Kenyan Electronics Tycoons: Meet Six Wealthy Businesspeople Dominating Kenya’s Electronics Business

Behind this vibrant market, there are several tycoons who have built nationwide distribution networks for fridges, phones, televisions, among other home appliances.

In this article, WoK features six Kenyan tycoons who control the country’s electronics business.

Billionaire businessman David Langat is among the investors who have made a killing from Kenya’s electronics industry.

The DL Group chairman entered the electronics business in 1988.

At that time, he bought televisions and refrigerators from ships arriving at the Port of Mombasa, then distributed them in Mombasa and other parts of Kenya.

In 2025, Langat was one of the investors behind K-Elec, a Korean-backed electronics manufacturing venture that opened a factory at Sarin Industrial Park in Syokimau.

The factory assembles televisions, soundbars, refrigerators, mini-fridges and chest freezers under the K-Elec brand.

In the future, K-Elec plans to manufacture washing machines, microwaves and air fryers.

Joshua Chepkwony, aka CK Joshua, is the tycoon behind Jamii Telecommunications. Jamii operates the Faiba internet and mobile-network brand.

Chepkwony is also associated with East Africa Device Assembly Kenya (EADAK), a company that manufactures smartphones.

The company’s factory is based in Athi River, where it manufactures affordable Android smartphones under the Neon brand.

It also assembles educational tablets and electronic identification devices used by businesses.

In June 2026, Business Daily revealed that EADAK had manufactured 700,000 phones during the financial year ending March 2026.

Umesh Bhojwani is the founder of Vision Plus, one of the most established electronics brands in Kenya. Umesh established the company in 2016.

He also owns the StepUp Technologies company, which sells smart televisions, home entertainment systems, refrigerators, washing machines, chest freezers, water dispensers, and smartwatches.

The business had distributed more than 650,000 television sets by August 2026.

Its factory, which has employed at least 130 workers, can reportedly produce 150,000 smart televisions annually on a single shift.

Brothers Shailesh and Shashi Kanani are the entrepreneurs behind Hotpoint Appliances.

Their business started in 1984 as a small shop at Sarit Centre in Nairobi. From there, it expanded after securing an LG Electronics distributorship in the late 1990s.

The business then added other international brands like LG, Ariston, Westpoint and Kenwood.

Today, the company makes televisions, refrigerators, cookers, washing machines, dishwashers, microwaves and other household appliances.

Hotpoint currently has 14 outlets across five Kenyan towns, including Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu, Eldoret and Diani, alongside three service centres.

Damaris Wanjiru Muriithi, popularly known as Dama Wa Mobile Spares, is another tycoon who controls a significant chunk of the mobile phone spare parts business in Kenya.

Her company, Dama Mobile Spares, supplies phone screens, batteries, charging ports, cameras, speakers, and repair equipment.

These items are compatible with common phone brands in Kenya, including Samsung, Apple iPhone, Tecno, Infinix, Oppo, Huawei, Nokia, and Itel.

The business has at least 8 branches in Nairobi, Nakuru, Nanyuki, Ruiru and Githurai.

Dama started her career as a shop attendant before she saved enough capital to start her own business.

Mukesh Desai is a director and former managing director of Prafulchandra & Brothers, a family-owned business that specializes in supplying lighting, electrical fittings and premium interior products.

According to Business Daily, the company sells international lighting brands such as Mantra and Eglo, alongside Italian Ragno flooring products and Scavolini designer kitchens.

Most of its clients are hotels, property developers, contractors and wealthy homeowners

Desai’s father established the business in 1964 along Nairobi’s Kirinyaga Road. At first, he sold electrical wires, light bulbs, and other merchandise.

Desai joined the enterprise in 1979 after completing secondary school.

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