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Bolt, Europe's first mobility super-app, is on a mission is to make cities for people by offering better and sustainable alternatives for every purpose a private car/motorbike serves — including ride-hailing, shared cars, scooters, and food and grocery delivery.As Bolt's East Africa's Regional Manager, I was part of the global executive leadership team and was responsible for the commercial, people, and operational success of the ride-hailing vertical.Some of achievements in this role include:● Established and motivated an exceptional leadership and operational team in East Africa. ● Liaised with government stakeholders and influenced sustainable policy outcomes for the nascent industry.● Led investment planning and regulatory readiness for expansion into +15 new cities and +3 new products. ● Formulated bold 360 corporate and business strategies, inspired buy-in, and oversaw the cross-functional collaborative implementation that achieved:o Geographic and product-offering expansion that grew market share from under 20% to +50% across East Africa.o Multiplied gross merchandise value (GMV) run-rate from a few thousand USD to several dozen million USD.o Increased monthly riders and trips by over 15x. Improved driver retention from under 70% to +95%.● Transformed regional P&L from loss to strong positive EBITDA margins, while growing faster than the organic market rate.● Developed a framework for structured analysis of the marketplace to define an ROI-based Product Development Roadmap.● Structured, negotiated, and rolled out a partnerships ecosystem that positively improved the economic welfare of several dozen thousand drivers by lowering their direct costs by +12%. ● Led climate positive initiatives. These included the launch of electric mobility options on the platform (Bolt Green) and environmental initiatives such as planting 11M seed balls which received Presidential recognition among other initiatives by responsible public & private sector actors.

Fostered team professional development, inspired mission alignment, and promoted accountable execution discipline. Expanded the business across emerging market cities and localized product offerings. Cultivated analytical mindset for operational efficiency across all business processes. Harnessed business intelligence tools for insightful strategy extraction. Other notable achievements included:● Improved same-month revenue collection by +33% by leveraging insights from platform analysis to lower debt ceiling.● Collaborated with Treasury and Commerce teams to identify, negotiate and deploy a regional payment processing platform that helped to offer bespoke, localized, and affordable payment options for drivers, cutting payment processing costs by +40% and sealed revenue leakage.● Championed the innovation of the Early Cash-out feature that offered drivers access to credit amounts on their Bolt account to fund working capital needs on-demand instead of waiting for the weekly payments cycle increasing the retention rate by +30%.

M+R Spedag Group is a family-owned transportation and logistics company headquartered in Switzerland, with over 82 branches and delegations across various sea and inland port cities. I worked with the Eastern Africa regional team headquartered in Mombasa, KE. My role and achievements included the following:● Conducted insightful analysis of Group level performance for Board presentation to facilitate strategic firm-wide decisions.● Guided regional finance teams on best practice financial reporting in accordance with IFRS, IAS, emerging regulatory requirements, and commercial best-in-class practices.● Monitored adherence to tax and other statutory requirements across the Group in Eastern Africa. ● Analyzed P&L to optimize operations in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, and South Sudan markets.● Developed dashboards to present impactful overviews of the group's performance, showcasing strategy wins and focus areas.● Scrutinized and refined operational procedures of regional finance departments by consolidating inputs from across other functions, exploring innovative approaches, and integrating them into policies and guidance memos.

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited is a British multinational professional services network headquartered in London, England. Deloitte is a leading global provider of audit and assurance, consulting, financial advisory, risk advisory, tax, and related services. I was a key resource in the Public Sector Audit team and had the following responsibilities and achievements:● Managed a portfolio of client relationships and contributed to professional services cross-pollination business development.● Evaluated engagement risks, planned, and executed organizational financial audits, expenditure verification, and agreed-upon procedures.● Administered engagement teams to ensure efficient client service delivery with high-quality advice output.● Complied with International Standards of Auditing (ISAs), International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs), and other regulatory and donor (e.g., USAID, UKAID, DANIDA, SIDA, World Vision, among others) requirements while reporting comprehensively on the above.● Communicated statutory compliance findings, program sustainability, internal control weaknesses, and other value-adding findings to donors and clients' senior management. Ensured that the value delivered enriches the client’s strategy and that impact was beyond a statutory or programmatic tick-box exercise.● Conducted statutory audits for over 15 social impact, not-for-profit development organizations.● Provided best-in-class recommendations to management boards on corporate governance, treasury optimization, and more.● Contributed to statutory and grant terms compliance. OPEX savings of over 10% yearly through recommended optimizations.

I also worked within the Corporate Finance team and my role included:● Proactively researched macro/micro-economic trends and conducted immersive sectoral/industry viability analysis and shared these as opinion pieces and briefs to guide investors in evaluating investment vehicles and best-yielding capital deployment opportunities. I generated a pipeline of viable investment leads and built and maintained strong relationships throughout the investment lifecycle.● Built robust financial models that yielded logic-backed project feasibility evaluation and/or entire business valuations that guided buy-side or sell-side negotiations. This financial acumen and deep understanding of financial modeling were instrumental in helping clients secure equity or debt funding and offering insights to drive scenario-based business growth.● Performed thorough and timely investment target screening and conducted financial and operational due diligence assessments and reported insights and recommendations to equity/debt stakeholders to inform capital deployment decisions. I was an instrumental team player during market, customer, competition, product fit assessments, profiling management team strengths and development areas, and reviewing exit timings and strategies.● Carried out portfolio management through follow-up on monthly and quarterly financial statements and preparing reports to various fund shareholders.● Gained a wealth of exposure and experience in transaction advisory, capital raising, investment appraisal, financial and market analysis, financial modeling, business valuations, business advisory, and consulting.

PwC's Public Sector Consulting managed a portfolio of grants from USAID, DFID, World Vision, and the World Bank among other international development agencies and NGOs. I was a Grant Management Consultant under the World Bank USD +80M Total War Against HIV and AIDS (TOWA) Project in Kenya that funded non-governmental and community-based organizations in Kenya to fight the spread of HIV/AIDs as well as mitigate the social-economic impact of the scourge. I was actively engaged from the initial stages of the program with the Fund Manager (PwC Kenya Ltd) and was involved in setting up offices and finding innovative solutions to the pioneer program. I held the following responsibilities:● Conducted pre-grant financial and operational due diligence assessments, developed program training on the identified capacity gaps in the management teams,● Approved tiered grant disbursements and thereafter prepared financial and technical reports post-audit, engaged in period monitoring and evaluation field visits.● Participated in donor, local government roundtables and liaised with a wide range of senior stakeholders throughout the implementation of the program and contributed valuable inputs to the structure of the Program.