AFRICA - Key Persons
Evan is a former JPM stock broker who spent the last six years in the NYC startup ecosystem across a variety of roles at a VC and VC-backed startup. Most recently, Evan was the Director of Growth at Bowery Capital where he worked with seed-stage founders on their sales, marketing, and customer success strategies. Previously, Evan built a GTM team as the Director of Strategic Partnerships at Rocketrip, a Series C travel tech startup.
Mali Safi is from Sheng, a dialect of Kiswahili spoken by urban youth. It translates to "Good Property." It refers to anything that is of excellent quality. For example, you can commonly hear it from a proud, second-hand clothes shop owner describing his clothes.