Francis Gitau Mungai, the newly appointed board chair of Family Banks, passed away three weeks after taking over for Wilfred Kiboro, who was retiring.
The Family Bank board of directors and management announced Gitau’s passing in a statement. Gitau was receiving treatment in the United States.
Francis Gitau Mungai, an architect, joined the Family Bank Limited board in 2016 and had been vice chairman for the previous two years prior to his most recent appointment as chairman.
He served as the chair of the board’s credit and human resources committees.
He was a director of Pesa Pap Digital, a Family Bank Ltd. subsidiary, and a member of the Nominations and Governance Committee.
Arch. Mungai had been an advocate of the Board since 1996, having served as an architect as well as a client before joining the Board.
He was a great asset to the Bank’s expansion, and everyone who had the pleasure of knowing him will deeply miss him.
With more than thirty years of experience in both architecture and contract management, he was a seasoned professional.
In addition to holding executive positions in well-known companies like Urban Innovation Group (UIG) in Los Angeles and Triad Architects in Nairobi, he was a founding partner of Aaki Consultants, Architects, and Urban Designers.
He graduated with first-class honors from the University of Nairobi’s Bachelor of Architecture program and the University of California, Los Angeles’ Master of Architecture program.
