TEDxNairobi 2025 Speakers

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Adam Camenzuli

Co-Founder of Karibu Solar Power

Adam Camenzuli is an entrepreneur, diplomat and CFO with over 15 years of experience across East and Southern Africa. He co-founded KARIBU Solar Power and has held CFO roles across multiple sectors and recently led a $21 million capital raise for a pan-African healthcare and distribution company. He holds the CFA, CAIA, and CBV designations. Fluent in Swahili, he also manages a 50-acre farm in Malawi and supports mission-driven businesses through strategic finance and operational guidance.

Becca Katz

Co-founder of Good Natured Learning

Becca Katz is an educator, edupreneur, mother, partner, friend, nature-lover, writer, and activist. Hundreds of days spent traveling in remote wildernesses from the Arctic to the Andes showed her that human-nature connections are essential for people and our planet. Becca co-founded Good Natured Learning to equip educators to integrate “apple-a-day” nature connections into their routine teaching practices in schools. Becca holds degrees from Stanford and writes mothering Nature. She lives in Nairobi with her husband, daughters, and sweet old dog.

Catherine Muraga

Managing Director of Microsoft ADC

Catherine currently works as the Managing Director of Microsoft, Africa Development Centre; a software Development center that builds some of Microsoft’s Products used globally. She is well versed with the Technology(IT) landscape having led and worked with team across different sectors; Manufacturing,, Aviation, Banking, and the Technology industry.

Prior to Joining Microsoft, ADC,she was part of the Executive leadership team and led digital transformation at Stanbic bank Kenya/ South Sudan as Head, Engineering and at Sidian Bank as Director, It and Operations. Catherine is passionate about using technology to create business outcomes, a champion for inclusion of more women in technology and growing tech talent in Kenya and Africa.

Ciku Kimeria

Strategy Specialist/ Author and Writer

Ciku Kimeria is an author, journalist, communications and strategy specialist, and adventurer who has traveled to 60 countries, half in Africa. She writes fiction and non-fiction spotlighting untold African stories and hosts The Griot’s Path, a podcast uncovering the continent’s hidden histories. An Opinion Columnist at Bloomberg and former Quartz Africa editor, she has also written for African Arguments, OkayAfrica, and The Africa Report. She speaks English, Swahili, and French, and holds a B.Sc. in Management from MIT.

Hannes Van den Eeckhout

Founder of Rootical

Hannes has 15 years of experience in agroecology and purpose-driven entrepreneurship to transform food systems in Europe, Latin America and East Africa. He founded Rootical in Uganda, a venture studio to build and finance regenerative agri-food companies. Before that, he worked for five years in Peru strengthening farmer networks and the agroecology transition, and five years scaling a direct food sales e-commerce platform in Belgium and the Netherlands, which grew to €12 million in annual sales in these markets.

Laila Macharia

Investor, Mentor, Futurist

Dr Laila Macharia, Aspen Initiative Africa – Nairobi
Raised in Kenya, Namibia and Somalia, Laila Macharia is the Founding Director of the Aspen Initiative Africa – Nairobi. AIA is dedicated to advancing the Aspen Institute’s 75-year legacy driving change through dialogue, leadership and action to help solve the greatest challenges of our time.

A serial entrepreneur and investor, Dr. Laila also leads the Africa Programs at Imaginable Futures, a philanthropic initiative of the Omidyar Group, and serves on a number of leading corporate boards including Centum, an investment company listed on the East Africa Stock Exchange.

Macharia has been honored as one of the Top 100 Kenyans, a Fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network (AGLN) and one of the Times of London’s Top 20 Women to Watch in Africa.

Megha Dutta

Executive Creative Director Partnership Africa

Megha Dutta is a creative leader who believes great ideas don’t just sell, they change culture. Megha Dutta is an advertising writer and storyteller who has spent her career helping brands find their voice. As Executive Creative Director at The Partnership Africa | Publicis, she has led award-winning campaigns for global brands, startups, and social enterprises alike.She is an advocate for purposeful creativity and believes advertising isn’t just about selling products, but about shaping culture and belonging. Megha’s work blends sharp insights with humanity, reminding us that in the attention economy, the stories we choose to tell, and how we tell them, matter more than ever.

Muthoni Karimi

COO EarthEnable

Muthoni is a purpose-driven leader and social entrepreneur dedicated to restoring dignity to communities. With a career in leadership, innovation, and social impact, she blends sharp business strategy with operational excellence. As COO at EarthEnable, she tackles Africa’s housing crisis through sustainable, affordable, healthy solutions. A Mother and Founder of Thrive and Nurture, she champions mothers in business and the workplace. A visionary in boardrooms and the field, Muthoni leads with heart, bold ideas, and a commitment to justice.

Ngugi Karega

CEO of PromptBI

Ngugi is an entrepreneur by profession and a traveler by natural inclination. After building and selling his first startup in India, and losing everything in the process, he stepped away from business to search for deeper meaning. That journey led him to spend two years as a monk, immersing himself in Eastern philosophies, meditation, and simplicity.

A lover of Bollywood music and Indian languages, Ngugi speaks four of them and once cycled for four months from the northern to the southern tip of India. When he’s not building ventures or exploring new cultures, you’ll probably find him humming along to his favorite song, Logical by Supertramp.

Oğuzcan Yerli

Country Director of Turkish Airlines

Oguzcan Yerli is a Country Director for Turkish Airlines with extensive international leadership experience. Since 2009, he has worked in the aviation industry, and since 2016 he has served abroad across several African countries. He holds a PhD in Communication Science, an MBA, and an MSc in International Business. His career focuses on global aviation management and brand communication, with a strong commitment to connecting people and cultures through travel.

Sahar Jamal

Founder of Maziwa

Sahar Jamal is an entrepreneur, growth coach, and angel investor passionate about maternal health and women’s economic empowerment. As founder of Maziwa, she is dedicated to ensuring Kenyan mothers never have to choose between breastfeeding and earning a living. Maziwa’s breast pumps, co-created with hundreds of Kenyan mothers, enable women to express milk discreetly in any work environment, while its Community Breastfeeding Ambassador program democratizes access to lactation support in underserved communities.

Beyond her company, Sahar empowers women through coaching and angel investing. Her growth coaching blends intuitive self-discovery with practical strategies, integrating spiritual and somatic modalities for deeper alignment. She also invests in female micro-entrepreneurs and women-led SMEs across the continent.

With over a decade in the women’s health sector—including roles at Johnson & Johnson, Reckitt Benckiser, and Jacaranda Health—Sahar is a Global Good Fund Fellow, Acumen Fellow, and Meaningful Business 100 honoree. She holds an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and dual degrees in Commerce and Arts from Queen’s University.

Zainab Jagani

Deep transformational Coach

Zainab Jagani is a Deep Transformational Coach and self-development workshop facilitator who has been guiding personal growth journeys since 2018, integrating deep coaching in 2022. A trained Mental Health First Aider, she combines emotional awareness with practical tools to help individuals move from surviving to thriving. Passionate about self-leadership, Zainab creates spaces for people to connect with their authentic selves, unlocking potential and personal power while fostering meaningful conversations that drive individual and collective evolution.