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Nairobi County, Kenya

Nairobi, Kenya

• GridX Africa develops and finances solar and energy storage solutions for businesses throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. We deliver cleaner, lower cost, and more reliable power to our clients.
• Project development: driving forward development activities for commercial & industrial solar energy projects, encompassing commercial, technical, legal, environmental, and regulatory aspects, with a primary focus on.
• Project finance: actively involved in project- and portfolio-level financial modelling and corporate-level fundraising.
• Business development: sourcing new client leads, advancing existing project opportunities, and facilitating market expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Nairobi, Kenya

• Investing in early-stage companies developing innovative business models in Sub-Saharan Africa that are digitised, decentralised, and decarbonised.
• Responsible for the ‘Beyond Access Partnership’ with USAID and FMO that seeks to mobilise private sector capital and support for early-stage digital connectivity companies in Africa.

Utrecht, Netherlands

• Building and managing commercial relationships with globally operating energy traders and originating new (sustainable) opportunities.
• Developing a strategic view on clients, their sectors, and the energy transition, and translating this into engaging account plans.
• Coordinating client relationships across different locations and initiating dialogues to enhance cross-sell.
• Responsible for structuring and managing a broad range of short to medium term facilities.

Utrecht, Netherlands

Utrecht, Netherlands

• Credit analysis: performed various in-depth analyses on commodity traders across the agri, metals, and energy sectors.
• Mid-office: managed daily operations and collateral, and successfully initiated process improvements.

Utrecht, Netherlands / New York, US

• Assignment 1 – Credit Portfolio Management: supported a new balance sheet optimisation team on group level to improve diversification, returns on risk weighted assets and regulatory ratios.
• Assignment 2 – Trade & Commodity Finance Energy: assisted with day-to-day maintenance of client relationships (based in New York, US).
• Assignment 3 – Digital Bank/Rabo Identity Services (former Rabo eBusiness): responsible for sales, business development, adoption, and implementation of identity-based solutions in a corporate start-up launched.

Netherlands

• Completed a leadership programme focused on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Project on SDG 14 – ‘Life Below Water’ with the aim to build an impactful and innovative platform that enables transparent and.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

• Follow-up to internship: Involved in the entire process of M&A transactions, responsible for long- and short lists, analysed financial data, prepared valuation models and information memorandums, set up data rooms as.

Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

• Involved in the entire process of M&A transactions, responsible for long- and short lists, analysed financial data, prepared valuation models and information memorandums, set up data rooms as part of due diligence, and.

Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

• Representative of Rotterdam School of Management and Erasmus University at +75 high schools in the Netherlands. Provided (potential) students and their parents with in-depth information about the bachelor programme(s).

Master Of Science (Msc), Business Information Management, Gpa 8.2

• Core courses: Information Strategy, Big Data Management & Analytics, Designing Business Applications, Business Architecture &.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Business Administration, Gpa 8.0

• Thesis: Stock market reactions to new product announcements. • Invited for Erasmus Honours Programme 2013. • Associations: Rotterdamsch.

International Bachelor Exchange / Erasmus Exchange Programme

• Courses: Business Economics, Macroeconomic Policy, Emerging & Transitional Economies, B2B Marketing & Relationship Management.

Pre-University Education (Vwo - Economics & Society), Gpa 7.0

• Bilingual education: successfully obtained the International Baccalaureate certificate.