| Intro | Kenyan Social Entrepreneur, Market Innovator | ||||||||||
| Known for | Known for running Oil & Gas Company, SafiriPesa and inventing Free Motor | ||||||||||
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Innovator |
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Kenya |
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| Type |
Business |
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| Gender | male | ||||||||||
| Birth | 17 July 1988, Kenya | ||||||||||
| Age: | 32 years | ||||||||||
| Residence | Nairobi, Kenya | ||||||||||
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Kevin Owino, is a mathematician, social entrepreneur and businessman in Kenya. He is the founder and chief executive officer of SafiriPesa, an on demand logistic that aims to employees 20 million youths as agents and as well makes delivery of goods or services between business to business or to customer or just anyone delivering anything within Kenya cheaper, faster and utmost secure through use of technology. He founded SafiriPesa in 2017.
Contents
- Background and education
- Career
- Other considerations
Background and education
Kevin was born in Kenya and attended primary school in Migori Primary School and later on joined St. Pius Uriri High School. Then attended Kenyatta University, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics (Statistics).
Career
Following his graduation from Kenyatta University, Kevin was hired by E-Net Publisher in Kenya which dealt with creations of online learning material and other more digital contents for primary and secondary students, where he learnt about animation, video and audio editing, software development. Here is where he got interested in knowing more about technology and software development. He later on joined Bridge International Academies where he gained more experience on data management and impact of technology on people live. He joined Eneza Education, a more advanced software oriented educational company which spread education everywhere online. From these experience is where he got more lost in starting his our start-up.
He started SafiriPesa an on-demand logistic company, as CEO in July 2017 after working in Texas Energy Limited (Oil Marketing Company) for 1 year raising enough needed initial capital. He started the project with his former classmate in Kenyatta University, Eva Dama Mwakazi as COO, Fredrick Genicho as CTO and her sister Vivian Meriz as the CMO. We launched our first operational application on January 2019 then launched the operational mobile application on November 2019.
He also started also Xenom Energy in May 2019, an energy startup for B2B supply chain and sales of petroleum products. Which current he is in the stage of building the platform.
Other considerations
Mr. Owino concurrently serves as the chief Operations Officer of Fuel Link Energy Limited, an oil marketing company in Kenya which is working also on developing FuelPay, an energy end to end supply chain application which will enable 2,000 independent station owners in Kenya to get access to fuel, inventory management, loan and expansion loan as well. This is still at pilot stages.