Career experience — impact narrative

A continental track record, in the client's own terms.

Thirty years across energy, water, pensions and trade — each role framed not as a job held, but as an outcome delivered and an opportunity it opens next.

2015 — Present

Brands and Beyond Ltd

Founder & Chief Energising Officer
Nairobi · East & Central Africa · Continental

East Africa's leading sustainable marketing, climate strategy and infrastructure-trust consultancy — building social license, mobilising capital, and creating the market platforms that make Africa's most complex deals possible.

  • Led social license and community strategy for Lake Turkana Wind Park (360MW) — defused compensation disputes; project successfully commissioned.
  • Chief Mobilisation Lead for a USD 1B, 100-dam water PPP — produced Kenya's first private-sector water infrastructure investor brief and DFI engagement framework.
  • Stakeholder engagement advisory for KOSAP: 120 off-grid sites, 240 solar boreholes (4MW), 1M cookstoves, 3,000 smart meters, 200 desalination plants.
  • Built five award and recognition platforms from concept to commercial operation.
Future opportunity  Africa's reference partner for any DFI, government, pension fund or developer needing stakeholder trust architecture, market-platform creation, or a capital narrative.
2000 — 2015

Kenya Power (KPLC)

Head of Strategy & Change / Senior Leadership
Nairobi, Kenya

Strategic and commercial transformation of Kenya's national utility at scale.

  • Grew electricity connections from 40,000 to 1,000,000+ per annum in six years.
  • Drove 120% profit growth through tariff reform, commercial strategy and market expansion.
  • Led restructuring and change across a 14,000-person organisation — people transformation at utility scale.
  • KEPSA policy advocacy: Energy Bill enactment, PPP memoranda, Kenya-Uganda oil & gas and EAC trade negotiations.
Future opportunity  Infrastructure governance and large-utility transformation advisory — the reference client is a national grid.
2016 — 2022

KOSAP — Kenya Electricity Modernisation

Programme Advisory (Brands and Beyond)
Kenya — nationwide off-grid

Stakeholder engagement, community mobilisation and communications for Kenya's largest off-grid electrification programme.

  • 120 off-grid solar systems serving rural and marginalised communities.
  • 240 solar-powered boreholes and 4MW of solar powering water infrastructure.
  • 1,000,000 clean cookstoves distributed; 3,000 smart meters installed.
  • Turkana County Energy Master Plan — secured AfDB partnership for 22 off-grid generation units.
Future opportunity  Off-grid and rural electrification advisory for AfDB-, USAID- and DFI-funded universal-access programmes.
2021 — 2024

Transport Licensing Appeals Board

Board Member
Kenya

Ranked #1 Tribunal in Kenya for three consecutive years under tenure.

  • Resolved 300+ cases; transformed TLAB from a reactive body to a proactive sector-reform leader.
  • Pioneered Africa's first e-mobility dispute-resolution framework — now the continental reference.
  • Adjudicated Uber / Bolt disputes on labour rights, fair commissions and gig-economy policy.
  • Championed removal of the Police Clearance Certificate barrier for young transport workers.
Future opportunity  E-mobility policy advisor packaging Kenya's framework for Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Ghana. DFI-fundable.
2017 — 2024

Epicenter Africa

Chairman & Head of Strategy and Communications
Kenya · South Sudan · Uganda

Off-grid implementation and route-to-market across East Africa.

  • 'Kilimo Solar / Turudi Shambani' — 1,400 solar pumps sold in 13 months with Lorenz (Germany) and Grundfos (Denmark).
  • Deployed 22 AfDB-funded off-grid units in Turkana — Kenya's first scratch off-grid plant (500 homes).
  • 200 solar desalination plants (Kitui / Finnish partners), Climate Finance Trust-funded.
  • Kenya Airways (Fahari Aviation) partnership — drone utility inspection and precision agriculture.
Future opportunity  Off-grid implementation advisory across East and West Africa with AfDB, World Bank and USAID track record.
2020 — 2021

UNON — United Nations Office Nairobi

Change & Communication Consultant
Nairobi, Kenya

Change and communication strategy for 4,500 UN staff during flexi-work transformation and campus remodelling.

  • Designed a sustainability-first office concept — the first energy-efficient UNON complex.
  • Achieved a 76% acceptance rate for the new flexible-working strategy across international staff.
  • Championed Kenya's solar potential in workspace design.
Future opportunity  UN and multilateral change-management advisory — proven inside the world's most demanding institutions.
Credentials & affiliations

Governance, marketing, and behavioural-science credentials behind the work.

Who I work with
Development Finance Institutions
AfDB · World Bank · IFC · GIZ · USAID · UNEP · Climate Finance Trust
Government & Regulatory Bodies
Energy Ministries · Transport · County Govts · EPRA · RBA · TLAB · EAC
Pension & Investment
Pension Fund Trustees · Asset Managers · Private Equity · Blended Finance
Energy & Water Sector
Utilities · OMCs · Renewable Developers · Water Service Boards · Off-Grid Players

Clarity 4D Certified Practitioner

Behavioural science applied to leadership and market change.

CIM — Chartered Institute of Marketing

Former Chair, Kenya Chapter.

Founding Trustee, Kenya Power Pension Fund

Investment Committee member; 6+ years governance.

UN-Recognised Author

Children's books aligned to the SDGs; UNICEF-backed.

KEPSA Board Diversity Sector Chair

Led NSE gender-diversity research and policy.

EPC 2026 Technical Expert

Engineers Board of Kenya — Innovation Award design.

AEEE International Award

E-Mobility Conference 2020 international recognition.

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