Lenny Nganga

Board Member

Lenny Nganga is the CEO of the Omnicom media group in East Africa, the group comprises 2 leading media agencies Saracen OMD and Saracen PHD in Kenya, Saladin Media in Uganda and Olaari Saracen in Tanzania.

Lenny co-founded Saracen OMD in 2002, and PHD in 2007 Prior to taking his entrepreneurial leap of faith, he worked for global advertising agencies Ogilvy and Mather and McCann Erickson, where he created and executed communications strategies across East and West Africa for a total of 8 years.

Lenny has 28 years’ experience in the communications industry, and he has worked across most Sub-Saharan Africa markets, earning the HK McCann Global Leadership Award for his passion in media along the way, as well as managing multi-country businesses for over 19years.

Lenny is passionate about data driven marketing and to elevate planning data he served as the Chairman of the oversight committee of the Kenya Audience Research foundation, from 2010 to 2020 on a pro-bono basis. The foundation’s primary objective is to bring all industry stakeholders together to conceive, and execute the highest quality media consumption research.

He also served as Chairman of the Association of Practitioners in Advertising from 2014 to 2018 and was Vice-Chairman for three years before ascending to the chair.

Lenny holds a BA in Political Science and Philosophy from the University of Nairobi as a base upon which he has layered multiple professional courses in advertising and leadership. He is married with two children, enjoys golf, wildlife safaris, and computer gaming in his spare time.