Team
Ann Alexis Juma – COO – 3 years running Kakia Oils – 21 yrs project management in non-profit sector, 2 years grant making – struggled to source from farmers right quality produce, at the right time and in right quantities for her oil supply chain
Lawrence Njihia – CFO – 4 years as a co-founder at a previous start-up SHOPJIJI – watched father struggle a lot getting buyers for his harvested potatoes as a result of a surplus in the market, harvest sold at a meagre price eventually
Peter Musyoki – CTO – 4 years as a co-founder at One Shot Africa, a content company – friend lost much of his produce from the farm since it could not get from the farm to market in the right amount of time when he found the right prices he wanted to sell at
Ariane Umuringa – Team Lead – 6 years as a co-founder at StarLight Africa – farmers in her birth place of Gisenyi including her parents who cultivated trees experienced barriers in accessing right markets