Who we are
Jessica Pattison
Operations Manager
Jessica has worked in the luxury travel industry for 10 years. After an extensive stint in London marketing for the likes of Abercrombie & Kent and Scott Dunn, she moved to Kenya with her husband Giles in 2009. They have been running Giraffe Manor for the past 18 months and live on site with their son Thomas. Jessica is in charge of running The Safari Collection.
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Olivia Meggy
Marketing Manager
Olivia was born and grew up in Guernsey in the Channel Islands. She studied at the University of Bath and spent her placement year working in Australia at the University of Melbourne and The University of Sydney. After completing her degree, she spent four years in London working for JPMorgan Asset Management. Having visited Kenya for the first time when she was fifteen on a horse riding safari, she returned to join her sister here and is responsible for marketing The Safari Collection.
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Beatrice Musomba
Reservations Manager
Beatrice has handled Giraffe Manor reservations for the last 5 years and has since been promoted to Reservations Manager at the end of last year. Her favorite giraffe is Lynn because she can pick her out easily from the other eight resident Rothschild Giraffe.
In between handling reservation, Beatrice is a wife, a busy mother of two lovely girls, both of whom have come to love giraffe.
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Litsa Ann Shewan
Payments and accounts
After several years working in the Corporate Telecom Business arena as a Corporate Sales Manager and later Corporate Relationship Manager, Litsa has recently joined the Safari Collection on a part-time basis.
Litsa currently deals with the The Safari Collection payments system. She has a special fondness for giraffes and is an enthusiastic Kenya bush traveler along with her young family and camera in tow.
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Benjamin Murwayi
Tours and reservations
Benjamin has over 9 years experience in tour costing and itinerary planning in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania (East Africa) among other destinations. He has worked previously with well known tour operators such as Southern Cross Safaris - Mombasa, Gamewatchers and Express Travel UN Branch.
He enjoys seeing his clients happy after a successful safari and hopes to take The Safari Collection tours department to the next level. He is a very social person who enjoys traveling and spending time with his family.
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Alice Mmbasu
Sasaab, Sala's Camp and Solio Lodge reservations
Alice graduated from the The Nairobi Institute of Business Studies last year and joined The Safari Collection. She is responsible for Sasaab, Sala’s Camp and Solio Lodge reservations.
She has come to adore the giraffe at Giraffe Manor which helps due to their close proximity every day at work. Her favourite part of the job is speaking to clients and making new friends.
Apart from the busy office scheduled she is a wife to a musician and enjoys watching him live in concert.
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Wairimu Alice
Giraffe Manor reservations
Wairimu has worked in the travel industry for 8 years. After completing her Tourism and Wildlife Management course, she started working at Kuki Gallman’s Ranch heading the Education Centre. She then moved to Campi ya Kanzi, Anna Trezebinski’s Lemartis Camp and The Safari and Conservation Company.
At The Safari Collection she is in charge of Giraffe Manor bookings and ‘enjoys every moment of it!’ After work Wairimu enjoys building her own businesses after work.
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Mary Migot
Office administrator
Mary graduated from the East African School of Media Studies in 2009. Since then she worked as a filming editor for New People Magazine and was involved in the reporting for Radio and TV Lira Uganda.
She joined The Safari Collection in 2011 and is responsible for office administration and support for the reservations team. Outside of work she enjoys walking in the outdoors, gospel music and dancing.
