Brighton Kithendu

Brighton Kithendu is a Transformation & Innovation Leader helping organisations solve complex problems around Business Strategy, Transformation and Technology. He is both a Tech professional and a Tech entrepreneur with experience cutting across Management Consulting | Strategy & Innovation | Business & Digital Transformation | Technology Security & Risk Advisory. He has led largescale business and digital transformation initiatives and also provided assurance and advisory services to both big corporates and tech startups across EMEA in diverse sectors across healthcare, financial services, hospitality, manufacturing, ICT and public sector.

Brighton works with Silicon Savannah(Kenya) and the broader Pan-African tech startups & entrepreneurship ecosystem, spearheading Africa leapfrogging capability to solve truly meaningful problems across the continent using technology-as an angel investor, venture builder & capitalist and a thought leader. Under the auspice of Pekeza, a Pan-African venture builder for novel tech startups that are solving truly important problems around healthcare, food security and education. He is also a public speaker across EMEA on key domains around technology, startups, innovation & entrepreneurship. He holds B.Eng. Electrical & Telecommunications Engineering and currently a PhD Researcher of Business Innovation and Technology Management; and a part time Lecturer at JKUAT.