Sylke’s career spans twenty-five years in academic, industry and healthcare delivery settings. Her expertise covers both commercial and operational domains with a track record of leading service innovation and managing rapid growth projects. She is currently Vice President of Programme Management at IXICO PLC, a digital technology company in London. Previous roles include Head of Projects and Corporate Development at InHealth Group, UK, Operations Management at Alliance Medical Ltd, UK, and Sales and Marketing at Siemens Healthcare in the US.
Her academic tenure was at the Hammersmith Hospital in London and at the Wellcome Trust, where she completed an industry sponsored PhD in 1995. Sylke graduated with distinction from the Imperial College Business School executive MBA programme in 2010.
Dr. Sylke Grootoonk
Mr. Mbindu holds a BSc. in Computer Science from Germany and is a full member of the Institute of Human Resource Management in Kenya. He has over 30 years work experience, most of which has been in the Banking sector as a human capital specialist. He joined Equity Bank in 2013 from Standard Chartered, where he had served at senior management levels in Human resources for over 15 years. Mr. Mbindu is also an Executive Director for Equity Group Foundation and Equity Bank Tanzania. He has also worked in other sectors including public sector (UNEP), consultancy (Deloitte) and ICT (Siemens, Germany). He has also held other senior positions including Head of Corporate Affairs – Standard Chartered, East Africa and Chairman of the Standard Chartered Nairobi Marathon.
Mr. Reuben Mbindu
Khadija holds an MBA from Imperial
College, London and a Bachelor’s Degree from
the University of Nairobi. She worked in the UK
for eleven years as a Transformational Change
Management Consultant.
After living and working in London, United Kingdom for nearly eleven years, Khadija returned to her home country Kenya, in 2017 to establish Kwanza Tukule. The establishment of the start-up is drawn out of her passion to use technological innovations and advancements to solve societal problems sustainably.
Khadija Mohamed Churchill(MBA)
Adrian Ackeret is a Partner and the Chief Investment Officer of elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalization, based in Zurich, Switzerland. He is responsible for overseeing elea’s philanthropic impact investing activities focused on building, managing, and strategically supporting a global portfolio of impact ventures that create lasting social impact by giving people living in absolute poverty access to employment, markets, and value chains.
Before joining elea in 2013, Adrian worked at the St. Gallen Symposium, an initiative that fosters global dialogue between business, politics, and society, and at RISE management research at the intersection of strategy and entrepreneurship. He graduated with an M.A. in Management from the University of St. Gallen (HSG).
Adrian
Having operated as the founding Chief Finance Officer at Twiga Foods, Mahia-John Mahiaini is a company builder and investor who is actively involved in the East African technology ecosystem. Prior to Twiga, Mahia-John was an investor with DOB Equity – a Dutch family office investing venture capital across the region. Mahia-John joined DOB Equity after a several years working in restructuring and turnaround investing whilst at Lloyds Banking Group in London.