Paul Mandele Email & Phone Number

Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

Tanzania

Duties- Spearheading growth strategies for the studio and its portfolio, driving measurable impact- Advocating corporate venture building as a high-value service, enabling companies to innovate and scale- Leading fund-raising efforts for both the studio and its portfolio ventures- Overseeing venture development from ideation through to market success- Managing and nurturing a diverse portfolio of startups within the studio- Establishing and cultivating strategic partnerships that fuel the studio’s mission and portfolio growthSuccesses- Raised 80,000 in grants from the U.S Embassy in Tanzania to help speed up customer acquisition for one portfolio startup

Tanzania

Managing company's portfolio of digital products from conception to product in market.- Worked with the team to review M-Paper brand identity and product values to improve customer retention in margin enhancing ways and scale beyond Tanzania- Managing the M-Paper transition to Rifaly- Scaling Rifaly in East Africa and beyond- Custodian of the product strategy and roadmap- Managing the product engineering process and team- Managing the development of local adNetwork- Managing the engineering team- Custodian of the product strategy and roadmap

Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

Member of the general church board. Responsible for:- Digital media outreach strategies- ICT systems and infrastructures- Youth excellence initiatives- Investments

Tanzania

Member of the board that identifies, advises and guides City Harvest Church on its investments.- Championing the establishment of an international school in Bahari beach - Dar es salaam.- Championing the establishment of CH Excellence Lab- Co-created and implementing a strategy for the construction and operation of a six-storey investment property.- Co-created and implementing a strategy for purchasing and operating of a 13 acres investment plot in Dodoma City centre.

Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

2020 Inclusivity bootcamp Mentor, Impact Hub, Tanzania2019 Facilitator, WFP Innovation Accelerator - Germany & Tanzania.2019 User-centred Design & prototyping Facilitator, Amua accelerator - Tanzania.2019 User-centred Design & prototyping Mentor, Lishe accelerator - Tanzania.2019 Business development Mentor, Tujenge TZ Innovation challenge - Tanzania.2018 Tanzania Tech Lead, Wazi Hub IoT accelerator - Tanzania.2018 Tanzania Tech Lead, MasterCard Foundation's Agri Youth Lab - Tanzania.2017 Innovation Consultant, Palladium Group - Tanzania.2017 Technical Mentor, Amua Accelerator - Tanzania.2016 Innovation Consultant, Niras Finland OY - Tanzania.

Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

Sahara Sparks Events LTD is a corporate events management company, the company is behind Sahara Sparks the largest East and Central Africa event on Innovation and Technology Entrepreneurship. The event promotes an avenue for discussion on global trending technology and supports early-stage companies by providing them a platform to pitch and exhibit their businesses to access investors and partners.- Organizing tech-centric pre-events such as hackathons, tech talks.- Scouting for renowned tech heads to speak at the event.- Working on tech partnerships.- Working on general event logistics.

Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

- Championing the establishment of the company in East Africa- Leading local operations

Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

Vodacom Innovation Hub is a venture building initiative by Vodacom Tanzania in partnership with Smart Codes Tanzania. The hub was established to design, develop and manage Value Added Services products for Vodacom Tanzania.Roles:- Managing products stakeholders - Leading UX research and development- Preparing and managing the hub's products strategies- Leading products agile teams- Preparing and managing products roadmaps- Prioritising product features- Crafting and prioritizing user stories

Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

Member of the ICT Skills Council part of the six inaugural National Sector skills councils an initiative by Tanzania Private Sector Foundation (TPSF) and The Tanzania Ministry of Education, Science and Technology currently under The World bank Education and Skills for Productive Jobs (ESPJ) project.The aim of the project is to strengthen the institutional capacity of the skills development system and promote the expansion and quality of skills development opportunities in select economic sectors.Role of Members is to identify gaps, prioritize and advise the government and stakeholders on steps to take to fix identified gaps, strengthen institutional capacity and promote the expansion and quality of skills development. On my case in ICT Sector.

Dar Es Salaam

Buni Hub is the first Innovation space to be established in Tanzania, which exists to foster innovation and technology entrepreneurship through capacity building, mentoring programs and community empowerment. Raised more than $230k USD for different hub programs.Other activities- Program manager for Tanzania-South Africa bilateral ICT programme from Tanzania side.- Tanzania technical team lead for the $13USD million Ag-youth hub project.- Supporting the partnerships lead in identifying and forging partnerships with key stakeholders in the innovation ecosystem.-Coaching and Mentoring startups-Facilitating training sessions geared to support the establishment of new innovation hubs.-Forged partnerships and working relationships with Andela, Wikimedia, WFP.-Co-created the Connected Hubs a collaborative initiative by sub-Saharan hubs under Southern Africa Innovation Support Programme.

Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

-Managed the fabrication lab.-Providing technical mentorship to startups.-Managed the hub inventory.-Managed the hub community registration systems.-Production of technology boot camps and hackathons.

Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

-Interviewed 260+ applicants.-Groomed 15+ startups from the program.-Planned for all the program events, activities, logistics and human resource.-Facilitated user center design, team formation and product development sessions for the teams.-Managed facilitators and mentors both internal and external.-Mentoring tech startups arising from the program.-Guided the participants on how to make the best use of the programme for their future career.-Recruited more than 110 community members through the programme.More that 70% of the graduates of the programme have either gone to start their own startups and hold key positions in key companies in Tanzania and beyond.

Dar Es Salaam - Tanzania

Over the next 25 years, Africa’s working-age population will double to one billion, exceeding that of China and India. In the meantime, the digital skills gap is widening: while coding has the power to put millions of young Africans on the path to successful careers and empower them to build sustainable growth, companies in Africa are currently struggling to hire enough qualified IT talent. So the question is not whether a full life cycle of skills support for young people in Africa needs to be created, but when. Africa Code Week says: NOW.-Recruited and organized training for 104 teachers on using Scratch to teach coding to children.-Impacted 600+ primary and secondary schools children with Scratch coding education.

Dar Es Salaam

ReFab Dar is a pilot program to explore how plastic waste can power entrepreneurship using 3D printers in Tanzania.- Organized 3D modelling & 3D printing workshops.- Facilitated 3D printing workshops.- Facilitated venture building training to individuals aspiring to build ventures around 3D printing

Dar Es Salaam

Worked as a software developer to sustain myself while building Prinpo before Prinpo raised a pre-seed fund.

- Built 3D printers from electronic waste.- Manufactured custom visual learning models for schools using 3D printers- Rapid prototyping of medical tools and consumables like forceps, surgical guides,splints and prosthetics.Raised pre-seed fund from the TANZICT Innovation Fund

Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

Attended problem-based learning internship focused on venture building. Modules covered:- Ideation- Team formation- Design thinking- Market survey and customer profiling- Pitching- Prototyping- Business models generationUse case: Additive manufacturing(3D printing) in Education

Postgraduate In Industrial Iot, (Iot, Machine Learning, Data Science, Big Data)

The Africa Industrial Internet Programme is a year-long project based learning programme to address the demand for a digital-savvy.

Product Manager Nanodegree, Product Management

- Product strategy - Product design - Product development - Product Launch

Starting And Managing A Startup, Venture Building

Principles Of Machine Learning: Python Edition, Data Science

This data science course gives clear explanations of machine learning theory combined with practical scenarios and hands-on experience.

Mobile Web Specialist, Computer Software Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree In Computer Science & Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering

Computer Science, Computer Science

Physics

Advanced Certificate of secondary education

Electrical And Electronics

Member of Electrical and electronics maintenance brigade