Board of Directors

Paul ASAMBA is currently a co-founder and managing director of Loiren Foods limited. Prior Paul ASAMBA served as the head of business support and recoveries at Barclays bank of Kenya (2008-2017), Senior manager business support at Barclays bank of Kenya (2017), senior manager business support at Barclays Africa (2004-2006), Head of corporate credit at Kenya commercial bank (2002-2004), Head of corporate support at Kenya commercial bank (2001-2002), joined the bank on the management development program (1991-2002).

Simon has served as Pioneer head of Micro banking at KCB Bank group, Head of Micro credit at Equity Bank Kenya Limited and Micro Credit Officer at Cooperative bank of Kenya. He currently works as Managing Partner and Investment Director at Progression Capital Africa Limited. He is a holder of a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting Option).

Currently serving as Chief Executive Officer of Soras Vie one of the leading insurance company in Rwanda and has served in various leadership positions in the insurance industry in Rwanda. Mr. Jean Chrysostome Hodari holds a bachelor's degree in social sciences from Kigali Independent University with lots of training and experience in the insurance industry.

Result-oriented investment professional with extensive experience in Sub Saharan Africa capital markets. Demonstrated high comfort level working in ambiguous and evolving situations. Country experience: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana and Ethiopia. Currently, Incofin IM - private equity manager Africa. Mr. Kevin Kamemba has held various positions of leadership in investment vehicles.

Marie Louise KAGAJU has served as the chief internal auditor, head of finance division and accounting manager at I&M bank PLC former BCR ,Prior joining I&M bank Plc Marie Louise KAGAJU served as an Internal audit manager at Bank of commerce development and industry-BCDI (actual Ecobank),Tax inquiries Team supervision at Congo Revenue Authority. She holds a bachelor's degree in Economics.

Non-executive director

Ngagi Kabarega is banking professional with more 10 years’ experience in financial services with expertise in Audit, Compliance, Enterprise Risk Management, Recoveries ; Bank operations holding senior management positions and involved in key projects in his previous banking life; Ngagi has a strong communication skill, interpersonal skill and passionate about people and change management with broad based experience in financial institutions. His current endeavour is in advisory and financial services with focus in Entrepreneurship, Mentoring and Consulting.

Kayijuka currently serves as the founder and Managing Partner of NEXUS ATTORNEYS Ltd, a vibrant Law firm in Rwanda. He is a retired senior officer from Rwanda Defense Force and a highly experienced lawyer with over 20 years of legal practice. He has been respectively the Defense lawyer for five years, the Head of Legal Department in the Ministry of Defense for one year, a Military Prosecutor for 14 years and he resumed the Bar Association 7 years ago, totaling 11 years as defense advocate and 14 years in prosecution. He has served from 1997 to date as a lecturer at various universities in Rwanda both private and public including the University of Rwanda, Institute for Legal Practice and Development (ILPD), Rwanda Military Academy and Police Academy in the field of Commercial Law, Company Law, Criminal Law and Criminal investigation. He supervised several research works at the undergraduate level in Company law and Corporate Governance, Criminal Law, Administrative Law, Evidence and other domains of Law. Kayijuka Ngabo holds a Master`s Degree (LLM) in Criminal Justice and Human Rights from the University of Aberdeen in the UK, a bachelor’s degree in Economics  and a Postgraduate Diploma in legal Practice from ILPD. He is soon completing a Bachelor`s Degree in Computer science from the Adventist University of Central Africa (AUCA). He is one of the panelists at Kigali International Arbitration Centre (KIAC) where he has chaired some completed cases. Kayijuka’s recent research interests lie in Cyber law and he is currently writing a book entitled “Cybercrimes and Digital Forensics in Rwandan context” and an article of journal entitled “The scope of MENS REA in the context of Automated Offences”.