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.