ENTERPRENEUR

Joanne Mwangi – Yelbert is the Founder and current CEO of Professional Marketing Services Limited, a company that she singly started about 22 years ago.

Group is the only Kenyan firm to bag 3 Awards at the Kenya Top 100 Medium sized awards to date - being the No. 1 enterprise, the best in the service sector and with Joanne as the top entrepreneur in 2010.

Joanne is also the founder and chair of Federation of Women Entrepreneur Associations (FEWA), which aims at capacity building, entrepreneurship and business development training, service delivery, creating rights awareness and mentoring especially of young women entrepreneurs. The organization empowers women who are the backbone of our society and this has brought a significant change in the country. Through FEWA, she represents Kenya on the FEMCOM board.

Joanne has served as Chair of many organizations including; Organization of Women in International Trade (OWIT), Eastern Africa Women Entrepreneur Exchange Network Kenya Chapter (EAWEEXN), Advertising Standards Council and an accomplished Rotarian among many others

Due to her exceptional leadership skills and excellent performance at PMS over the years, Joanne has gained a reputation in the local and regional market for providing exceptional service delivery by ensuring that there is mutual trust among employees and clients, resulting in the expansion of the company to cater for greater marketing needs.