Eliud is a global development and technology enthusiast, and an SME champion with over 6 years of extensive experience working with development organizations and innovation hubs to design programmes and services that provide marginalised groups with Knowledge, Access and Choice! He is driven by a strong passion for innovation and design and a firm belief in the power of entrepreneurship and technology as approaches to development. With a background in Financial Engineering, Eliud believes economic empowerment begins with Financial Inclusion. He therefore endeavors to thoughtfully co-design and responsibly deliver products that include disenfranchised groups into global commerce and finance systems while ensuring they have the appropriate capacity and technology to access them. He works as a design researcher consultant helping leaders to co-design change with system users and stakeholders using the Human Centered Design and Systems Thinking approaches. He also serves as the Ye! Advisor to the International Trade Centre for Kenya where he builds a community to support young entrepreneurs in Kenya. Eliud co-founded Innobid Procurement - a civic tech startup leveraging AI and ML to enable traditionally excluded women and youth-owned SMEs to access global commerce and procurement opportunities through process simplification, providing relevant information and fostering transparency.Previously, Eliud designed and implemented SBC programs linked to the global SDGs at Unilever's Heroes for Change and led digitalization and data strategy for MSMEs at Centafrique Consulting. These work experiences have helped Eliud sharpen his technical expertise in innovation and design and develop key people skills in leadership, collaboration, storytelling, and networking. He has also gained invaluable experience working with governments, business community, academia, civil society, funders, and local communities.Eliud holds a BSc Degree in Financial Engineering and is currently pursuing a Mastering Service Design Course from the Service Design College. He is a winner of the Accountability Lab's inaugural HackCorruption Hackathon held in South Africa in 2022. Eliud has been recognised by the UN Office of the Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth as a Youth Leader for his work of promoting social innovation for the Youth in Africa, the National Democratic Institute as a young democracy game changer and the International Trade Center and the Accountability Lab for leveraging technology for good.