Bitange Ndemo
Prior to this appointment as Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Information and Communication, Dr. Ndemo was a senior Lecturer at the University of Nairobi’s Business School. He taught Entrepreneurship, Management and Research Methods. Most of his research activities centers on Small and Medium Enterprises in Kenya with Emphasis on Social Enterprise. Dr. Ndemo holds a PhD in Industrial Economics from the University of Shieffied UK, and MBA and a Bachelors in Finance and Accounting from the University of Minnesota. In the early 1990′s, Dr. Ndemo was a Financial Systems Analyst with...
read moreDr. James Mwangi
Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director James holds four Honorary doctorate degrees in recognition of his contributions to the Kenyan society. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree and is a Certified Public Accountant. James has been honored twice with Presidential national awards. He is currently the Chairman of Kenya’s Vision 2030 Delivery Board charged with the responsibility of ensuring Kenya becomes a middle income country with global high standards of living by the year 2030. James serves on several international bodies as an adviser and sits on the Board of the Africa...
read moreRobert Ngeru
Robert Ngeru is the Commercial Director for East and Central Africa, a position he assumed in February 2010. Given the importance of this part of Africa for Samsung, Robert has an important role in ensuring that Samsung’s trade and marketing activities are viable and impactful in the region. Before joining the Samsung team, Robert was the Mobile Communications Business Manager at Microsoft from 2009 – 2010. Prior to this he worked for 4 years as the Regional Manager at Motorola having come from various positions at Allegis and Two Way Communications Ltd. Robert brings a wealth of...
read moreNiti Bhan
Niti Bhan integrates her multidisciplinary background in business, design and engineering with a global perspective to offer unique insights and directions for successfully entering the challenging markets of the developing world. She has taught the Stanford Global Design program as well as at the Aalto University School of Art and Design. She brings over 20 years’ experience on three continents to her work and her insights have been included in the curriculum of the UK Open University’s degree program on Creativity in the 21st Century as well as published online and in print. Her...
read moreDr. Patricia King’ori
Dr. Patricia King’ori joined Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd in Aug 2008 as the General Manager in charge of Mobile Devices in East & Central Africa, having worked in the mobile industry for 5 years. She was previously the Country Manager of one of the largest Nokia Distributors in East Africa, where she helped set up and run the company. She comes with a vast experience of handset devices with different operating...
read moreSimon de Haan, Chief Engineer: Praekelt Foundation
Growing up in the Middle East left an indelible impression on Simon and sparked a passionate interest in community development, entrepreneurship and technology. After completing a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Media Technology in the Netherlands Simon worked for several prominent digital agencies before being appointed CTO of a promising internet startup in Amsterdam. The potential to be directly involved in the use of technology to improve the lives of the less privileged proved irresistible, however, and Simon moved to South Africa to focus on community development work in...
read moreOlav Lund Nilsen
Olav Lund Nilsen is a senior consultant with the Norwegian based consulting firm Miles AS. Olav has a degree in applied physics and has more than 10 years experience in IT consulting. He has also founded a online retail store for the Norwegian market and was an early adopter of Cloud services. Olav is currently based in Nairobi and is doing consulting for Northern-European telecom companies. He has over the last years been focusing on Enterprise Architecture and Agile development...
read moreJohn Staley
Director of Mobile Banking and Payment Innovations John has a Masters of Science in Applied and Computational Mathematics and a Bachelor of Science in Physics. He also holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree and is a qualified Chartered Accountant. A specialist in implementing cost effective ICT solutions, John worked as the CEO of Credit Indemnity (Pty) Ltd in South Africa before joining Equity...
read moreFranco Papeschi
Franco joined the Web Foundation in January 2011, working on the Mobile Innovation Labs initiative. Franco is currently following projects in Kenya (with the mLab East africa), Ghana and Senegal – in order to make the labs community catalysts, training centres and incubation hotspots. Prior to joining the Foundation, Franco worked as User Experience manager in Vodafone Group, taking a human-centered approach to envision innovative and meaningful services. Franco has 8 years of experience leading projects on the design of web sites and applications, mobile services, IPTV, change and...
read morePaul Kukubo
Paul Kukubo is the Chief Executive Officer of the Kenya Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Board. The Kenya ICT Board is the Kenyan State Corporation in charge of the development and the marketing of Kenya as an ICT investment destination. The Kenya ICT Board is an organization with strong influence over the Kenyan ICT sector including the outsourcing, the content development, development of e-government, digital inclusion programs, amongst others. From a base of a few thousand today, Kenya aims to create over 100,000 jobs in IT enabled services including outsourcing by...
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Pivot25 is an mlab initiative to bring focus on the Mobile developer and entrepreneur community in East Africa.