Dr. Richard Kamau is an Independent and Non-Executive Director and the Chairman of the Clinical Governance Research and Standard Board Committee. He is also a member of the KNH Board of Trustees DC Scheme.

An established healthcare entrepreneur, Dr. Kamau is a trained and experienced corporate governance practitioner, (Commonwealth Association of Corporate Governance, (CACG, 2004) and Centre for Corporate Governance (CCG, 2015). He is a trained and Certified Pension Scheme Trustee (College of Insurance of Kenya and Humbur University of Canada).  

Dr. Kamau has over the years consulted in various committees on reforms in the pharmaceutical sector in Kenya and has served as Lead Consultant in World Bank Funded Projects and played a key consultancy role in the introduction of ARVs (2004) in the public and mission hospitals in Kenya.

He has in the past served as a Board Director of Kenya Medical Supplies Agency (KEMSA) and as Board Chairman of Ruiru and Juja Water and Sewerage Company (RUJWASCO).

Dr. Kamau is a member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Kenya (PSK), Institute of Directors (IOD) of Kenya, and Society for Quality Healthcare of Kenya