About 1000 Alternaves We idenfy and invest in market leading social enterprises globally from our office presence in Singapore, Kenya, Kigali, Nigeria and next the Gambia. We look globally for companies working in transformave ways within our sectors of focus and provide them with operaonal support and funding to scale. Our companies are profit-driven with potenal for large-scale social impact that can be replicated regionally or globally. We engage with companies that do not have other equity partners and the deals we structure include our providing access to advice, experse, operaonal capacies and facilies as well as access to funding and partners at both pilot and scale-up stages. In short, we are a globally oriented, stage agnosc incubator and investment fund that empowers giſted social entrepreneurs in East Africa, West Africa and Asia.
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About 1000 AlternativesWe identify and invest in market leading social enterprises globally from our office presence in Singapore, Kenya, Kigali, Nigeria and next the Gambia.
We look globally for companies working in transformative ways within our sectors of focus and provide them with operational support and funding to scale.Our companies are profit-driven with potential for large-scale social impact that can be replicated regionally or globally.
We engage with companies that do not have other equity partners and the deals we structure include our providing access to advice, expertise, operationalcapacities and facilities as well as access to funding and partners at both pilot and scale-up stages.
In short, we are a globally oriented, stage agnostic incubator and investment fund that empowers gifted social entrepreneurs in East Africa, West Africa andAsia.
Our focus
“Our mission is to invest in profit-driven companies that deliver social good through their products and services. Scaling up these companies will guaranteelong-lasting social impact” - Athman Ali (CEO, 1000 Alternatives)
Our partners
Our teamOur senior management has a proven track record ofidentifying, investing and leading social impactprogrammes and companies in Africa and Asia-Pacific.
Athman Ali - CEO19+ years in international development and social impact across Africa and the Asia-Pacific.
Mahmood Noor – COO
19+ years in operations in MENA. Board member on the Kenya government taskforce on AI and blockchain for social good.
Wambui Karanja – VP, People Operations
10 years+ people management and in catalysing community-based initiatives from the ground up.
Mohamed Gharib – VP, East Africa
12+ years in in East Africa in developing new business, data and analytics for agriculture, manufacturing, trade/transport.
Oke Nachukwu – VP, West Africa
18+ years in developing new business, project management, telecoms for governments and world-leading telecommunication vendors in the US and MENA.
Peter Ngunyi – Advisor, Incubation
12+ years in incubation and acceleration in U.S. and Africa. Founder of EarlyBird Venture lab and former President of BRCK.
Nationality/ies: Kenyan Work Authorization: Need work-permit most countries Languages: English (Fluent), Swahili (Native), Bahasa Indonesia (Basic) Education: BTech, Computer Science and Engineering (IIT Kharagpur) INSEAD Global Executive MBA (INSEAD Singapore) Total Years of Experience: 19 Sector/s Experienced in: International development, Non-profit and Social Impact in Education, Trade and Transport Facilitation, Health, Governance, Decentralization, Innovations. Function/s Experienced in: Innovations, Strategy, Performance, Seed Funding and Funds Management, Communications, Monitoring and Evaluation, Research and Analytics, Operations (Finance, Procurement, HR). Countries covered: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, DR Congo, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Timor Leste, Nigeria, Australia, All COMESA countries, SADC, SACU, EAC. Job Titles: From 2018, Foundation Lead, Education Systems and MEL (Rwanda) 2015-2017, Director Strategy, Innovation, Performance (Asia) 2013-2015, Director Research and Learning (Africa) 2010-2013, Director, ICT for Trade and Transport (Africa) 2007-2010, Head Innovation and Communication (Africa)
Accomplished Executive in Social Impact with proven experience in Indonesia, East and West Africa on trade and transport facilitation, communications, monitoring and evaluation as well as innovations in education, policy reform and governance, trade and transport and in service delivery systems for health, legal identity, economic opportunities and job creation. Major Achievements include:
• Extensive experience in designing and directing programmes for better access to and better learning outcomes for education, TVET and education for skills, cluster management and edtech.
• Supported regional integration in the EAC, ECOWAS and COMESA regions through innovations in trade and transport facilitation. Developed the only working observatory for monitoring logistics corridor in the world used in policy decisions by governments to reduce costs of goods in East Africa.
• Was one of the first four team members who designed and bootstrap arguably the largest aid-for-trade platform in the world, TradeMark East Africa at USD $630 of donor funding, having the largest social impact returns of any previous projects through infrastructure and software and systems.
• Recognized as a leading global innovator by the President of the World Bank (World Bank Apps for Development Award in 2011).
• Awarded a Ministerial commendation from the Kenyan Ministry of Communications for being the Technical Lead for Kenya’s globally acclaimed open data initiative that made Kenya the first country in Sub-saharan Africa to go Open Data.
• Education, edtech. • Innovations for Social Impact, ICT (including programming). • Strategy, design and bootstrapping of large-scale social impact • Geographical expansion, government relations and public/private sector engagement on
social impact. • Management of large International teams with large budgets and mandates. • Financial management and reporting (for social impact). • Communications, Monitoring and Evaluation, Research/Analytics (Big Data, Data Science).
• Target Function/s: C-suite level in a profit or non-profit entity working in international development or for social impact.
• Target Sector/s: VCs/Impact Investing, Consulting for Social Impact, Large Foundations, IFC, World Bank.
• Preferred Location/s: Singapore, Europe, Africa, Asia (any)
Accomplished Project Manager/ Civil Engineer with 18 years of experience in deployment of Surveillance Systems, Tetra Public Safety Networks, Telecommunication Networks (3g, CDMA, Wimax, Fixed Telephony) for Governments, World leading Telecommunication Networks and Vendors. Proven track record of managing projects in order to meet company’s objectives in terms of quantity and quality and achieve network coverage and capacity targets,
Major Achievements include: x Member of a Project Management Office advising the government of Saudi
Arabia on their $3 billion dollar Border Protection Program. This project when completed will provide 100% Air, Land and Sea Radar Surveillance Coverage.
x Led a team of engineers for acceptance and close out of Saudi Arabia’s $ 1 Billion Unified Secured Communication Network.
x Successfully managed the passive audit of Bharti Airtel’s Mobile network across Africa. The objective was to identify critical issues that would impact the performance of ERICSSON during the execution of the managed services contract for Airtel Africa.
x Successfully rolled out and optimized mobile networks across Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Cote D’ivoire, Sierra Leone, Benin, Gabon and Togo – 3g, CDMA, Wimax, Fiber etc.
Nationality: Nigerian Work Authorization:Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, West Africa, USA Languages: English Education: B.Eng Civil Engineering, INSEAD Global Executive MBA Total Years of Experience: 18 Sector/s Experienced in: Telecoms, Construction, Function/s Experienced in: Project Management, Operations, Logistics Countries covered: USA, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Ghana, Cote D’ivoire, Gabon, Rwanda, Benin, Congo B, Togo, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Niger, Chad Job Titles: 2015-2017, Physical Infrastructure Consultant/ Civil Engineer 2014-2015, Physical Infrastructure Consultant 2011-2013, Global Project Manager 2010-2011, Senior Civil Works Manager 2009-2010, Project manager 2007-2009, Roll Out Manager
x Telecommunication network roll out in different markets x Civil engineering construction x Geographical expansion x Department turnaround x International team management x Vendor Management
Target Function/s: Chief Technical Officer, Project Director Target Sector/s: Telecoms Utilities, Construction Preferred Location/s: GCC, Africa (any)
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Mohamed Gharib Mazrui
Profile Summary
Competences
Professional Objectives
Mohamed is an Experienced Executive in data analysis and business systems proven experience in East Africa on Monitoring & Evaluation, Research methods and Data analysis visualizations as well as innovations in governance of data projects for improvements in Agriculture, Manufacturing, Trade and Transport. Major Achievements include:
• Recognized for supporting the results Director at Trademark East Africa in the pilot and roll out of a mobile data collection system to monitor trade development programmes across East Africa.
• Setup, train and monitor data collection for Fairtrade Africa climate academy for coffee farmers in Kenya and the Vi Agroforestry youth in farming project across East Africa.
• Worked with several Multinational aid agencies like Technoserve and CRS across Africa under the Grameen Foundation mobile data collection program, helping them align indicators to their field monitoring activities.
• Selected as one of the GODAN Champion 2018 on Open data initiatives for Agriculture across Africa.
Nationality/ies: Kenyan Work Authorization: Need work-permit most countries Languages: English (Fluent), Swahili (Native) Education: Bsc, Information Technology (Manipal University) Msc Technology Management (Staffordshire University) Total Years of Experience: 10 Sector/s Experienced in: Research, Monitoring and Evaluation, Data Analysis and visualization, Mobile data collection, Business Data Systems, Business Analysis, Sales and marketing Function/s Experienced in: Research methodologies, Data Analysis, Data Visualization tools, Monitoring and Evaluation, Information systems analysis, Technology for business, Technology sales. Countries covered: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, South Sudan, Burundi Job Titles: 2016-2018, Independent Data Consultant (East Africa) 2015-2017, Business Dev/ Customer Success-Grameen Foundation 2014-2014, Business Development Manager- Addvantum (Oracle) 2012-2014, ERP consultant/Sales Manager- Printfast K Ltd 2009-2012, Senior Consultant- Business Analyst (Kenya)
• Innovations in data collection, analysis and visualization. • Design of mobile data monitoring systems. • Research methodologies in Monitoring and Evaluation. • Management of social impact programmes in Agriculture and Trade through data. • Data Analytics • Business Data Systems for the manufacturing sector.
Target Function/s: Leading Data initiatives in a non-profit entity to achieve social impact. Target Sector/s: Multinational aid agencies, non-profits, Large multilateral organizations. Preferred Location/s: Within East Africa.
