Michael Joseph (businessman)

Michael Joseph is a South African businessman. He was the long serving chairman of Kenya Airways, a position he held from October 2016 to June 2025. He was previously the CEO of Safaricom from July 2000 to November 2010,^[1][2][3] as founder and CEO, and then again as acting CEO from July 2019 to March 2020.  He is also chairman of the M-PESA Foundation and the M-PESA Foundation Academy. He was until recently (October 2017) Vodafone's director of Mobile Money and was responsible for leading the strategic growth and development of M-PESA proposition across the Vodafone footprint.^{[citation needed]}

Joseph was the founding CEO of Safaricom Limited, a Kenyan mobile network operator.^{[citation needed]}