Nick Mwendwa
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29 December 1979
Nicholas Kithuku Mwendwa | |
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| 2nd President of FKF | |
| In office 10 February 2016 – 7 December 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Sam Nyamweya |
| Succeeded by | Hussein Mohammed |
| FKF TMS Manager | |
| In office 2011–2014 | |
| Chairman, FKF Premier League | |
| In office 2015–2016 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Nicholas Kithuku Mwendwa 29 December 1979 Makueni County, Kenya |
Nicholas Nick Kithuku Mwendwa (born 29 December 1979) is a Kenyan businessman, entrepreneur, founder of Kariobangi Sharks, and the former president of Football Kenya Federation.[1]
Mwendwa was born in Makueni County on 29 December 1979. He went to Makindu 'A' primary school then joined Kiserian Junior Seminary and Thomeandu Secondary School for his secondary education, after which he attended the Kenya College of Accountancy in 1997 from where he graduated with a Diploma in IT.[2] He later pursued and completed a Bachelor of Science Business in Management/Leadership from Bottega University in February 2023.
After completing his IT course, Mwendwa was among a young set of IT professionals hired to deploy robust retail payment solutions at Uchumi's chain of supermarkets. He then founded innovative payment and channel solutions firm Riverbank Solutions in 2009, before forming online shopping platform Swiggo Ltd in 2019, content hub Sweeton Limited in 2021, and DeFi platform Swerri, Zed Payments Ltd, a payments cloud service helping businesses to set up and accept mobile payments, all in 2022, among other businesses.[3]
In March 2025, it was reported that Mwendwa offloaded 75% stake of his firm Riverbank Solutions to KCB.[4]
Football career
In the year 2000, Nick formed a football team in the precincts of Kariobangi and aptly named it Kariobangi Sharks. In 2011 he tried his hand in football politics where he unsuccessfully contested the Nairobi National Executive Committee (NEC) seat[5] during an all-inclusive Kenyan football election. The same year he was named the FIFA Transfer Matching System (TMS) manager at the Federation, a post he served till the year 2014.
In 2015 he was named the chairman of FKF Premier League.[6] It is while holding that capacity that he announced[7] he would vie for the FKF Presidency during the upcoming elections.[8]