Kilonzo, Charles

Konza Technopolis Development Authority, Kenya

Charles Kilonzo is a director at Konza Technopolis Development Authority and the Chairperson of the Business Development, Innovation and Research and Strategy Board Committee. He is a governance, strategic leadership, marketing, and corporate communications expert with over 20 years of experience in the fields of media, public relations, advocacy, marketing, management, and governance. He has served as a public relations, corporate affairs, and resource mobilization professional at various institutions among them St. Paul’s University and Daystar University.

He has immense experience in journalism and media productions having founded a communication, marketing & media production firm – Live Studios Media Ltd, in 2015 and currently leads operations at the firm. In this capacity, he has interviewed many national and international leaders among them former President Uhuru Kenyatta and the Former President of Nigeria Olusegun Obasanjo.

He served as a member of the Board of Directors at the Kenya Institute of Mass Communication in the period between 2015 – 2018 and thereafter elected Chair of the Education Committee of the KIMC Board. Through his leadership, Mr. Kilonzo oversaw the overhaul of the training curriculum at KIMC incorporating the latest technologies like digital Media technology, green screen productions, and the place of social media in news productions and dissemination.