Team
We currently have a team of 50 at our HQ in Nairobi and an R&D collaboration with the University of Southampton in the UK, and industry partnerships for the UK Research & Innovation’s Trusted Autonomous Systems Hub and an Alan Turing Institute AI Fellowship.
UTU’s leadership brings 70 years collective experience across strategy, operations, AI/ML, distributed systems, computer science, and finance. CEO Jason Eisen led strategy, design, and development of large-scale donor projects across multiple sectors in more than 40 countries, helping secure more than $3B in funding opportunities. CTO Dr. Bastian Blankenburg, focused his PhD on distributed AI utilizing multi-agent systems, the foundation of our IP. Director of Mobility, Ronald Mahondo brings more than 12 years in senior leadership in the African technology, banking, oil sectors. Head of Data Science, Dr. Alex Mwai has a PhD in Nuclear Physics and has built AI models on the largest particle collision datasets in the world.