Turning The Lights On With Chad Larson

Turning The Lights On With Chad Larson

Chad Larson is one of the three founders of the Kenyan solar power start-up M-KOPA Solar. He serves as the company’s Finance Director and Chief Credit Officer and has lived in Nairobi with his wife and three boys since the company launched in 2011. Chad is a qualified CFA and an Oxford MBA who previously served as the CFO of the Africap Microfinance Investment Fund, based in Johannesburg, and prior to that, he spent 10 years in the investment banking division of Bank of America in Sydney and New York, working on fixed income, structured finance, and derivative transactions. M-KOPA Solar is aiming to be a $1 billion company by providing pay-as-you-go energy to off-grid homes. To that end, the company successfully closed a $19 million round of financing led by Generation Investment Management LLP in December 2015. Theme music by Brian Lupiya. Used with permission. Additional music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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From Punk Rocker To Tech VC With Brandon Doyle

From Punk Rocker To Tech VC With Brandon Doyle

After being at the helm of Africa’s largest Technology, Media, and Telecommunications (TMT) sector focused fund manager for nearly a decade, Brandon Doyle seems to have thoroughly shed any visible tra...

5 Elo 201554min

Pursuing Excellence With Dominique Collett

Pursuing Excellence With Dominique Collett

Many of us can relate to being let down, or at least disillusioned with our careers when we were in our early twenties. In the latest instalment of African Tech Conversations, Dominique Collett-Antoli...

29 Heinä 201543min

Finding Your Voice With Matsi Modise

Finding Your Voice With Matsi Modise

By her own admission, Matsi Modise, does not look a day over 25. But you would do well not to underestimate this 30 year-20old executive who has recently been appointed Managing Director of SiMODiSA--...

22 Heinä 201541min

Business Is About People With Oresti Patricios

Business Is About People With Oresti Patricios

Oresti Patricios co-founded Ornico Group in 1984, aka the year I was born. While incredibly disruptive in its time, the video reel production business Oresti operated back then is a far cry from the m...

30 Kesä 201517min

Do The Right Thing With Mteto Nyati

Do The Right Thing With Mteto Nyati

Mteto Nyati is no stranger to playing ball at the highest level in Africa’s corporate scene. His resume is pretty impressive. Studying at Yale, executive posts and directorships at companies like IBM,...

23 Kesä 201536min

Start and Make Stuff with Justin Spratt

Start and Make Stuff with Justin Spratt

What do you get when a Microsoft geek and an IBM nerd fall in love and make a baby? Justin Spratt, that's what. Discover how Justin (Quirk MD Africa) went from being a curious, ten-year-old “hacker” i...

9 Kesä 201530min

Learning From Failure with Trevor Wolfe

Learning From Failure with Trevor Wolfe

A short while ago, we sat Trevor Wolfe down for a quiet chat. Trevor is Managing Director of crowdsourcing company Springleap. We find out how this achievement-oriented, American millennial has manage...

3 Kesä 201548min