Updated 12 November 2026
Geoffrey Ndugwa has been Group Chief Executive Officer of Bamburi Cement PLC since 1 April 2026. The appointment is set out in a board announcement issued over the name of the chairman, Dr John Simba, and later in the company’s Annual Report and Financial Statements 2025, both still posted on bamburigroup.com when checked on 12 November 2026. He succeeded Mohit Kapoor, who resigned as CEO effective 31 March 2026, “upon completion of his assignment in the county,” in the board’s wording.
This is a reading of those official documents, not an interview. The board announcement said the appointment was “subject to regulatory approvals”. The annual report, whose CEO statement is dated 16 April 2026, already lists him as Group Chief Executive Officer and, in the directors’ schedule, records the appointment date as 1 April 2026. This guide does not claim a later, separate confirmation from a regulator beyond what the company itself has published.
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What the board announced
The announcement, headed “Changes to the Board of Bamburi Cement PLC” and signed by Dr John Simba as board chairman, is the company’s official notice of the change. It says Mr Kapoor had been appointed to the board on 1 April 2023 and “successfully steered the Company towards a growth trajectory”. It thanks him for his service. It then announces the appointment of Mr Geoffrey Ndugwa as Chief Executive Officer effective 1 April 2026, subject to regulatory approvals.
The same notice is the source for the board’s short description of his experience: more than two decades at executive level, a role in “business transformations that lead to sustainable profitability”, and work on “rigorous compliance and control frameworks” and alignment with governance standards. That is the company’s language, not an independent assessment. Anyone relying on the appointment for a credit file, a supplier check or a shareholding decision should keep the PDF, not a social-media summary of it.
The annual report later records nationality and role in a directors’ table: G. Ndugwa, Ugandan, Group Chief Executive Officer, appointed 1 April 2026; M. Kapoor, Indian, Group Chief Executive Officer, resigned 31 March 2026. Those lines are useful because they put official dates next to official titles. They do not add a new biography.
Who Geoffrey Ndugwa is
The fuller official biography sits on the company’s board of directors page and, in matching form, in the 2025 annual report. Both describe Geoffrey Ndugwa as a business leader with more than two decades of strategic and commercial leadership across sub-Saharan Africa. His career, the company says, spans strategic and profit-and-loss roles in Uganda, Nigeria, Malawi, Zimbabwe and South Africa. His most recent role before the Bamburi appointment is given as M&A Projects Director for the Holcim Group’s Middle East and Africa region.
The same biography lists three qualifications: an MBA from Edinburgh Business School (Heriot-Watt University); a Bachelor of Engineering with honours in civil engineering from the University of East London; and a postgraduate diploma in marketing from the UK Chartered Institute of Marketing. The annual report styles him as an executive director and uses those academic short forms, MBA and B.Eng (Hons), beside his name.
That is the official record of his background. It does not publish a full chronological CV, a start date for the Holcim M&A role, or a list of earlier employers. This profile does not fill those gaps from unofficial directories. If you need a longer history, the place to ask is the company, not a secondary write-up.
What the 2025 annual report says
Geoffrey Ndugwa signed the Group Chief Executive Officer’s statement for the year ended 31 December 2025 on 16 April 2026, after he had taken the role. The year he is reporting on was, on the company’s own dates, still under Mr Kapoor as CEO. The results in that statement should be read as the group’s 2025 performance, not as a first-year scorecard for the new chief executive.
In the statement, he reports that turnover grew by 14% compared with the prior year, “supported by strong volume growth, logistics optimisation and strategic pricing actions”, and that operating profit increased by 61%. He also reports that net cash generated from operating activities increased by 42% compared with the prior year, “supported by strong operating performance and effective working capital management”. The consolidated statement of profit or loss in the same report shows revenue from contracts with customers, continuing operations, of Kes 24,896 million in 2025, against Kes 21,914 million in 2024.
The statement also records a year of product and industrial work: new products named as Duraplus, a slag-based cement that the company says reduces clinker by 15%, and Powermax, a limestone-based cement that it says reduces clinker by 6%; higher use of rail in logistics; and work on carbon emissions, energy efficiency and alternative fuels. It lists people initiatives from 2025, including monthly CEO engagement calls, a leadership-development programme at three levels, and wider internal mobility. Those are the company’s claims in a signed statutory report. They are not independently audited findings in this article.
Looking ahead, the same statement, still over the name of Geoffrey Ndugwa, says the group is optimistic about 2026 performance, with priorities in innovation, market presence, operational excellence and “expanded green solutions”. The chairman’s statement, signed by Dr John P. N. Simba on 28 April 2026, thanks directors for a “smooth transition from HOLCIM to the AMSONS GROUP” and says the company enters 2026 with “renewed purpose and optimism”.
The company he now leads
Bamburi Cement PLC is a Kenyan cement and concrete group. The 2025 report says it operates two plants that serve the Kenyan market and export markets: an integrated clinkering and cement plant in Mombasa, and a grinding plant in Athi River. It also reports subsidiaries including Bamburi Special Products and Bamburi Eco Systems. The report’s strategy section says the group signed a US$250 million (KSh 32 billion) engineering, procurement and construction contract with Sinoma CBMI Construction Co., Ltd for a 1.6 million-tonne-a-year clinkerisation factory in Matuga, Kwale County, a project we have already covered in our Matuga plant report.
On ownership, the report says that after the takeover transaction, the new majority shareholder, Amsons Group, held 96.54% of the business as at the end of 2025. In the related-party notes, the ultimate parent is given as Amsons Tanzania Limited, incorporated in Tanzania. The chairman’s overview also says the group aims to more than double clinker production capacity from 1 million tonnes to 2.6 million tonnes a year, and that during 2025 the company migrated to a new enterprise resource planning system.
The same report describes the board, for the year ended 31 December 2025, as eight directors: six non-executive (three independent and three not independent) and two executive directors. Two of the six non-executive directors were Amsons Group shareholder nominees, under Article 94 of the company’s articles, which allows a shareholder with more than 25% to nominate two non-executive directors.
Board changes recorded since the previous report are the appointment of Karim Anjarwalla as a non-executive director effective 12 June 2025, the resignation of Rita Kavashe effective the same date, and the resignation of Mbuvi Ngunze effective 15 August 2025. The board page and the report list Dr John Simba as chair, Eugene Antera as chief financial officer from 1 June 2023, subject to regulatory approvals, and Joyce Munene as company secretary, legal and compliance, appointed effective 20 July 2023.
Readers who followed earlier takeover coverage, including our report on a 2024 counter-bid, should treat that as history. The document that now describes control of the group is the 2025 annual report, not a bid announcement from two years earlier.
What this profile does not settle
A company profile is not a credit rating, a product review or a prediction of 2026 earnings. The 14% turnover and 61% operating-profit figures are the company’s official presentation of 2025, a year that ended before Geoffrey Ndugwa became CEO. This article does not adjust those figures, does not compare them with rivals, and does not infer a share-price view.
It also does not reconstruct a private CV, confirm the status of any regulatory approval beyond the company’s later filings, or update the Matuga plant timetable past what the annual report and our earlier plant story already say. If the company issues a later board change, a new annual report or a different official biography, those documents, not this page, will be the record to use.
Frequently asked questions
When did Geoffrey Ndugwa become CEO?
The board announcement and the directors’ schedule in the 2025 annual report both give 1 April 2026 as the effective date. Mohit Kapoor resigned effective 31 March 2026.
Where is the official announcement?
On bamburigroup.com, in the investor-relations notices, as a PDF titled as a board announcement on the CEO appointment. The same change is reflected in the 2025 annual report, whose CEO statement is dated 16 April 2026. Both were still posted when checked on 12 November 2026.
What did he do before Bamburi?
The official biography says his most recent role was M&A Projects Director for the Holcim Group’s Middle East and Africa region, after senior commercial and profit-and-loss roles in Uganda, Nigeria, Malawi, Zimbabwe and South Africa. A longer employer-by-employer history is not in the documents cited here.
Who chairs the board?
Dr John P. N. Simba, who signed both the April 2026 appointment announcement and the chairman’s statement in the 2025 annual report, dated 28 April 2026.
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