Cynthia Wandia
Cynthia Wandia | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1986 (age 37–38) Kenya |
| Education | |
| Occupations | |
| Years active | 2009–present |
| Known for | Business Administration |
| Title | Co-Founder &CEOof Kwara Limited |
Cynthia Wandiais a Kenyanelectrical engineer,polyglot,entrepreneur,businesswomanandcorporate executive,who is thechief executive officerand co-founder ofKwara Limited,a Kenya-based online and mobile banking platform for financial cooperatives, credit unions and community banks.[1]She concurrently serves as themanaging directorofASTRA Innovations,aGerman-based enterprise that she co-founded.[2][3]
Background and education[edit]
She was born in Kenya, circa 1986.[2]She attendedAlliance Girls High Schoolin the town ofKikuyu,inKiambu County,in Kenya. She then went to theUnited Statesand enrolled inYale Universityin 2005. Cynthia graduated in 2009 with aBachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering.She followed that up with anAdvanced Management ProgramatDartmouth College.[4]
Career[edit]
Cynthia spent 6 months of 2010 inMonterrey,Mexico,serving as a business development consultant for Aceleradora de Empresas ITESM (the Business Accelerator Network at Tecnológico de Monterrey). She then moved toDüsseldorf,Germany to work withE.ON,in their global commodities division, as part of a trading qualification program. Some of the training took place inMadrid,Spain.She served in that capacity for one and one half years, until May 2012.[4]
For a period of two years and 6 months, she worked for E.ON, based inEssen,Germany, as a Fleet Performance Analyst for about half on that period, then as a Manager for Special Projects. In December 2014, she left E.ON and co-founded Astra Innovations.[4]
Astra Innovations, sources closed gas-powered and hydroelectricity power plants, buys them cheaply and sells them to Sub-Saharan, Southeast Asian and Latin American electricity producers.[3]
Other considerations[edit]
Cynthia Wandia is reported to be fluent in the English language, Spanish, French, German and Mandarin.[2]In 2018,Business Daily Africa,anEnglishdaily newspaper in Kenya, named Cynthia Wandia, one of theKenya Top 40 Under 40 Women.[2]
Her most recent enterprise, which she co-founded and for which she serves as the CEO, isKwara Limited,an online and mobile banking application that helps cooperative societies, community banks and credit unions keep up with the financial needs and positions of their members in real-time. This allows the institutions to respond faster to the needs of their members, thereby maintaining high censuses of happy customers, driving up profits in the process.[1]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^abMariama Boumanjal (11 December 2019)."Meet Kwara, a startup in the new Africa Immersion program".Google Inc.Retrieved16 February2020.
- ^abcdBusiness Daily Staff (September 2018)."Top 40 Under 40 Women In Kenya 2018"(PDF).Business Daily Africa.Nairobi.Retrieved6 October2018.
{{cite web}}:|author=has generic name (help) - ^abWharton Business School (13 April 2016)."Power Shift: An Innovative Solution for the African Energy Market".Philadelphia:Wharton School of Business.Retrieved6 October2018.
{{cite web}}:|author=has generic name (help) - ^abcCynthia Wandia (6 October 2018)."Cynthia Wandia: Co-founder & Managing Director of Astra Innovations".Linkedin.com.Retrieved6 October2018.
External links[edit]
- Making waves: Cynthia Wandia embodies the best of female fintech entrepreneurshipAs of 5 October 2020.
- 1986 births
- Living people
- 21st-century Kenyan women engineers
- 21st-century Kenyan engineers
- Kenyan electrical engineers
- 21st-century Kenyan businesswomen
- 21st-century Kenyan businesspeople
- Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science alumni
- Dartmouth College alumni
- 21st-century Kenyan women scientists
- 21st-century Kenyan scientists