Board of Directors

Charity Wainaina

Charity has passion for providing leadership in creating meaningful relationships for brands based on market insights of the stakeholders. She thrives in building and working with diverse teams and tapping into the rich knowledge, culture and insights. Charity has 15 years marketing and communication industry experience with background from the media and financial services sectors having started off in an advertising agency- McCann Erickson Kenya. In 2004 she joined Faulu Microfinance Bank where she served 10 years as the Head of Marketing & Product Development spearheading the micro-leasing products strategy to drive the assets growth and also transitioned the brand through a successful rebrand after the Microfinance Act was changed to allow for deposit taking institutions in 2009.

In January 2014, she joined Old Mutual Kenya as the Head of Marketing, PR and Brand with key success in creating significant brand awareness in Kenyan households through a financial education led campaign .In October of the same year, she was appointed to Group Head of Marketing & Communication with oversight for Old Mutual and Faulu Microfinance Bank, a role which has since been enhanced with the current merger of UAP and Old Mutual. In her new capacity with UAP- Old Mutual Group, Charity is tasked with building a strong East Africa brand that is connected to the relevant market segments and resonates with all its stakeholders’ expectations across the East Africa business. Charity has an MBA in Strategic Management from The United States International University and a B.Com in Marketing from the University of Nairobi with various trainings in brand management and financial services marketing. She is a member of the Marketing Society of Kenya, Association of Microfinance Practitioners and also worked on the Microfinance Standards as a Member of the Microfinance Committee under the Kenya Bureau of Standards Financial Services Standards. Giving to the community is at the core of her engagements and she currently oversees the Old Mutual Foundation where she is also a trustee. In personal capacity she volunteers at Chosen Children of Promise, an NGO in Kawangware slums in Nairobi, where she supports education for orphans as her part in finding solutions to societal challenges.
John Kashangaki

John has over 30 years experience in providing consulting services to large-scale private sector development programs ($5-$50 million USD) funded by entities including IFAD, USAID, AGRA, DFID, amongst others.  He has extensive experience in managing initiatives to expand finance and investment into the African continent.  Over the past five years, he has provided leadership for two initiatives (Sustainable Urban Economic Development Programme SUED) funded by the British Government and Kenya Investment Mechanism (KIM) that have mobilized over $300 million of investment into key sectors of the Kenyan economy.  John’s competence includes: practice in strategic and business planning for both small and larger organizations; analysis of agricultural and other value chains; working in strategy microfinance institution development; financial sector analysis and diagnostics; advising financial institutions on strategies to enhance agricultural and other forms of lending.  

John holds an Advanced Degree in Economics and Public Policy from Princeton University. 

Judy Omumbo

Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS), Dr. Omumbo began her career in epidemiology in 1995 working as part of the Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust Collaborative Programme in Kenya.In 2002 she was awarded a Wellcome Trust Prize studentship scholarship to undertake a D.Phil. at the University of Oxford in modelling the spatial risks of Plasmodium falciparum in East Africa.

When she completed her D.Phil. in 2005 she moved to Columbia University’s International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) in Palisades where she was an Associate Research Scientist with IRI’s Africa Program until 2011. Her research interests involve promoting the use of evidence-based decision making for disease control in Africa. Judy holds a PhD in Epidemiology (Oxford University, UK), an MPH (Hebrew University, Israel) and a Bachelor’s degree in Dentistry from University of Nairobi
Dr. Andrew Nyandigisi

Dr. Andrew Nyandigisi is a health professional with over 17 years of experience in designing and managing public health programs in Kenya. Dr. Nyandigisi worked for 10 years with the Ministry of Health (MoH) where he was part of the team that designed the functions of the two levels of government prior to service devolution. As part of the technical leads in the MoH, he was one of the change agents that oversaw the review and design of the National Malaria Strategy. He was also part of the core team that developed the Community Strategy currently used in implementing community health services.

He also served as MoH partnerships and resource mobilization focal person, where he developed a wide stakeholder network as he coordinated the work of a diverse range of donors, IPs, and government agencies and managed grants provided by CDC, USAID, Global Fund to fight HIV, TB and Malaria (GFATM), World Bank, DFID/UKAID, and UNICEF. In this position, he was also successful in lobbying The National Treasury to increase its level of counterpart funding as a means of sustaining gains made in the health system by donor funded programs. Dr Nyandigisi is an active member of the Kenya Healthcare Federation’s health financing committee tasked with defining the role of the private sector in attaining universal healthcare. 

Dr Nyandigisi was also involved in evaluating the Kenya Medical Supplies Agency in 2010 as part of an audit by The Global Fund and USAID on capacity to effectively handle and deliver donor funded commodities for HIV, TB and malaria. In addition, he designed and implemented the first ever quality of care assessment for monitoring quality of malaria case management. This assessment was recognized as a best practice by the WHO Regional Office and was rolled out in other African countries.

Dr Nyandigisi is the current Chief Executive Officer at Health Strat where he as served as principal investigator (PI) for several PEPFAR funded grants over the last 9 years. He continues to provide oversight and ensure technical and financial compliance of projects implemented across all 47 counties with over 500 staff and funding levels of $25M. He holds an MSc in Health Economics and Policy, MBA in Strategic Management and Bachelor of Pharmacy.