Ben Momat is a senior energy and infrastructure professional with more than 18 years of experience across Central and Southern Africa. He currently serves as Non-Executive Director of Afrik Experts and Non-Executive Director of KARAPH, providing strategic oversight in EPC delivery, engineering consulting, and energy project development.
A former ABB engineer, Ben has built a multidisciplinary career spanning utility systems, HV/MV networks, renewable energy, and commercial leadership roles. He has collaborated with international partners such as Wärtsilä, SparkMeter, NRECA International, and others on major energy initiatives including rural electrification, grid modernization, and industrial power solutions.
Ben has also held executive roles—most notably as Commercial Director at Nuru—where he led commercial strategy, stakeholder engagement, and clean-energy portfolios. His expertise covers regulatory compliance (ARE, ANSER, MRHE), financial structuring, and navigating complex public–private power environments.
A PMP-certified professional, Ben is completing a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Management & Administration at Stellenbosch Business School, complementing prior energy leadership studies at Wits University. He is passionate about strengthening Africa’s energy resilience, accelerating electrification, and enabling sustainable industrial growth.More...
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Co-Founder , General Director and Business Development Officer Archip Lobo Ngumba Aimé
Archip Lobo Ngumba Aimé is one of Nuru’s co-founders, board menber from 2021 to 2023, the General Director and Business Development Officer at Nuru, a scaling minigrid Company dedicated to enhancing connectivity in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Nuru deployed Congo’s first solar-based mini-grid in 2017 and owns a 1.3MW solar hybrid site in Goma, the largest off-grid mini-grid in sub-Saharan Africa. Another solar hybrid site in Beni and two in the Oriental province (Tadu & Faradje) with a 15 Mw project pipeline to be deployed in 2023.
Archip joined the company full-time in July 2019. He is a social entrepreneur with more than four years of project management experience working on Université’s Chrétienne Bilingue du Congo’s (UCBC) Integrated Research Institute’s (IRI) internationally-recognized landgovernance project. Archip is based in Goma, DRC.
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