{{Kenya Airways (KQ) has intensified the search for a new Chief Executive Officer through an advertisement for the position, as Titus Naikuni prepares to retire in November this year.}}<\/p>\n
Kenya’s national carrier is looking for a business leader with experience in driving aggressive and sustainable growth, managing complex capital intensive businesses and delivering operational and safety excellence.<\/p>\n
The candidate should also have 10 to 15 years experience in senior management and a minimum of 10 years as an Executive Director.<\/p>\n
The KQ Board of Directors extended Naikuni\u2019s term for another year in November last year due to the various projects that the airline was handling.<\/p>\n
Naikuni joined Kenya Airways in February 2003. Before that, he was the Managing Director for Magadi Soda Company and was also a member of a team of World Bank sponsored Kenyan technocrats, known as the \u201cDream Team\u201d that was engaged during the Moi regime to turn around the economy.<\/p>\n
He also served as a Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Transport and Communications between August 1999 and March 2001.<\/p>\n
Naikuni\u2019s departure comes at a time when the company has launched its 10 year growth strategy \u2018Project Mawingu\u2019, a huge investment in new aircraft, smarter cabins, superb lounges and new technologies to bring a more modern, comfortable and connected experience in the air and on the ground to its customers.<\/p>\n
The airline is set to receive the first of its six Boeing 787 Dreamliner planes on April 4, 2014.<\/p>\n
This is part of its fleet and route expansion plan.<\/p>\n
The second B777-300ER will be received in May followed by a receipt of five other state-of-the-art Dreamliner planes within the course of the year and will increase the number of direct flights and frequencies to new and existing major destinations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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