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Lerionka Tiampati
Group CEO
KTDA
Private Sector & Development author
Lerionka Tiampati is the Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) Holdings Ltd. He holds a postgraduate degree (MSc.) in Marketing and Product Management from the Cranfield Institute of Technology (United Kingdom), a diploma from the Chartered Institute of Marketing (United Kingdom) and undergraduate degree in Business Administration from the University of Nairobi.
KTDA
The Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) is the leading tea exporter in Kenya. Founded on a cooperative model, the KTDA model is unique in the world: over 600,000 small planters own 54 Tea Companies, which provide 60% of the country’s total production. The Tea Companies are in turn direct shareholders and owners of KTDA Holding, a service provider which operates throughout the value chain with various subsidiaries responsible for logistics, sales and distribution, technical assistance to planters or micro-credit services.