Team

Our team is a small but powerful one with a vision of providing life changing solutions that will have a positive impact on the lives of rural people all over the world.

Made up of diverse cultural and professional backgrounds, we believe the sum of our parts, combined with our will to win makes for an unstoppable team. We wake up each morning enamoured by how we are making a difference in the world through the work we do.

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  Vivian Vendeirinho

  Founder and Managing Director, Vivian is a pervasively positive Portuguese/South African engineer with a seasoned technology business development, sales and marketing resume. Proven revenue generating and business management experience across Europe, United States, Japan and developing markets like Eastern Europe and South Africa. Vivian speaks 5 languages, lives in Madrid and is passionate about Africa.

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  Omar Ely

  Omar Ely was born in Altadena, California to beat/hippy parents. Mr. Ely focused on arts, humanities and architecture at University. Following University he spent several years building and breaking workstations for Architecture Projects / Firms when lack of tools in the computing space pushed Omar into making a few of his own. Mr. Ely has strong experience in hardware and software development and testing and has over 15 years experience working in Architecture. Mr. Ely has proven competence in developing solutions in IT, Product Design, and device integration.Today Omar lives in Paris, France with his wife, and has one son attending University.

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  Maria Burpee

  A US national with a proven technology-marketing resume ranging from automotive and embedded systems to B2B technology. Maria’s creativity and experience drives integrated marketing communications campaigns and innovative go-to-market strategies that deliver results. Maria speaks 2 languages and lives in Madrid, Spain.

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  Adrian Mwai

  A Kenyan national, Adrian’s expertise is in the design and execution of Engineering projects, including the likes of large scale power plants, pump stations and distribution systems. A Mechatronic Eng. Degree from JKUAT-Nairobi, Adrian speaks English and Kiswahili.

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  Abagi "Irene" Nyamolo

  Irene is a Sustainable Energy and Development enthusiast. She has experience managing solar energy projects in Kenya and Rwanda. She holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from New Mexico State University (U.S.). She speaks 4 languages and currently lives in Kenya. She hopes to see as much of the world documenting each moment with her new found love – her SLR camera.

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  Des Mc Carthy

  Des Mc Carthy has worked in IT since the mid 1980′s. He has worked both in Ireland and abroad in UK, USA, Spain, India on a variety of IT and internet based projects. In Ireland, Des worked for RTE, the national television broadcaster, and spearheaded the development of their internet services. He has also been involved in various EU online/media projects, which took him to Israel, Copenhagen, Berlin and Paris.

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  Jennifer Peters

  A former Human Resources Director with the L’Oréal group, Jennifer is an established executive with specialisations in recruitment, employer branding, as well as organisational design, merger/acquisition and talent management. During her tenure at L’Oréal she held HR roles in various markets including United States, France and the United Kingdom. She is currently working with the organisation pro-bono on a variety of funding grant, marketing and HR activities.Jennifer currently lives in Madrid with her husband Darren and their dog, Lucy.

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  Miguel Garcia

  A Spanish national born in the Canary Islands, Miguel’s background as a chemical engineer saw him develop his thesis on the study of decomposition ratios of organic material under UV radiation. He is completing his executive MBA with one of the world’s leading executive MBA schools: Instituto de Empresa in Madrid who lays strong focus on their Social Entrepreneurship focused curriculum. Miguel speaks 4 languages and lives in Madrid.