Unlocking Solar Capital Africa

Ruth Nankabirwa

Minister of Energy and Mineral Development

Nambuya Imbega

Senior BD Manager

Sarah Alexander

Global Technical Advisor, Off Grid Electrification

Mathew Kimolo

Regional Sales Director

Sanjeev Debipersad

Director of Investment Portfolio

Oscar Ankunda

Energy Specialist

Dana Rysankova

Global Lead for Energy Access

Lucette Denoman

Program LeadEnergy2Equal

Peter Page

Investment Officer

Irene Bateebe

Permanent Secretary

Joao Cunha

Head of Division, Renewable Energy

Sarah Bieber

Head of Energy Partnerships

Chiedza Mazaiwana

Portfolio Manager

Shelmith Theuri

Deputy Director

Crystal Mugimba

Principal

Paul Muhia

Director of Operations

Angela Muraguri

Investment Manager

Faran Rana

Associate Programme Officer

Abraham Mudasia

Communications Director

Duda Slawek

Associate Partner

Michael Franz

Team Leader

Stella Lunkuse

Managing Director

Kat Harrison

Director of Impact

Nick Imudia

Group Chief Executive Officer

Jibril Omar

CEO

Christopher Emmott

Associate Director, Investing in Energy Access

Lyndsay Holley Handler

Partner

Edgar Wavomba

Associate director

Lindsay Umala

Director of Country Transitions

Will Clements

Research Associate

Marie Ephigenie

Training & Operations Manager

Juan Luis Agarrado

Sub-Saharan Manager

Randa Mrabat

Global Head of Mini-grids Product & Commercial

Dan Waldron

Head of Insights

Chanel Gisage

Senior Director of Commercial

Ronan Ferguson

Senior Private Sector & Investment Manager

Charlotte Taylor

Communications and Impact Manager

Rupesh Hindocha

CEO and Chairman

Thomas Duveau

Chief Strategy Officer (CSO)

Denis Karema

Chief Executive Officer

Douglas Baguma

CEO Innovex

Bernardo Lazo

Head of Climate

Emmannuel Beau

Founder, President

Andreas Zeller

Co-CEO and Director

Jean-Baptiste Lenoir

President & Cofounder

Chloe Koburunga

Investment Associate

Divya Balakrishnan

Senior Advisor

Ayoola Dominic

President and Co-Founder

Dario Fallara

Chief Development Officer

Paul Kamoga

General Manager

Ruchi Soni

Program Manager Results-based Financing

Jem Porcaro

Head of Energy Access

Brendan Cronin

CEO

Maya Stewart

Co-founder and Director

Joyce Nkuyahaga

Lead Advisor

Tao Bindslev

CFO

Jakob Hornbach

CEO / CFO

Warren Ondanje

Managing Director

Catherine Allinson

Director

Kristina Skierka

CEO

Paul Byamugisha

Sr. Climate Finance Officer

David Otieno

Cluster Coordinator and Program Director

Raihan Elahi

Lead Energy Specialist

Michael Kuntz

CFO

Jolanda van Ginkel

Programme Manager Renewable Energy

Geraldine Sande

Business Development Lead, Access to Energy

Federico Hinrichs

RE and Energy Access Consultant

Justine Akumu

Energy Officer

Kato Kibuka

CEO

Peter Mwesiga

Project Team Lead

Agnes Naluwagga

Coordinator

Simon Batchelor

Director

Sylla Elhadji

Senior Advisor

Besnik Hyseni

Energy Specialist

Idris Tayebi

Energy Economist

Olugbenga Ajala

Founder & CEO

Peter BenHur Nyeko

Co-Founder

Meredith Muthoni

Senior Financial Analyst

Russel Lyseight

Head

Luke Barras

COO

Anthony Osijo

Group CFO

Giuseppe Gregu

Senior Project Officer

Elsbeth Koning

Energy Access Specialist

Anne Gathoni

Senior Project Engineer

Troy Barrie

Co-Founder & CTO

Jenny Fletcher

CEO & Co-Founder

Grace Perkins

CEO and Operations Director

Toukam Ngoufanke

Senior Principal and Venture Builder

Sammy Borothi

Business Development Manager SSA

Mukami Kariuki

Country Manager for Uganda

Tafi Chikwakwata

Managing Director

Lorraine Indangasi

Head of Investments

Andi Kleissner

Co-CEO

Alexandre Tourre

CEO and co-founder

Safiya Aliyu

General Manager

Safiya Aliyu

General Manager

Sosai

Safiya Aliyu joined the Renewable Energy industry in 2007. She has a Master’s in Business Administration. Before her graduation from the university, she volunteered with the Developmental Association for Renewable Energies (DARE) supporting the Solar Cooker Deployment project and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Project on improved cook stove. Upon graduation from the university, she joined Sosai Renewable Energies Company as a Project Officer, she later rose through the ranks to become a Project Manager in which position she managed the Arthur Guinness Fund/ Relief International Water Filter Project. In 2018, she successfully became a Techwomen fellow after 6 weeks training with her team winning a seed loan for their community impact project; MAAMI Nigeria. She also gave the winning pitch of Solar for healthcare in 2022 at the Nigerian Power Sector Program supported by Power Africa. She is the incumbent Treasurer of the Renewable Energy Association of Nigeria. She has been with Sosai since inception and is presently the General Manager at the core of Sosai’s transformation journey with a lot of dedication and hard work. Safiya has equipped herself in the field of Renewable Energy with several trainings and is now handling the Sosai’s Matan Arewa Project where women are encouraged and trained to become entrepreneurs in the Renewable Energy Sector. She is an expert in the deployment and management of projects on improved cookstoves, solar systems and community development. She has worked with Sosai team to operationalize 5 offgrid solar minigrids, distributed over 75,000 units of improved cookstoves and 15,000 units of solar systems. Sosai is estimated to have positively impacted 1,000,000 lives through its solutions and will be doing more as the business grows.