At the start of 2018, having served as a board member for three years, I committed to actively get involved with The Transformational Business Network, a global movement of impact investors and entrepreneurs.TBN Africa has, since 2017, supported 694 early-stage entrepreneurs. Our interventions have helped the businesses create 5540 jobs, increase their aggregate revenues by USD 6.9M, and access over USD 20M of much needed debt, equity and mezzanine capital.Forty-nine percent of the total number of the enterprises we support are women-owned. This has been a deliberate effort on our part as we continue to be champions of women-owned and led businesses. And in Africa, which has the highest percentage of women entrepreneurs in the world, women reinvest up to 90 percent of their income in the education, health and nutrition of their families, and wider community. (Men only re- invest 40 percent).Helping these women-owned businesses to grow and scale by way of training, mentoring and providing access to capital and markets is therefore not just the right thing to do. It is, in fact, the profitable thing to do as borne by our own learnings and data: The Women-owned and led businesses in our fold created 4 percent more full-time jobs and contributed 55% of the total finance mobilized in 2023.In recognition of this, the African Development Bank, through its flagship program, AFAWA (Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa), retained TBN Africa to support 100 women-owned businesses in East Africa. AFAWA is a pan-African initiative to bridge the $42 billion financing gap facing women entrepreneurs in Africa. At the current snail pace, the World Economic Forum estimates a timeframe of 267.6 years for women to achieve economic parity.

Prime Pine Ventures is a Commercial forestry undertaking on a 200-hectare landholding. We have planted Pine (Pinus Carribaea - Australia) and Eucalyptus (Grandis). We employ 33 bottom-of-the-pyramid workers.

Intraline Shipping and Logistics, a mid-sized company, has own offices in Kenya (Mombasa and Nairobi), Uganda (Kampala, Entebbe Airport and Malaba) and Rwanda (Kigali). We have representation at every major airport and seaport worldwide. We serve the whole Eastern Africa and the Great Lakes Region, including Burundi and the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (Goma, Bukavu, etc). We handle shipments to South Sudan and the horn of Africa - Somalia/Somaliland. Also, we are the leading Reefer Cargo logistics provider in Uganda. Prior to founding Intraline Shipping and Logistics in 2005, I worked in key positions with the world leaders in this industry. These include; Maersk, Mediterranean Shipping Company(MSC), SDV (Bollore Group) and Interfreight Panalpina.