Meet our mentors
Bikundo Onyari has regional and international training delivery experience in countries that include Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, South Africa, Morocco, the Netherlands and Mexico. Some of the companies he worked with include Toyota, Mitsubishi, Kuehne+Nagel, Interpel Investments, AoN, Citibank and Simba Corporation among others. Bikundo is a graduate of Social Entrepreneurship and Leadership Development and has an International Diploma in Training and Teaching.
Robert Yahweh is a designer of local (Kenya) and wide area networks with a vast knowledge and experience in open and proprietary connectivity solutions. He can help to implement cost effective and low maintenance solutions for the Small and medium enterprises where his team can act as virtual IT department allowing the organisations to concentrate on their core business. He is also a financial literacy coach.
Margaret Cichosz is the CEO and co-founder of Apartmint, Canada's newest housing platform. She graduated from the University of Waterloo with an undergraduate degree in Political Science and Business Co-op and a Master of Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology. Margaret has experience in management, business development and sales, and has been working in the tech industry for the last 5 years. She previously co-founded a tech startup and raised angel funding.
Twitter: @mcichosz
Twitter: @mcichosz
Angelica Kiboro offers support to iBiz Africa. She has been instrumental in developing the first microfinance diploma curriculum in Kenya in collaboration with Swiss Contact and the Association of Microfinance Institutions. She has also in conjunction with the World Council of Credit Union (WOCCU) developed the SWAMI program, a certificate training for credit union managers and board members. She has facilitated the training of over 1000 credit union managers and microfinance practitioners in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Malawi, Ghana, Nigeria, Botswana and South. Angelica is a graduate of the Master of Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology (MBET) program at the University of Waterloo, Canada.
Bernard Chiira is currently the Manager, iBiz Africa at Strathmore University. The responsibilities of this position involve overseeing and managing the day-to-day operations of the business incubator, developing long-term growth and sustainability strategies, spotting and helping transform great business ideas into enterprises.
Ashna Mankotia is currently working as User Experience (UX) research assistant at the Conrad Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology Centre at the University of Waterloo. She is also a 2nd year Global Business and Digital Arts student at UWaterloo's digital media campus in Stratford, Ontario. Ashna has a passion for design, marketing and project management. Her favorite thing to do is travel, and her plan is to see 100 countries in her lifetime. So far she has been to 4, including Kenya.
Twitter: @ashna_mk
Twitter: @ashna_mk
Titus Wanyoike helps develop and implement business development strategies for new accounts at Strathmore University, incorporating strategies that target different prospect types with offerings that are cyclical in nature, while allowing them to be responsive to emerging offers that will allow the department to tap new markets.
Specialties: Developing new lines of business, Product Development and Agile Project Management
Specialties: Developing new lines of business, Product Development and Agile Project Management
Mobina Basiri has had over seven years of professional experience in sales, marketing, and business development. She has previously worked at Mercedes-Benz Canada and helped develop the role of the sales concierge as well as assist in the launch of the head office Business Development Centre. She has also been involved with managing multiple start-ups in the Toronto/Waterloo region. She is currently enrolled in the Master's of Business, Entrepreneurship, and Technology (MBET) program at the University of Waterloo. She is working with a fellow MBET student to launch a communication platform for consumers and corporations.
Twitter: @MobinaBasiri1
Twitter: @MobinaBasiri1
Karin Schmidlin is the manager of the virtual incubation platform Jamii that she is currently building with her small team at the Conrad Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology Centre at the University of Waterloo. She has 15+ years of experience in design and teaches user experience (UX) at the University's digital media campus in Stratford, Ontario. She has a passion for coffee, design, pens and her students, not necessarily in that order.
Twitter: @k_arin
Twitter: @k_arin