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Keneth Ndua
Kenneth is a social entrepreneur with extensive, hands-on experience with social enterprise and sustainable livelihoods development. He has worked extensively with NGOs and CBOs in Kenya in developing their capacity and fundraising. He holds a Master’s degree in community care HIV and AIDS from University of Wales Trinity David (UK) with a bias in sustainable livelihoods. He has a lot of experience in entrepreneurship and business management through trainings and exposure. He will be pursuing his PHD in social entrepreneurships later in the year. Through his work with women’s groups in Kibera, Kawangware and Ruiru, STAMP director Kenneth Ndua observed that water borne diseases such as cholera and diarrhoea are common due to people drinking contaminated water from shallow wells, and that women in the community spend a significant amount of their time caring for family and friends who are ill. Most people cannot afford the extra fuel needed to boil water and sanitise it due to high living costs and low purchasing power: a typical family has an average income of USD 1.2 per day, of which USD 0.7 (~60%) is spent on fuel, and the remainder is spent on meeting other basic needs such as buying food and paying rent. In response to this challenge, Kenneth developed the Energy Conserving Stove (ECOS) – a fuel-efficient biomass stove featuring an innovative built-in jacket that can be filled with 7 litres of water. This feature both helps to insulate the stove, making it more efficient, and allows the user to simultaneously boil water whilst cooking. Several prototypes were developed before the design was finalized of stove ECOS
| Investors: | Website: http://cookstove.kbo.co.ke/home | Email: |
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Nicole Ballin
Nicole is a co-founder and COO of UpEnergy, a social enterprise that specializes in distributing high quality, affordable energy-efficient products in the developing world. Since its founding, Nicole has led development and implementation of the company's sales and distribution strategy in Uganda resulting in the sale of over 13,000 energy efficient cookstoves in 11 months of operation. Nicole came to UpEnergy with five years experience in the financial sector and has spent the past four years in the social enterprise field, turning her ideas into actions. In 2009 Nicole co-founded a social enterprise called Refill Revolution which was acquired by True2O where Nicole now serves on the Board of Advisors. Nicole holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley and a B.A. in International Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles.
| Investors: | Website: http://upenergygroup.com/ | Email: |
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Paola de Cecco
Paola de Cecco is the Coordinator of Coordinatorillage Energy Limited
| Investors: | Website: http://www.villageenergyuganda.com/ | Email: |
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Saurabh Saraf
I founded and worked with start-ups in the Indian environment and energy sector. I also have experience in management consulting and policy research. I graduated with an Erasmus Mundus MSc. in environmental policy and management (2014) and attended the Frontier Market Scout’s fellowship in impact investing & social enterprise at MIIS. Since last year I have been involved in Swedish Energy Agency commissioned projects on cleantech venture capital. In my current engagement I am working with a cleantech start-up aiming to solve sanitation related food-water-energy issues in urban slums of developing countries.
| Investors: | Website: http://biopolus.org/ | Email: [email protected] |
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Sylvain Romieu
As global innovation manager, Sylvain leads UpEnergy’s marketing, sales, and technology innovation efforts with a focus on creating new markets and value networks. Before joining UpEnergy, Sylvain piloted the Growing Sustainable Business Initiative for UNDP in Senegal, developed sales and marketing for Grameen Danone social business project in Bangladesh, and developed and managed the Milky Start social business project for Danone in Poland. Sylvain holds post-graduate degrees in International Business from Universite Paris Est and in Sustainable Development Management from HEC Paris Business School.
| Investors: | Website: http://upenergygroup.com/ | Email: |