Global Advisory Leadership Board

Sophia Bekele Founder & Chair

-Founder/Spearhead of the Yes2DotAfrica campaign
-Thought leader in Corporate Governance, international policy, Business Strategy, Internet, ICT & development.
– Founder /CEO DCA Group

Country – Kenya/Mauritius/USA/Ethiopia

Dr. Yassin Mshana CoChair

-Current: Independent Consultant
-Previous: UNICEF, eThinkTankTz, DFID & Ministry of Energy&Water Resources

Country – Tanzania/UK

Richard Kerby CoChair

-President at Richard Kerby LLC, Consulting Firm on Digital Transformation Co-Host of the radio show World Matters

Country – New York, USA

Michael Monari Member

– Team leader and Founder/CEO of Longitude Finance, (MSc, MBA)

Country – Kenya/UK

Prof. Tan Tin Wee Member

-Ass. Prof, National University of Singapore
-Co-Inventor of IDN; Inductee Internet Hall of Fame, Singapore

Country – Singapore

Michael Macharia Member

-Founder and Group CEO, Seven Seas Technologies (SST), Kenya

Country – Kenya

Eugene Nyagahene Member

-Serial investor in media, telecoms, finance, real estate and hospitality industry in EAC.

Country – Kigali, Rwanda

Salim Amin Member

-CEO Camerapix
-Founder and Chairman of The Mohamed Amin -Foundation
Chairman of A24 Media

Country – Kenya

Barry Ryan Member

-CEO Fintech International Group

Country – Kenya/Australia

Kim Guého, Member

-Independent Director, Head of Group Corporate Affairs
-Loita; General Manager
-Management Services Company

Country – Mauritius

Rt. Revd. Dr. Trevor S. Mwamba, Member

Rt. Revd. Dr. Musonda Trevor Selwyn Mwamba,

President of the United Independence National Party (UNIP) Zambia.

Country – Zambia

Justine Chinyata Member

-Chairman & Exec Director, Loita Group Africa Investment, South Africa

Country – South Africa/Zambia

Nebiyu Yosef Member

-Lead Advanced Tech Support/Analysis at Cricket Wireless

Country – USA/Ethiopia

Harry Hare Member

-Executive Director at African eDevelopment Resource Center; Chairman and executive producer CIO

Country – USA

Antoine Bigirimana Member

-Intl. Consultant; Rwanda ICT Association (R.I.C.T.A) Advisor, Rwanda

Country – Rwanda/ USA

Chima Onyekwere Member

-Group MD – Linkserve and Saap-Tech Group
-Father of Nigerian Internet, Nigeria ,NIRA

Country -Nigeria

Julius Maina Member

-Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Applied Accounting at Oxford Brookes University

Country – kenya

Shanil Ramtohul FCCA , ACA Member

-Finance Director at Loita Management Services

Country – Mauritius

Marakinesh Kassaye Member

-Budget Analyst at USAID

Country – Washington, District of Columbia, United States

T Goshu Member

-Former Information Technology Programme Manager (Application Implementation)
-Sr. Consultant, UNFCCC
-Infrastructure and Support Services at United Nations, Germany

Country – Germany / USA

Zaid Ali Member

-GM, Azure Infrastructure
-Principle Engineer at Linked-in; ISOC-SF President, USA

Country – United States of America

Hailu Mengistu Member

-Director-Product Engineering, NEC, USA

Country – Texas, United States

Yoav Keren Member

-CEO BrandShield Ltd.
-CEO Domain The Net Technologies Ltd.
-EX-ICANN President Advisory Mem-IDN
-ICANN gNSO Advisor (2012)
-Ex Sr. Advisor to M-PM Off, Israel

Country – Israel

Phillp Corwin Member

-Founding Principal at VirtuaLaw LLC; Legal counsel for the Internet Commerce Association (ICA) , USA

Country – United States of America

Prof. S. Subbiah Member

-Chairman and Co-Founder of i-DNS.net

Country – United States of America

James Sirleaf, Member (In Memoriam)

-Former CitiBank; GM Corporate Banking
-FiBank Ltd
-Banker and Member of the first family of Liberia

Country – Liberia

John Bosley Member (In Memoriam)

-Former Speaker of the House, Canada
-Former Sr. Legal Reform Advisor, Rwanda

Country – Canada/Rwanda

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David Fick Member

-Author of African Entrepreneurs in the 21st Century, Their Stories of Success, USA

Country- United States of America

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