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Hon Lily C. Ng’ok is a strong and firm leader with rich experience in various leadership positions. She is the Immediate Former Deputy Governor, Kericho County and also the county Minister for Education. In the County, she impacted greatly on the service delivery and transformation of education in the county. She is a seasoned educationist having served as dean of students and lecturer at the Kisii University where she contributed immensely to the development of the University. Her excellency lily Ng’ok also has had a celebrated teaching career in various high schools in Kenya. She has also served in other responsible positions including Board Chair and Board member in many schools. She is engaged in various Community activities including sponsoring over 83 high school students and currently sponsoring 30 students, a women leader leading operation okoa mlevi in Bureti Constituency, supporting vulnerable single women. She has also participated in church activities in the women Ministry of SDA church in the Kericho County. She is also well travelled having visited countries like the USA, Canada, China, Australia, south Africa, Nigeria, Egypt and all the East Africa Countries. Hon. Ng’ok Holds a Master’s Degree (Arts) from the Northwestern University, USA and a Bachelor’s Degree Arts (Education) from Egerton University. She is also pursuing her PhD studies. PS, ICT & the Digital Economy Representative to PS ICT Emmanuel Kata Kimeu is a holder of Master of Computer Applications (MCA) degree from Shivaji University India. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Economics, Sociology and Community Development from Agra University, India. He is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and has attended several short-term courses on Information Technology (IT) and finance. He started his career at Professional Technologies Ltd (ProTec) – a Cyber 1 Company in 1999 as an IT support engineer and rose through the ranks to become the technical director and finally the managing director. He left in 2012 after a 13 year stint at the company which specializes in providing Information Communication and related Technology (ICT) security solutions and services. After leaving ProTec he joined McAfee Inc. the same year as the Territory Sales/Channel Account Manager (East Africa) where he worked till the end of year 2014. McAfee is the leading ICT security solutions provider in the world. He joined ADS-SAS (Now Mindware FZ LLC) a leading ICT solutions distributor in Middle East and Africa in the beginning of 2015 as the Regional Head Sales – Rest of Africa (ROA) – English Speaking where he worked till January 2018. He joined his previous employer ProTec as the Technical Services Director from August to November 2018 after which he joined Machakos County Government as the Chief Officer – ICT until October 2022. He is now a Secretary, ICT – Security and Audit Control at the State Department of ICT and Digital Economy in Ministry of Information, Communications and The Digital Economy from 01st March 2024. His long-standing career in ICT has seen him gain a wealth of experience providing solutions and services to corporates, Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and government organisations in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Djibouti, Ghana, Nigeria, Gambia, Mozambique, Mauritius and Madagascar just to mention a few. He brings over 18 years wealth of ICT experience and expertise to the ministry which he believes together with the ICT team will go a long way to build modern and versatile ICT systems which are responsive to the ICT requirements and needs for proper service provision to the people of Kenya. His maxim is to leave anything he touches better than he found it. Benard Leitich is an advocate of the High Court of Kenya with close to 20 years post admission experience with expertise in land administration and policy development. He is also a Commissioner for Oaths and a Notary Public.

Lawyers should note the new appointments to the Kenya ICT Authority's board, which may impact compliance with regulations and policies related to digital services in Kenya.

Source: Original reporting via Kenya ICT Authority