Samuel Irungu
Kenyan business strategist Samuel Irungu has spent the past decade proving that disciplined finance can turbo-charge healthcare impact. Named managing director of PathCare Kenya in April 2022, the former Equity Bank commercial chief is steering the laboratory provider through an expansion drive that partners directly with hospitals and brings high-end diagnostics once flown abroad into local labs, cuts that save patients both time and money.
Irungu’s toolkit was forged across finance roles at PwC, Diageo, Vivo Energy and DMI SSA before he took charge of business performance at Equity Bank, experience that sharpened his command of budgets, risk and data-led growth. He complements that pedigree with an MBA in finance from the University of Nairobi and Certified Public Accountant status, grounding every capital decision in rigorous numbers. Inside PathCare he is building analytic dashboards to streamline sample workflows and scouting regional joint ventures that would place satellite labs along East Africa’s busiest trade corridors. His forward playbook includes a bond-financed rollout into Uganda and Tanzania and an AI-assisted pathology engine designed to deliver cancer results within 24 hours. For Irungu, world-class diagnostics should travel at the speed of data, not jet freight and Kenya is poised to lead the shift.