Bob Collymore Biography: Age😭wife😭Kids😭Net worth 😭 Death 😭

Bob Collymore Wiki, Bio, Age, Wife (Wambui Kamiru), First Wife, Kids, Family, Cancer, Net Worth, Death
Bob Collymore Wiki, Bio, Age, Wife (Wambui Kamiru), First Wife, Kids, Family, Cancer, Net Worth, Death

Bob Collymore (Robert William Collymore) was a Guyanese-born British businessman based in Kenya. He was the chief executive officer of Safaricom, a multinational telecommunications company based in Kenya. He was also a member of the Kenya Vision 2030 Delivery Board In 2012 he was awarded the Moran of the Burning Spear by the President of Kenya. Bob died on July 1, 2019, at his home from cancer, acute myeloid leukemia.

During an interview, Bob revealed that he began earning money at the age of 12 by making art pieces from plasticine moulds sent to him by his mother who at the time was living in the UK while Bob lived in Guyana with his grandmother. He added that he also used to make little brooches from coconut shells.


Bob Collymore Age
Bob Collymore was 61 years old at the time of his death; he was born in 1958.

Bob Collymore Nationality
Bob was a British national.

Bob Collymore Education
Bob attended Selhurst High School in the United Kingdom. He was later offered a place at Warwick University but had to turn this down as he was ineligible for funding.

He said in an interview that he once disliked not having gone to the university at some point but it no longer matters.

“I wanted to go to university and I disliked not having gone and for some years after I wished I’d gone. Now it doesn’t matter, [but] I would always advise a young person to go to the best university you can find.”

Bob Collymore Family
Bob was raised by his grandparents in Guyana and at the age of 16, he moved to the UK where his mother lived.

Bob Collymore Wife
Bob Collymore was married to Clare Wambui Kamiru. The two wedded in April 2016, at an invitation-only purple- and white-themed ceremony in Kitsuru, Nairobi. Wambui is the founder of The Art Space, which is an independent commercial art gallery situated on Riverside Drive in Nairobi.

Bob Collymore and his wife Wambui Kamiru
Bob Collymore and his wife Wambui Kamiru
Bob Collymore First Wife
There no details about Bob Collymore’s first wife but he once revealed during an interview that the first marriage was a mistake as he was very young – in his 20’s.

“The first marriage was a mistake for sure. I was too young — in my 20s.”

He also revealed that he got married for the second time and also divorced and unlike the first marriage, he said it wasn’t a mistake, but the mistake is how the marriage was conducted.

When asked during an interview with Daily Nation her revealed he had been married thrice and divorced twice;

“Three times! but divorced twice. Each time [I marry] it’s got better. Each time the match has been better. There are stuff I couldn’t have done better for sure. And is blame which I have to take.

Hopefully, I have learnt from some of it. What keeps me coming back? I think I never set out to remarry, I think I just meet someone who, we lived together for a while before we got married, so someone who you think I can spend the rest of my life with because we care for each other. The first marriage was a mistake for sure. I was too young — in my 20s. The second one was not a mistake, what was a mistake was how we conducted it.”


Bob Collymore Kids – Bob Collymore Children
Bob Collymore had four children; two a son and a daughter from his second marriage and was also a stepfather to his Wife’s, Wambui two sons.

Bob Collymore Net worth
In 2018 Bob declared that he was worth Sh277 Million, with a residential house in London worth Sh54 Million and Sh18.3 Million worth of shares at Safaricom.

Bob Collymore Career
Bob began his career as a junior underwriter and as a train announcer after he nissed the chance to join the University. He later held various management roles at British Telcom between January 1978 and July 1994. He later joined Cellnet in July 1994 as the handset strategy manager a position he held until July 1995.

Bob Collymore Safaricom
In September 2011 Bob Collymore was appointed as the CEO of Safaricom. During his stay in Safaricom, he oversaw the launch of new products that contributed significantly to the firm’s revenues such as newly launched overdraft facility Fuliza. The Safaricom’s share price also increased by more than 400 percent to Sh26.00.

He was the longest-serving CEO in Safaricom. In 2017 shareholders voted to extend his contract with an additional two years after his tenure expired. His term was to expire in August 2020.

Bob Collymore Cancer
In August 2018 Bob Collymore revealed that he was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), a rare blood cancer characterized by the rapid growth of abnormal cells in the bone marrow and which interferes with normal blood cells. He underwent treatment at University College London Hospitals (UCHL) in London, United Kingdom.

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