• Co-founder and director of BudHa Investments, a strategic investment & management firm; acquiring & developing companies• Analysed strategic partnership opportunities in manufacturing, ICT, brand development and emerging service sectors• Advised across multiple business functions to engender growth• Sourced supply and investment partners, attracted investment and pooled resources to add value and synergies• Developed & promoted agent representation services to international strategic resource manufacturers• Monitored firms’ performance; implementing plans to boost profitability above market sector growth rates• Equity Participation in Ramara Limited and Bluvea Limited as shareholder & co-executive director, revising strategy & mentoring leaders• Led across strategic direction, marketing and promotions and networked at top level to develop strategic alliances• Directed finance, accounting, budgets, operations, cost/quality control, HR and regulatory compliance at top-level• Built an influential and coveted client portfolio, based on UVP branding• Negotiated contracts with HNW and corporate clients including leading hotels, businesses and airlines• Led management teams to exceed sales targets whilst upholding the company’s ethos of ethics and integrity• Jointly developed the company from scratch into a successful, internationally recognised, multi-award-winning firm

• Led RAA to become a highly successful FMCG import, distribution & brand development firm as founder & director• Managed a portfolio of 30 companies encompassing 200 brands with in excess of 2000 stock keeping units• Designed business processes, functions, procedures and a highly successful sales system; achieving rapid growth• Personally built mutually beneficial long term relations with principal suppliers globally• Key player in the high impact launch and rollout across Africa of leading brands including a well-known skin cream• Grew sales and profitability exponentially, year on year, exceeding industry norms

• Excelled across sales, marketing, strategic and business roles for the family business group in Kenya• Highly instrumental in creating and marketing the highly recognisable and trusted insecticide brand in the country, exceeding all goals• Personally established long-term contracts with multinationals; contributing to successful sustainable growth