Each of our properties are owned and run by Kenyans with over 80 years of experience in wildlife management, safaris, farming and hospitality. Their pioneering spirit lives on today in each of their unique creations, and they welcome all our guests to share with them the stories, mishaps, successes and adventures that they have had over the years.

Michael and Nicky have lived on Borana since 1984. In those days the property was very intensively ranched with livestock and cattle, merino sheep and angora goats, a place where wildlife took second place. They immediately changed the management policy to a more holistic approach that has seen Borana become a wildlife refuge.

Both Andy and Caragh have long a long family history of life in Kenya, and today they live on Kenya's north coast running Manda Bay. Caragh met Andy whilst he was farming in the Mara with his brother Willy. Her mother was guiding horseback safaris at the time and based her horses on Willy's farm. There began a life together which has seen them based on Borana Ranch, Uganda and now the coast.

Fuzz and Bimbi managed Borana Lodge near Mount Kenya for five years. The lodge, situated on a large ranch, offered riding safaris and fantastic game viewing. Fuzz has been a keen conservationist all his life and has enormous experience in this field. Bimbi is a trained chef having worked in restaurants in London. She is a keen watersports enthusiast, and does a lot of waterskiing and wake-boarding instruction at Manda.

Willie & Sue's son Richard Roberts was born in Kenya and raised in the Masai Mara from the age of 3. Richard's Camp itself was originally built as the Robert's family home by Richard's parents who were also instrumental in bringing together the Masai communities and forming the wildlife conservation association that exists in this area today. Today the camp is owned and run by Richard and his partner, Liz Fusco.

Loyapan Lemarti and Anna Trzebinski met on safari in Northern Kenya. They fell in love in the enchanted tribal lands of the north, Lemarti's homeland, and were later married under the shade of enormous sacred fig trees. It was here that they decided to build their dream camp, on the banks of the Ewaso Nyiro river.

Jay is nephew to Willie, Andy and Jamie Roberts, and has the natural Roberts tendancy for ensuring all his guests have a fun and entertaining time at Hogmead, where he is General Manager.

Jamie Roberts owns Tropic Air based out of Nanyuki, and he flies guests between the exceptional destinations in the SCC Kenya portfolio. Only by flying low across this physically diverse wilderness can one truly appreciate the scale of Kenya's beauty and solitude, and Jamie is the expert to go with.

Ben was one of Tropic Air's founding fixed-wing pilots and has developed an intimate knowledge of the region from his experiences in Kenya, Sudan, Tanzania, Somalia, Ethiopia, Uganda and The Congo. He was instrumental in establishing the company's helicopter division.

Willie was born in Kenya and grew up with his six siblings at Lake Baringo, a remote and beautiful part of the Rift Valley. His father David died tragically when Willie was 13. The family were faced with the prospect of leaving Kenya, but Willie was determined that this was not going to happen. After repeatedly running away from boarding school in protest, his mother Betty agreed to stay and that was the beginning of a truly adventurous life.

Caroline, Willie & Sue's daughter, has built a small ten-bed lodge with her husband Ross Withey on Samatian Island, Lake Baringo in the Rift Valley in south-west Kenya. This six room private island lodge is owned and hosted by Caroline and Ross and their two little boys. Caroline has always lived in unusual, out-of-the-way places: whilst growing up, she lived on Samatian Island and in the Masai Mara, her parents being great adventurers and pioneers of new areas for tourism ventures.