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o Develop an overarching, continental level, Digital Economy strategy where Digital and Technology are leveraged to create fulfilling and meaningful work for youth in Africa.o Establish and manage effective relationships with key external stakeholders and networks in the public, private, and non-profit sector promoting Digital Economy on the continent. o Cascade Pan African Program strategy into country and thematic program teams. o Build and lead a team of internal and external resources with deep expertise in Digital Economy.

NaiBAN is a network of founders, entrepreneurs, professionals and tech-enthusiasts that supports and invests in startups. The goal is to be entrepreneur-first investors that are supportive, responsive and respectful.

o Improve platform and products positioning across multiple geographies in Africa and Asia.o Build the right commercial models and pricing that drive scale with target customers.o Build a commercially viable value proposition for buyers on the digital agricultural platform.o Equip the sales team and customers with product knowledge to maximize sales and usage.o Incorporate feedback about products to ensure continuous improvement.

o Leverage on digital technology and innovate new business models to digitalize essential daily services. o Transform communities at the Base of the Pyramid through technology and innovation.o Drive inclusive economic growth across Africa and Asia.o Innovate around Community Pass. Community Pass is a social impact business that enables delivery of critical services to the undeserved, remote and frequently offline communities through a digital platform. Through this, service providers can more effectively provide education, humanitarian aid, micro-commerce, healthcare services and enable smallholder farmers with access to agricultural markets, and financial services.

o Inspire and lead the evolution of the digital & innovation strategy of the hub (Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda and Tanzania) while staying aligned with the overall group strategy.o Drive a sustainable digital transformation governance model enabling innovation, efficient deployment of initiatives and best practice sharing, knowledge transfer within the hub and across the affiliates.o Ensure digital initiatives alignment and coordination with local, regional and other affiliate teams.o Innovate on disease awareness and management of patients to improve health outcomes.o Improve access to information for healthcare professionals and access to medicines for patients.o Ensure deployment of meaningful tracking tools and systems to allow for monitoring & analysis.o Use of available data to support business strategy and better decision making. o Development and acceleration of innovative consumer oriented digital solutions.o Support and empower cross-functional teams in their digital transformation journey.o Build the right partnerships to support the digital & innovation strategy.o Interaction with local start-ups to map out potential opportunities.o Customer segmentation to ensure the right targeting strategies.Communications Lead. o Role extension. o Additional responsibility to coordinate all communication activities within the East Africa Hub.o Gain more visibility for Sanofi as a brand and what it does.

Nairobi, Kenya

Transition M-PESA from being a service into being a platform:o Manage the full products lifecycle and deliver M-PESA Products & Propositions.o Develop Products Innovation Funnel & Strategic Roadmap to deliver on the adoption & monetisation targets.o Analyse market needs and employ business analytics insights to identify opportunities for winning propositions.o Ensure transfer and sustenance of products knowledge among the support teams.o Partnership and ecosystem building through product and service innovation.o Customer Value Management based on data analysis and customer segments.

Nairobi, Kenya

Drive Innovation and Digital Strategies through:o Product research, prototyping, testing, piloting and coming up with product road maps.o Managing digital channels products through monitoring, reporting, executing improvements and innovations.o Collaborating with internal teams and external partners to achieve digital strategies and campaigns.o Leading in the development, management and implementation of digital channels projects. o Developing and implementing innovative digital initiatives that align with and advance business goals.o Customer engagement on products and ensuring exceptional customer experience.o Customer research and need based product development, and management.

Nairobi, Kenya

Dukalangu was an e-commerce startup launched in 2013 with its main focus being to drive social impact while giving local artisans access to global markets through web and mobile technologies.Awards: o Orange Social Venture Prize 2013 (Favorite Vote)o Best ICT Lifestyle Award 2013 - ICT gala Kenya @ 50Role: o Managing the core strategy functions of Dukalangu with a view of having a fully integrated, scalable, self-service platform.o Running operations, strategy, logistics and partnerships.

Nairobi, Kenya

Define, develop and implement innovative value added services, business plans and marketing strategies for Orange Money through:o Definition of strategies to deliver business objectives - enhanced subscriptions, increased usage, reduced churn and expansion of points of presence (distribution).o Coordination of cross-functional teams to drive services and offers, communicate value propositions and support Orange Money development life cycle.o Utilise project management methods and processes to execute projects and methods that constantly meet client needs and expectations.o Source, develop and maintain strategic partnerships that improve the Orange Money product portfolio.o Gather and analyse product and competition information through market research and intelligence.o Present and monitor Orange Money performance through the Orange Money dashboard.

Nairobi, Kenya

Constantly analyse and update customers’ needs, monitor competition activity, monitor new possible products or features based on new technical components or services proposed by vendors.Manage the products portfolio by: preparing end of product life, improve existing products with new features, offers, services, options, launch new product developments, manage and optimize products’ P&L, optimize costs with support of network operation, sourcing and finance team, optimise revenues by adopting right pricing structure and strategy so as to grow volumes and develop market share.Lead product improvement or new development by managing Time To Market (TTM) internal process, manage new features or product development projects following internal Time To Market (TTM) methodology.Establish and maintain good relationship with IT & Network to analyse actual product’s performances, possible improvements, new features or services. Establish and maintain good relationship with all other company’s departments too.Develop direct subordinate, strategy elaboration (including planning and procedures / policies): Plan product roadmap with pruning, introduction of new features / offers or development of new products. Financial Responsibilities: budget review, reporting and monitoring of product dashboard, manage product P&L with support of finance department.

Master In Business Administration (Mba), Strategic Management

Strategic Leadership In Inclusive Finance

Marries the best in strategic business thinking with the most important advances in financial inclusion and impact investing through: •.

Certificate In Digital Money, Digital Financial Services

Covers digital payments and digital financial services ecosystem and value chain. Gives a 360-degree view of digital payments. Provides.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc.), Electronics And Computer Engineering

Activities and Societies: Society of Engineering Students, Rotaract, BloodLink Foundation, HelpAge Kenya

Kcse, A-

Activities and Societies: St. John Ambulance, Sunday School, Hospital Visit, Old People's Visit, Dorm Captain, Ass. Medical Captain