For that meeting I wouldn’t order pork for sure, maybe a chicken salad. Not to mean I have none.ĭinner with one person, who and what will you order? I have been blessed, and so I haven’t had time to focus on my disappointments. (Thinks hard) I believe I have been very fortunate in my life. What has been the greatest disappointment in life? A lot of my friends are sports fanatics so I’m always hanging with them to watch sports. Then I went to the States and developed my love for American football. In 1995, I went for the World Cup Rugby, in SA, I fell in love with Springboks. I have always been very active, since St Mary’s High School where I was the youngest student to represent the 1st 15 Rugby team. I was raised by a single mother, my dad passed on when I was three-years-old. You have mentioned your mother twice, what’s your dad’s story? And I think this fear is tied back to my childhood, and how I was raised by my mother to always excel. Ninety per cent of the people who talk about me don’t know me.įailure. Well, except people closest to me, my family, that is, because really they are the ones who know me. If you had asked me that question in my younger years, I would have said flatly that I don’t suffer fools gladly but now I know that people are different and so can’t be judged by the same parameters.īut do you care that people think these things of you? So from the onset much was expected of me and it follows that it’s something that I grew to accommodate as a person and so as a professional I expect more from people. I did pretty well in school but if I came third my mom would ask me who came first and second and what they have that I don’t. I was quieter in school, so maybe the aloof part. I grew up introverted, at least outside my own family. (Amused) I think it depends on whom you ask. I’ve been doing some asking around and a good number of people have something strong to say about you. Disappointingly he isn’t the egoistic bully I was expecting. We meet for a carnivorous lunch at Intercon’s Makuti Bar on a sunny afternoon. At KTB, he was seconded to the National Social and Economic Council secretariat as the team leader for the development of Kenya’s Vision 2030 economic plan. He has worked for Coca-Cola, Kenya Tourism Board (KTB), Serena Hotels and now the Intercontinental Hotels Group. His sales and marketing experience spans from detergents, personal care products, pharmaceuticals, banking products, fried chicken, automobiles and the tourism sector. Michael has spent the last 20 years working across Africa, covering up to 40 countries in various capacities. If you haven’t, then you might have heard of his reputation, which doesn’t dabble in the grey area you either like him, or you don’t. If you are in the hospitality industry chances are you’ve heard of Michael Opondo.
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