Dancan Onyango
CEO
Dancan has a progressive career in banking and financial inclusion consulting. He has worked for and with fast paced organizations in Africa and Asian markets. He is also a recipient of the President Obama’s & US State Department’s Mandela Washington Fellow ship for Young Africa Leaders. Dancan holds a Bachelors of Commerce and certifications on Financial Inclusion and Public Policy, Innovation for Economic Development both from Harvard Kennedy School, and a Business and Entrepreneurship from the University Of Notre Dame, Indiana. He is finalizing his MBA in Entrepreneurial Finance at Babson College. His countries of work experience include The United States, Kenya, Cambodia, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Cote D’Ivoire and Tanzania.
Hermann Gams – Supporter
Hermann brings over 30 years of experience in Entrepreneurship across the European markets. Specifically, he has mentored hundreds of entrepreneurs across the globe with specific interest in Africa, the MENA region and Europe. Herman supports the partnership engagements and capital raising strategies for Jiwo Paro. He is also the co-founder of Dremicon Valley, an entrepreneurship development facility based out of Austria.
Akinyi Awora – COO
Akinyi has worked as design thinking consultant helping businesses, civil societies and public servants design products and programs built for impact. Prior to co-founding Jiwo Paro, she founded Learning Growth Africa, a pan-African network of African youth dedicated to leapfrogging African learning systems into the future. She is a Mandela Washington Fellow, a #IamRemarkable trainer, an Africa Youth for SDG’s Champion, SDG 4 Champion and a relentless force in advocating for sustainable development. She holds a BA in Community Development from Maasai Mara University
Eric Onyango Advisor
Eric is a seasoned lawyer and managing attorney at Prime Legal LLC in Chicago. He provides legal and business solutions across a wide variety of areas including intellectual property, employment and financial industry compliance matters. He Holds an MBA from Chicago Booth, LLB, BSc in Computer Science and other accolades on Entrepreneurship and Strategy, International Business, Project management, IT and Computer Science.
Dr. Maurice Ouma Advisor
Dr. Maurice is an experienced General Practice Medical Doctor with Professional Computing expertise and passion for financial inclusion, analytical research. He has designed and co-authored integrated industry standard insurance brokerage software for the Kenyan market, and has led several technical executive teams working on additional utilities and modules for information interchange with other relevant applications in the financial services industry.
Mrs. Teresa Aoko
County Director -Kisumu County.
Teresa volunteers as an outreach and Community engagement manager. She is in charge of grass-root mobilization and capacity building strategy for the organization. She is a seasoned entrepreneur who is experienced in small business management and has a vast knowledge of Kisumu County where she has spent over 30 years managing small businesses space.