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Catherine Gitonga
Chief Executive Officer
Catherine is an enterprise and business development expert with over 18 years of experience strengthening MSMEs across Eastern Africa, and Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Smart Regional Consultants since 2012.
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Catherine is an enterprise and business development expert with over 18 years of experience strengthening MSMEs across Eastern Africa, and Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Smart Regional Consultants since 2012.
She specialises in business development services, investor readiness, market and financial linkages, market assessments and enterprise ecosystem analysis, with deep operating experience in arid and semi-arid and refugee-hosting counties including Turkana (Kakuma and Kalobeyei), Marsabit, Wajir, Isiolo, Samburu and Garissa.
She has led multi-donor assignments for USAID, the World Bank, FCDO, FAO, GIZ, IFC, Palladium, the IKEA Foundation, the Mastercard Foundation, ANDE, CARE and KCB Foundation. Current engagements include the FAO CASHA programme reaching 46,000 youth and women across 15 ASAL counties and the CARE SheConnects Digital Inclusion Accelerator targeting 20,000 women in trade in Isiolo and Marsabit.
Executive MBA, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology; Bachelor of Education (Science), Egerton University. Member of the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) and the Association of Startup and SME Enablers of Kenya (ASSEK).