The KPMG Top Woman CEO of the Year Award

The KPMG Top Woman CEO of the Year Award has been presented to MCC Member Juliet Kennedy (née Aggmanning) founder of Greenspoon, the online grocery store that delivers farm-fresh products directly to the customer.

The award recognises female founders that have made an impact in their businesses as extraordinary leaders who have steered their companies to great financial success.

Greenspoon is Kenya’s first online grocery store where sustainability lies at the heart of everything they do. The business delivers to customers the same day, every day of the year, and supports local farmers and suppliers from the region. Greenspoon focuses on organic, delicious, healthy, safe, local and sustainable products at an affordable price. Juliet founded Greenspoon in 2016 after she struggled to find healthy and safe products to feed her children.

As well as scooping the KPMG Top Women CEO of the Year award, Greenspoon also came third in the KPMG/Business Daily Top 100 Sustainability Awards. This award recognises companies that have rooted Environmental, Social and Governance strategies at the core of their business.

Greenspoon was Kenya’s first online retailer to make use of electric vehicles for deliveries, and today has a fleet that includes three EVs and four electric motorbikes. In addition, Greenspoon works closely with suppliers to streamline logistics and packaging materials, and recently achieved B Corporation status, which is a globally recognised certification for businesses that put people and planet at the heart of their business

“These two awards mean a great deal to us as a business. It has always been our belief that food has the power to change the world, and that businesses can put people and planet at their core and still be profitable.

I believe Kenya has a huge amount to offer our people and the world, embracing sustainability by supporting local producers, bringing healthy products to our customers and being a force for change.”

Juliet Kennedy KPMG Top Woman CEO of the Year 2022 Greenspoon

Founder of the Trust for African Rock Art (TARA) MCC Member David Coulson is awarded Member of the Order of the British Empire

Writer, photographer, adventurer and founder and Executive Chairman of the Trust for African Rock Art (TARA) - the only organisation working to try to protect Africa’s Rock Art legacy - David Coulson, was recently awarded an MBE for services to the recording, preservation and valorisation of Rock Art in Africa.

Africa has the largest number of examples of Rock Art on the planet, dating back through centuries, revealing a rich and intriguing insight into early African life.

Driving the length and breadth of Africa for over 40 years, David has rediscovered and documented more rock art sites across the continent than any other person in history.

In the mid-1990s David founded TARA, an international organisation committed to recording the rich rock art heritage of the African continent and where possible, safeguarding those sites. Realising that the greatest threat to this remarkable heritage was ignorance, David used his photography and international network to create a greater global awareness of the importance and endangered state of this art. For his efforts he has been honoured with an MBE.

David Coulson MBE Founder & Executive Chairman of TARA

For me this honour is heartwarming confirmation that the world is finally beginning to take rock art seriously. Dating from long before writing was conceived these unique images give us windows onto longvanished worlds.