Fractional CFO - Qualcare Africa Limited
(2025-07)
Qualcare Africa is an upcoming Pan-African consulting organization focusing on clinical, quality and financial capabilities improvement, and access to financing, for Healthcare Organizations organizations in Africa
- Timely preparation and presentation of Board & Committee's reports.
- Leading development and execution of finance strategy in line with the corporate strategy and objectives.
- Lead consultant in advising and supporting clients on fundraising projects.
- Lead strategic collaborations with financial institutions, equipment manufacturers, and healthcare providers to create access to affordable Medical equipment financing solutions.
- Design and implement transformational change initiatives, digital innovation, and automation of process to enhance efficiencies.
- Tracking and evaluating progress in implementation of clients' strategic plans and guiding them adapt their work plans to any changes in business environment.
- Lead consultant in financial and management consulting projects.
- Timely and accurate financial reporting and analysis and giving management insights on areas of business improvement.
- Financial planning and budgeting.
- Tax planning & compliance across all countries.
- Treasury and working capital management ensuring liquidity, accounts payables and receivables are optimized within cross border operations.
- Risk management and mitigation, ensuring robust internal controls, processes and authorization matrices are deployed and complied with.
- Design, implement evaluate, and improve finance systems, process and policies in line with accounting principles and international best practices.
- People leadership ensuring recruitment of the right talent, succession planning, mentorship, development and motivation.
- Stakeholder engagement ensuring solid relationships are built and maintained with external partners such as clients, financial institutions, statutory auditors, government agencies and regulatory bodies.
- Successfully led advisory for a Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya raising USD 50 million in debt capital.
- Currently advising a mother/child health focused hospital in Kajiado, Kenya looking to raise USD 3 million equity capital.
Financial Management Consultant - International Finance Corporation
(2023-10 - 2025-06)
IFC is part of World Bank Group focusing on private sector investments to eliminate barriers faced by entrepreneurs in accessing funding to expand their businesses.
- Guiding and advising IFC clients' to be ready for equity and/or debt investment.
- Coaching both healthcare SMES on best financial and risk management practices to drive financial sustainability of their business.
- Guiding clients on project implementation post funding access.
- Advice and train clients on budgeting, forecasting and developing actionable annual operating plans.
- Advising partner financial institutions on how to engage with healthcare SMES on how to ease access to capital.
- Training partner financial institutions on IFC funding solutions.
- Support program teams in developing and presenting project progress reports
- Jointly developed and presented project impact reports on expanding accessibility to affordable healthcare services
- Supported the AMEF team developing project extension requests.
- Supported the AMEF team developing business case to expand into new markets.
Chief Executive Officer - Meridian Health Group
(2021-10 - 2023-06)
Meridian Health Group is a leading healthcare provider operating 2 hospitals, and 12 outpatient centers in Kenya.
- Timely preparation and presentation of board reports.
- Corporate governance.
- Legal and regulatory compliance.
- Leading the organization in developing and implementation of actionable corporate, divisional and facility strategic plans and evaluating progress to ensure successful achievement of strategic objectives.
- Build and deploy cutting edge ICT and digital platforms to drive accurate decision making and innovation.
- Drive business development and revenue growth, cost optimization and profit delivery.
- Designing and deploying digital strategies that drive product innovation, create new opportunities and increase access to quality, and patient centric services.
- Identifying acquisition opportunities across East Africa.
- Drive quality and patient centric service that enhances clinical outcomes and client satisfaction.
- Leading development of annual budgets and operating plans.
- Evaluate monthly, quarterly, and annual financial and business reports against budgets and set targets and advice the senior leadership team on areas of improvement.
- Leading compliance with risk management processes.
- Leading accreditation process and quality improvement initiatives.
- Leading management teams to achieve highest levels of operational efficiency.
- Prepare investment decks for capital raising and presenting them to the board and potential investors.
- Lead due diligence activities on potential acquisitions.
- Attract, develop, and retain best in class talent across the organization while building a high performance culture.
- Leading and influencing positive organizational and culture transformation.
- ESG & impact delivery.
- Design and implement robust marketing and communication strategies.
- Develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders such as, financial institutions, auditors, industry organizations, key suppliers, clients, regulatory bodies and government agencies.
- Grew revenue by 50% in one year.
- Achieved 100% systems, people and facility turnaround in 12 months.
- Designed and deployed digital solutions thereby creating new revenue streams.
- Successfully led the process of achieving international accreditation.
- Successfully led a team of over 800 employees.
Chief Finance Officer - Avenue Healthcare Ltd
(2017-10 - 2021-09)
Avenue Healthcare is a leading healthcare provider operating multiple hospitals, outpatient centers, training, and emergency rescue services in Kenya.
- Preparing, and presenting financial, risk, and operations reports to the board and board committees and offer advice on the same.
- Custodian of all legal, company secretarial, and corporate governance matters.
- Co leading accreditation and quality improvement teams.
- Continuously provide the CEO with regular and reliable information to guide timely and accurate decision making on revenue, costs, and profitability.
- Leading and managing the finance function ensuring attraction, motivation, and retention of best in class staff in the finance department.
- Manage and ensure profitability of pre-paid medical schemes.
- Participate in developing and implementation of corporate, facility and divisional strategic plans.
- Develop and implement the finance strategy in alignment with the overall corporate strategy.
- Evaluate and advice the board and senior leadership on financial viability of proposed expansion plans.
- Own and lead implementation of capital projects, new facility construction, and asset acquisition.
- Design, implement and maintain accurate and up to date asset register.
- Lead preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual, department, branch and companywide financial and business performance reports.
- Lead financial & business analysis and measuring the same against budget and set targets and advising managers on any material deviations.
- Implement and maintain robust hospital information management system to ensure accurate billing, and complete revenue cycle management.
- Ensure timely collection of all accounts receivable.
- Together with appointed statutory auditor, carry out annual external audits, prepare and present the audited financial statements accurately and in time.
- Tax planning & compliance.
- Co-ordinate, guide and support senior leadership team and department managers in preparation, review and consolidation of annual budgets and operating plans.
- Implement robust systems and policy to ensure cost optimization and savings.
- Prudent management of treasury & working capital.
- Develop, implement and enforce robust internal controls that enable risk detection, management, and mitigation.
- Leading financial finance, tax and legal due diligence during new investments.
- Develop, manage and maintain relationships with key business partners such as insurance and corporate clients, doctors, financial institutions, auditors, lawyers, investors, and relevant government agencies.
- Improved EBITDA Margin from 7% to 18% in 1 year.
- Grew cash reserves by from KES 250m to KES 600M in 3 years.
- Designed and implemented cost management strategies resulting in 30% reduction during COVID-19 pandemic thereby avoiding job losses and pay cuts.
- Successfully created and led a cohesive team of over 46 staff in the finance department
Finance & ICT Director - Simbisa Brands Limited
(2015 - 2017)
Group Head of Finance - AAR Healthcare
(2014 - 2015)
Bharti Airtel Africa
(2011 - 2013)
