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Rabat Prefecture, Morocco

Nairobi

Kenya

Wefarm is a free peer-to-peer service that enables farmers to share information via SMS, without the internet and without having to leave their farm. Farmers can ask questions on farming and receive crowd-sourced answers from other farmers around the world in minutes.Main accountable for establishing the company’s strategy as well as supervising daily activities; including sales, product/services development and managing customer relationships. ✦Responsibilities: ➜Ensure operations’ alignment with the organization’s mission, strategic objectives, and policies.➜Monitor key business KPIs including revenue, new client acquisition, and prospect conversion/sales targets while ensuring compliance with regulatory obligations and internal governance policies.➜Manage key relationships, communicate, on behalf of the company, with shareholders, government entities, and the public.➜Maintain constant awareness of both the external and internal competitive landscape, opportunities for expansion, customer base, markets and new industry developments as well as standards.➜Responsible for building the company’s brand; devising advertising and promotional plans, product positioning and global brand marketing development.

Mountain View, California

The Global Solutions Program brings together dreamers and inspired solvers with unique skill sets, experiences, and passions, and empowers them to develop moonshot innovations addressing humanity’s grand challenges by leveraging exponential technology and entrepreneurial tools.

MFarm is an app that helps smallholder farmers trapped in subsistence agriculture move into commercial farming by leveraging available mobile technology to provide needed real-time information and make informed decisions, resulting in improved farm productivity and access to the market.☞ My role:➜As Founder and CEO, I led the company’s set-up, defined strategy, tactical plans, business scope and value proposition. I oversaw all business activities ensuring targets were achieved, maintaining consistency with the overall mission. I was accountable for shaping the organization's culture, empowering leaders, recruiting talent, building high-performance teams and managing key relations with partners & stakeholders.➜Strategic planning & Financial management: Ensured financial viability and leadership of the organization, reporting on progress and targets met on the board as well as fundraising and resource mobilization.➜Business Acumen: Supported with my experience in software engineering. I worked closely with the engineering team; back-end, front-end and user experience/interface designers.➜Project Management: Oversaw the development, schedules, and execution of new features and/or versions of the MFarm platform.

Akirachix is and organization dedicated to nurturing generations of women who use tech to develop innovations and solutions for Africa.Mentor, trainer, and business development manager at Akirachix; an all girls’ organization that aims to inspire and develop a successful force of women in technology who will change Africa’s future.✦Responsibilities:➜Responsible for mentoring on how to build successful customer relationships, negotiate and close business deals with the objective of growing business and increasing market share position.➜Provided customers and team under supervision with strategy, solution advice, and support during pre-sales discussions.➜Identified business opportunities, by performing research of industries and companies, targeting the right potential customers

Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) is a State Corporation established through the Science and Technology (Amendment) Act of 1979, which has since been amended to Science, Technology and Innovation Act 2013. KEMRI is a National body responsible for carrying out health research in Kenya.Main responsible for building a web-based Medical Record System using the .NET platform especially VB.NET and ASP.NET as well as maintaining the existing database.✦Responsibilities:➜Supported with the planning, designing, and development of system enhancements.➜Provided internal customer support by helping troubleshoot of applications.➜Performed follow through of standard policies and procedures defined, guaranteeing successful project implementation.★ Main initiatives:➜Implemented OpenMRS an open source Medical Record System.