast experience in the manufacturing, service, mining and FMCG sectors.
He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree (Accounting) from the University of Nairobi. He is a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).
He is currently pursuing a Masters degree in Strategic Planning from the Heriot-Watt University (UK).

Michael Mwaura was appointed as the Chief Finance & Operations Officer in January 2020. He has worked for over 12 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa across a number of sectors including telecommunications, financial services, manufacturing, public sector and automotive.

He has been working with clients across the East Africa region, delivering and managing assurance services for both financial and operational reporting, and has been responsible for internal and external audits and compliance-related projects.

He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree (Actuarial Science: First Class Honors) and is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of the Institute of the Certified Public Accountants of Kenya.

Keziah was appointed the Senior HRBP in 2020, having first joined the company in 2016 to support the HR function. Prior to joining Longhorn Publishers, she was the Human Resource Manager at PFL Group International. She has over 15 years of multi-sectoral experience across the HR sphere, having worked with various clients/partners across the globe from America, Europe, Asia and West Africa.

She holds a Masters of Business Administration (HR, Strategy and Entrepreneurship), and a Bachelor of Science Degree in International Business Administration (Marketing and Hotel Management) from USIU, a Higher Diploma from IHRM and is a full member of IHRM.

Over the years, she has excelled in people-centric initiatives such as performance enhancement, organizational culture transformation, learning & development, succession planning among other facets of HR. At Longhorn, she has helped roll out the culture pillar of the Longhorn 2023 Strategy, while also implementing the HR-related initiatives around the post-covid recovery.