Patrick Tonui – Baltimore, Maryland
Patrick Tonui leads the way in business development at the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development.
Hazel Gachoka – San Francisco, California
Hazel Gachoka is currently the Services Marketing Manager at Cisco Systems responsible for building service strategy, definition, development, implementation, management and metrics for services across the network lifecycle for new advanced services at CISCO. Ms Gachoka is also the TAN Membership Director and along with her business partners have recently launched a renewable energy company in Africa called PRCK Energy…
Joshua Wanyama, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Joshua Wanyama is the founder of African Path Communications. African Path is an online portal company that includes African Path, African Path Village, African Path TV and Cheetah Index. African Path, allows Africans to own and tell their own stories on the global stage. African Path Village provides further interaction between site visitors through a…
June Arunga – A Most Creative Person
June Arunga has been voted one of 100 Most Creative People by Fast Company. She is currently an equity partner with Black Star Lines, a company that She convinced she persuaded Chinery-Hesse (dubbed the Bill Gates of Africa) to join forces with to create a mobile-payment network for business owners. You can learn more about…
Western Union Testing Mobile Money Transfer
Our cellphones will soon be worth a whole lot more than we paid for them. Western Union has started offering an option where you can send money to Kenya via your mobile phone using M-Pesa. This is a great example of mobile transaction services. In March of 2007 Safaricom Ltd., a Kenyan network operator partially…
Ushahidi – Good Enough to be on Forbes
Forbes had the good taste to talk about a website that has impacted the way we look at citizen reporting in times of crisis. The site is Ushahidi. It was, for some Kenyans, the only way we could keep up with the situations that were going on in Kenya during the riots after the 2007…
Mwende Window Snyder – San Francisco, California
Mwende Window Snyder is Chief Security Officer at Mozilla Corporation. She is co-author of Threat Modeling, a standard manual on application security. Snyder was Director of Security Architecture at @stake and was a senior security strategist at Microsoft in the Security Engineering and Communications organization, most notably as security lead and signoff on Microsoft Windows…
