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poa! internetImpact Director
Jan. 2024Nairobi County, KenyaPoa Internet is an Internet Service Provider that focuses on connecting the unserved and underserved communities of Africa, thus ensuring a reduction in the digital divide to enable and improve quality of life through access to knowledge and opportunities. My role involves: - • Development of strategy and mobilization of the entire organization to deliver against clear and measurable impact goals. • Ensuring legal and regulatory compliance in all aspects of the companies’ business operations. • Leveraging industry associations for policy advocacy to ensure ease of doing business. • Risk mitigation, through identifying risks across the business, establishing an action plan, and leading in development and monitoring of action plans. • Building and maintaining relationships with stakeholders, including investors, donors, regulators, community partners, and academic institutions. • Crafting measurement frameworks that can be used for impact evaluations of impact initiatives and analyzing, synthesizing and producing key insights that can inform multiple stakeholders. • Managing a team of Impact and ESG experts and leveraging different teams across the organisation to embed sustainability into all facets of their operations. • Fostering a culture of impact in the company and building internal understanding around impact and the intersect with each department’s function. • Developing ESG roadmap and ensuring we measure, and report on /quantify ESG and its impact to management, board, and shareholders. • Balance all impact with the company's strategic and commercial objectives. • Leveraging internal and external platforms and mediums to increase visibility of impact and ESG initiatives.
American TowerHead of Legal & Public Affairs / Company Secretary
Nov. 2018 - Dec. 2023KenyaATC is a passive network infrastructure company. My role involves rendering corporate affairs support across commercial, legal, regulatory, public affairs, sustainability, compliance, risk, governance, and communications through formulating and ensuring the implementation of strategic initiatives that provide the company competitive advantage. • Growth strategy - supported in set up of ATC in Kenya any and was instrumental driving year on year revenue growth; took lead to manage strategic customer relationships leading to long term contracts with MNOs; and successfully spearheaded legal, compliance and risk initiatives to actualize the 5-year market strategy into actionable priorities. • Culture and People - developed an effective succession plan and empowered different team members leading to enhanced productivity and growth of 3 team members; recruited, designed, and implemented an optimal Team structure to support the business. • Stakeholders Management -built and maintained relationships with Customers, Regulators, Government and other stakeholders, leading to faster resolutions to external challenges experienced; leveraged industry stakeholder relationships for extension of local shareholding requirement (LSR) obligations and championed the repeal of 30% LSR resulting in the repeal. • Business operations - led M&A activities and successfully integrated business processes of acquired entities; secured subsidies from the regulator for deployment of telecommunications infrastructure, avoided local tax liabilities with respect to thin capitalization, and leveraged regulator relationships for waiver of interest and penalties; steered the automation of legal, compliance, risk, and public affairs processes through leveraging Smartsheet. • Sustainability - developed and steered market sustainability strategy in line with UN SDGs; embedded Sustainability in all aspects of business operations; leveraged Communications Strategy to enhance Sustainability initiatives.
Internet SolutionsHead of Legal & Regulatory Affairs
Jul. 2014 - Oct. 2018KenyaInternet Solutions is a subsidiary of Dimension Data Middle East and Africa (DDMEA). My role involved providing support within the East African region. • Formulated and championed the company's legal, compliance and public policy strategies. • Set up the legal department, acquired resources, reviewed business operations and technical processes and procedure to align the department’s operations to those of the parent company. • Transitioned company from being publicly listed to private ownership. • Handled the consolidation of the company’s business operations from 3 separate legal entities into 1 legal entity. • Responsible for development and review of company policies and procedures for compliance with applicable laws and alignment with parent company. • In charge of legal operations i.e. strategic planning, financial management, vendor management, data analytics, litigation management and cross functional alignment. • Brand protection through management of the company’s intellectual property portfolio. • Creating and overseeing the implementation of the company’s risk management program. • Undertaking Company Secretarial functions and monitoring business legislative and regulatory environment. • Participation in company’s management through membership to the Operations Committee (OpCo), Disciplinary Committee and CSR Committee. • Participation in the formulation and implementation of policy change through membership to Telecom Corporate Counsels, LSK In-House Committee as well as organization’s representation at TESPOK, KEPSA and any other stakeholder forums as well as advocacy through engagement with the regulator and government ministries. • Creation of administration efficiency by standardization of contracting processes. • Revitalised the organizations’ internship program through own initiative by developing a mentoring program for interns. • Development and overseeing the company’s quarterly legal newsletter.
KCB Bank GroupLegal Manager-Litigation & Retail Support
Sep. 2012 - Jun. 2014NairobiKCB is a leading financial service provider in the East African Region. As part of my role, I dealt with and accomplished the following: • Ensured proper alignment and internal controls to facilitate timely regulatory compliance • Participated in process improvement by developing policy guidelines and procedures and training staff. • Facilitated quality assurance through management of external lawyers, maintaining litigation databases, negotiation of fees and settlement of suits. • Successfully handled organization change management by assisting in organizational restructuring, management of redundancies and negotiation of separation agreements. • Undertook research and provided legal advisory services on a wide variety of banking, regulatory, fraud, and employment disputes. • Created and oversaw the management and implementation of a litigation risk management program thus achieving 10% reduction in litigation cases. • Mitigation of legal risk through legal awareness training and development of frequently asked questions. • Negotiated, drafted, reviewed and revised commercial agreements. • Built partnerships and coalitions across the organization’s value chain for efficiency and effectiveness in performance of tasks so as to achieve the organization’s objectives.
KELIN (Kenya Legal Ethical Issues Network)Senior Legal & Litigation Officer
Oct. 2011 - Aug. 2012NairobiKELIN is a non-governmental organization that advocates for health related rights. As part of my role I accomplished the following: • Successfully developed the organisation's public policy framework and strategy to facilitate advocacy initiatives. • Successfully offered legal advisory services by handling litigation and researching on reported human rights violations. • Led the legal portion of human rights violation assessments and investigation of discrimination practices thus undertaking legislative lobbying and advocacy. • Promulgated the development of annual work plans, budgets and progress reports and undertook project monitoring and evaluation. • Had oversight over legal, HR and Administrative functions and facilitated organization efficiency through separation and alignment of the roles of the personnel in those functions. • Mitigation of risk through development of standard commercial agreement templates. • Revitalised legal awareness through fundraising and resource mobilization for training programs. • Successfully represented the organization at stakeholder functions locally, regionally and internationally to shed light on human rights violation as well as gain visibility for the organization's work.
Qualitysolicitors LockingsParalegal
Jun. 2010 - Nov. 2010Hull, United KingdomQSL is a law firm in the U.K that deals with employment issues. As part of my role, I undertook the following: • Offered legal support in employment disputes. • Ensured administrative efficiency through standardisation of the process of taking witness statements, advising clients on their claim progress and proper documentation filing in courts as well as management of witnesses and medical experts. • Ensured 100% record management by inputting and updating data on proclaim (legal document management program).
Wescot Credit ServicesCollections Advisor
Oct. 2009 - May. 2010Hull, United KingdomWescot Credit Services is Debt Collection Company in the U.K. My role involved: • Preparation of legal opinions and offering advisory on legal ramifications of bad debts. • Oferring advisory services on applications for Debt Relief Orders, Individual Voluntary Arrangements, Bankruptcy and Administration. • Recovery of unpaid debt by liaison with debtors on debt repayment plans and offering advisory services on debt management.
International Monetary FundIntern
May. 2007 - Oct. 2007Washington D.C. Metro Area• Assessment of member countries anti-money laundering policies. • Review and analysis of reports received on money laundering and financial terrorism. • Trade-based research on ways to combat money laundering.
Maina Mulwa & Co. AdvocatesLegal Associate
Sep. 2005 - Sep. 2006Mombasa, Kenya• Offered legal advisory services to clients and undertook legal research, pre-trial preparations and drafting pleadings . • 90% successful outcome of litigation matters on insurance claims, road traffic accidents, commercial and pro-bono criminal litigation. • Proper client engagement thus facilitated amicable dispute resolution where required.
Oyatta & Associates AdvocatesIntern-Holding Over
Nov. 2004 - Jun. 2005Nairobi, Kenya• Undertook legal research and drafted legal opinions predominantly on criminal law. • Assisted in pre-trial preparations including drafting of pleadings and witness statements. • Ensured Legal Cost Management through monitoring and evaluation of legal costs.
Rachuonyo & Rachuonyo AdvocatesPupil
Sep. 2003 - Oct. 2004Nairobi, Kenya• Drafted pleadings and undertook research on corporate, conveyancing, family law and other legal matters. • Assisted in pre-trial preparations and witness pre-trial briefing.
Mombasa Law CourtsIntern (Clinical Attachment)
Feb. 2002 - May. 2002Mombasa, Kenya• Attended daily court sessions and took notes during court proceedings. • Offered support to judges assigned to by undertaking research on authorities to support judgements and rulings and drafting rulings/judgments as requested.
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