DIRECTOR OF PRODUCT & AI @ WOWZI · EX-GOOGLE
Building world-class and human-centered products, from Nairobi to Silicon Valley.
12+ years of product and innovation: digital transformation and financial identity for 20M+ users in Latin America, privacy infrastructure at Google, digital 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 platform and creator app. Running mid-distance most mornings. Shipping movietonight.ai on weekends.
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