Eddy is a visionary business leader, fintech entrepreneur, and climate advocate. He founded Ongoza, an SME incubator, Anywair Group, a fintech provider of micro asset loans, and Treeco Fund which promotes agroforestry activities in rural areas. He is a graduate of Yale University, Trinity College, African Leadership Academy, and Friends School Kamusinga. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Public Policy at the University of Nairobi.

Eddy brings a vast international network and development experience into the Kenyan Senate. He was the youngest speaker and first panel leader at the 2012 G8 Summit that culminated into one of the largest agricultural production investments in Africa by the Obama Administration. Eddy has been recognized with the 2012 Impact Award from the Kenyan US Diaspora, the 2013 Africa Village’s Top 30 Under 30 Most Inspirational Young People on the African continent, and Salt’s 2015 top 30 under 30 most innovative and influential youth in Africa.

Eddy is passionate about governance and is an enthusiastic collaborator. In the past, he has worked on various community action projects with British Council, World Economic Forum, Graca Machel Trust, among others. He was in the select Equity Bank’s CEO’s task force that restructured the Bank’s Pre-University Program in 2009 and consulted as the first Think Tank on youth engagement strategy for the MasterCard Foundation’s head office in Toronto, Canada in 2011/2012. He was also part of the professional committee that structured and established the 2nd Kenyan Prime Minister’s Youth Round Table in 2010.