Tabitha Karanja, full name Tabitha Mukami Muigai Karanja, is the Nakuru senator and a Kenyan businesswoman and entrepreneur. Tabitha is the founder and current CEO of Keroche Breweries, Kenya's largest non-multinational brewery. According to October 2012 statistics, Keroche accounts for 20% of beer consumption in Kenya.
She was born in Kijabe, central Kenya, and after attending Kenyan schools, she worked as an Accounting Clerk for the Ministry of Tourism. In Naivasha, she met and married her husband, who owned a successful hardware store. In 1997, the couple closed the hardware store and began making wine.