Dan Awendo

Dan is a Certified Public Accountant, Management Consultant, Financial Analyst and an Advanced Management Program graduate of Strathmore Business School and IESE Business School in Spain.

Mr. Awendo has over 20 years of post qualification experience in audit, accounting, management consultancy, corporate finance and entrepreneurship and has worked in senior management positions in both local and international companies and has been a board member of various companies and learning institutions in Kenya.

Dan is the founder and previously the CEO of Investeq Capital, a company that focuses on the unique environment of financing Small & Medium sized business in East Africa. Investeq Capital has spent the last 12years developing and financing SMEs through the provision of innovative short-term trade and other related working capital finance as an alternative to traditional banking and/or capital market solutions.  Through his leadership, Dan led Investeq Capital to win both local and continental awards in Strategy, Leadership, Customer Orientation, Financial Performance and Entrepreneurship.

He has also previously been named by The Business Daily as amongst Kenya’s “High Impact Entrepreneurs” and also amongst Kenya’s “CEO’s with Golden Hands”. He has also been profiled by The Standard Newspaper as a “Captain of Industry”.

Dan is a founder board member and has served in the Finance and Business Development committees at Home Afrika.