
Omari has over 14 years experience in Risk Management and Financial Portfolio Analysis. He was responsible for performing risk analysis and financial analysis for the U.S. Small Business Administration on a portfolio of over $5 billion in small business loans and investments. As a Financial Economist, he was part of the 7A program that joined public and private U.S small business investment funds. He is highly skilled at performing investment, portfolio and risk analysis and has a variety of experience working in the East African region. He earned an M.I.P.P from George Washington University in International Economic Policy and a B.A in Economics from the Universityof Michigan.

Daniel is a Fund manager with over 12 years working experience in the investment management industry. He spent 5 years at Alpha Africa Asset Managers as the Investment Portfolio Manager. He has got extensive experience in building new real estate funds and achieving remarkable returns on investment. He holds a bachelor of science in International Business Administration and he is a chartered financial analyst. He loves reading books, hiking and riding anything with 2 wheels.

Luke is a serial entrepreneur with 3 previous successful mobile VAS startups in East Africa and he has exited 2. He has over 15 years of Telecom Engineering and Saas Architect experience. He has accumulated extensive knowledge of business and finance as well as currency and capital flows in the East Africa region. He has M.S. from University of Texas’ Redcombs School of Business in Technology Commercialization and B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Makerere University in Kampala

Ian has over 13 years experience in ICT4D, Commercialisation of Digital platforms, recruitment and managing field based teams. He is a former director at Beyonic Inc. He oversaw its operations right from the start until it became a very successful business across the East African region and got acquired. He is highly skilled in operations and sales management. He is very good at building and cultivating lasting business relationships. He has a bachelor’s degree in Development and he majored in rural development. He loves to travel and meeting new people.

Annah is a highly skilled portfolio asset management professional who specializes in identifying investment grade real estate assets, partnerships and the optimization of assets under management. During her 14 -year progressive multi- sectoral career, Annah has served in roles including; Account Manager, Britam Asset Managers, Head of Asset Management- Standard Chartered Bank (East African Cluster) and in Infrastructure development advisory, Miradi Group –Pty. Annah is passionate about Green Real Estate and leverages her insights and expertise in the promotion of investments in ESG real assets. She holds a B.A in Land Economics from the University of Nairobi and is a Master Candidate in Real Estate at Georgetown University.
We do impact investing to advance two primary goals:
1. To deliver healthy returns to our investors for each investment period
2. To achieve these returns by focusing on origins of value, delivering capital to those who need it in markets that are rapidly growing and yet under-served.
Our investments include below-market loans, equity, guarantees, and other instruments, with a strong focus on additionality — meaning the underlying activities would not take place "but for" our investment. Leverage is also a priority of ours, and we use our capital in ways that achieve impact beyond what we could realize on our own.
We anchor housing preservation initiatives, attracting new capital to the region's housing sector and we help tens of thousands of families live better lives. We seek to fuel innovative financing plans to develop single-family and multi-family properties using energy-efficient improvements, thereby testing opportunities for potential scaling and replication.
This helps guide our approach today. Most notably, we:
Make investments in enterprises and funds that pioneer new products or services, serve new people or places, attract new investors, build market infrastructure, and/or spur useful policy change;
Aim to have a lasting impact on the communities (i.e. durability);
Invest in intermediaries to multiply impact;
Collaborate and partner to reach scale
Our impact investments improve the lives of people and the environment by supporting Foundation strategies and the challenges outlined in the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
In addition to mobilizing and deploying catalytic capital, we are also working to build a strong evidence base that makes the impact investing field more effective. By widely sharing proof points and lessons learned, we can support innovation, encourage new investors, and scale impact. More specifically, the outcomes toward which we strive include:
Attracting commercial and institutional capital, alongside providers of catalytic capital, to collectively contribute significant new financing for sustainable development;
Demonstrating the capacity of catalytic capital to efficiently finance high-impact and high-need opportunities that would otherwise be overlooked by the conventional market;
Developing clear evidence on how and when catalytic capital can have the greatest impact across different sectors and beneficiaries; and
Educating investors, policymakers, foundations, and others with a vested interest in this work about the value of catalytic capital so that there is broad recognition of its capacity to drive positive outcomes for people and the planet.
Conclusions in these critical areas will be informed by robust impact measurement and management practices.
