How firms use performance index to succeed

Crown Paints CEO Rakesh Rao (right) receives a certificate of sponsorship from Tom Onguru, Head of OPI marketing, for sponsoring the Kenya Institute of Management’s OPI networking forum.

NAIROBI: “In 2006, I was named the Manager of the Year and my life changed from there,” remembers Sanjay Brahambatt, managing director of East Africa’s largest plastics manufacturer - Blowplast Group.

After participating in the Kenya Institute of Management’s (KIM) Company of the Year awards for five years without success, Blowplast was finally recognised when its then finance manager, Sanjay, was declared Manager of the Year. This was his life’s turning point. Two months after being awarded, Sanjay was promoted to the position of chief executive officer.