Career Path With National Oil General Manager Alex Magu Alex Magu is the General Manager, Finance, Trade, and Treasury at National Oil Corporation of Kenya. With over 20 years of experience in Financial and Treasury management, Mr Magu has held various senior positions in the financial sector including Chief Transformation Officer at Family Bank, Founder – Credit Sawa Limited, and the Head of Finance at Kenya Orient Insurance Limited. The 45-year-old shared his career-path with Sunday Nation. “I am the eldest of three children and I took after my dad who was a Chief Accountant for over 20 years until his retirement. My mum was a Theatre Nurse. We were raised in a peri-rural setting though I went to a day school in Nairobi, a 30 minutes’ drive from where we lived.