DIRECTOR OF PRODUCT & AI, WOWZI · EX-GOOGLE
Building world-class and human-centered products, from Nairobi to Silicon Valley.
A decade of product across two hemispheres: credit for 20M users in Latin America, privacy infrastructure at Google, identity for 200M people in Africa. Now leading product and AI at Wowzi.
Nairobi, 2026
Selected work
Three products, three continents
Google · Privacy · Ads infrastructure
Ads Data Hub
A privacy-preserving data product core to Google's multi-billion publisher business.
Smile Identity · Lead PM & advisor
Identity for 200M people
KYC and biometric verification across Africa. Helped shape the 2018 seed round.
Juvo Mobile · Employee #5
Credit from telecom data
Credit-risk products in 6 Latin American markets. 20M+ users, $200M+ processed.
A decade plus, two tech ecosystems
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I keep crossing the same ocean. Each journey west taught me scale; each move home taught me empathy. The best products I've shipped came from building upon both experiences.
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Nairobi
Oct 2025 · present
Director, Product & AI
Leading the product function and AI strategy for the African creator economy. Shipped launch.wowzi.co, an SME advertiser platform that reached 300+ businesses in its first quarter. Now overhauling the advertiser dashboard and creator app.
Side projects
Nights and weekends
movietonight.ai
Built end-to-end with Codex as engineer, Claude Code as reviewer and Claude as designer. Supabase, Cloudflare, Railway, PostHog, Sentry.
emerging-market-skills
Agent skills for software that works on the other five billion phones: low-bandwidth, low-end-device-first patterns.
Mentorship & Growth
Mentoring the next cohort of product leaders
Building Data Fluency as a PM
A practical guide to reading, questioning and acting on data, from a decade of data-heavy products at Juvo, Google and Wowzi.
1:1 mentorship on ADPList
A free session on product careers, breaking into PM, or building for emerging markets.
Beyond the work
What I get up to, outside of work
Mid-distance running, recreational road biking, HIIT and basketball. The training log lives on Strava.
Follow on StravaNow · October 2026
In Nairobi, rebuilding the Wowzi advertiser dashboard and creator app. Running mid-distance most mornings. Shipping movietonight.ai on weekends.
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