Gideon Kyalo (GK)

Regional Director, Africa at Unumed
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(386) 825-5501
Location
Nairobi County, Kenya, KE

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Experience

    • Denmark
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Regional Director, Africa
      • Jan 2022 - Present

    • Country Director, Kenya
      • Feb 2018 - Jan 2022

    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • SMART Field Advisor
      • Jan 2020 - Mar 2020

      Acting as a Field Advisor for The Student Multidisciplinary Applied Research Teams (SMART) Program.SMART is of the Emerging Markets Program (EMP) in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, College of Business at Cornell University.SMART brings together teams of both graduate and undergraduate students, faculty, and staff from across the university and pairs them with small companies, organizations, and community groups located in developing countries and emerging economies.

    • Denmark
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Director, Product Management
      • May 2015 - Mar 2017

      Management of our product development entailing interfacing between the engineers and the clients.Key Milestones:1. Commercial Launch of Unucare, the software.2. Introduction of agile methodology in our product development.

    • Director
      • Nov 2013 - May 2015

      Having just founded Unumed together with my partners, I played a hybrid role that was more of the bridge between our software engineers and the market.Internally, I would co-run the Kenyan office on top of collecting specifications for our minimum viable product that was to be released in 2016.I also took lead in building and documenting the specifications for the ERP part of the system. These included building specifications for Sales, Purchases, Insurance Claims, Procurement, Inventory, Banking, HR, Payroll and Asset Management modules.Externally, I would be involved in business development activities and concept creation together with my business development co-directors.

    • Cofounder | Head of Business Development
      • May 2012 - Nov 2013

      iDaktari was an administrative software specifically tailored to manage patient information, insurance claims and appointment reminders for clinics in Kenya. It was built from the ground up having made our first sale while it was still a concept on paper.Roles and Responsibilities:Strategy and business development.SalesFormalization of user specifications. Beta and alpha testingAdministration, finance, and accounting.Fundraising and investor pitching.

Education

  • Kenyatta University
    Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science
    2009 - 2013
  • Lenana School
    High School Diploma
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