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New Joiners

       Welcome to Sokowatch

    Phoebe Shiphira Nyambura                 Thabithy Kandorro                            Benedict Mponzi
    Learning & Dev coordinator.              People and Culture Manager TZ                East Africa Promotions Manager

 Phoebe is a Corporate trainer with      Thabithy Kandorro is an outcome-oriented         Benedict Mponzi is a qualified
   in depth experience In training,       Human Resources Specialist and Lawyer       Marketing professional with extensive
  instructional design, carrying out       with more than seven years’ experience
   TNAs, training evaluation, data         in legal and social development. He has        experience in Strategy, Product
                                                                                        development and Marketing and a
 analysis, onboarding and new hire          worked successfully with NGOs such        career that spans over 10 years. He has
  orientation, blended learning and        as Tanzania Hope Alive, Tanzania Bora      worked in various industries including
  curriculum development. She has          Initiative, and Companies like Regency       FinTech, Marketing and Telecoms
 worked in the T/L&D departments           Medical Centre, ROAM- Tanzania and           where he developed new products,
across a number of organisations in       Athletics Tanzania Federation in various      introducing them to the market and
                                                                                         brought in new consumers for the
                  Kenya.                     senior HR, Legal and Management           products. He has previously worked
                                                             positions.                for AzamPay, Tigo, Scanad & ABSA
 She joins Sokowatch as a Learning
 and development coordinator. Prior         Thabithy also runs a Legal Aid Clinic                        group.
 to joining Sokowatch, she was the           every three months in Kisarawe for
 Kenya Learning and development          widows and orphans whereby he provides          He has a Masters in International
 lead with One Acre Fund, a global         will- writing services for the clients to      Business (MIB) in International
 multicultural organisation based in      protect widows and orphans from losing        Marketing from the Indian Institute
                                           property and to fight against violations        of foreign trade (IIFT) and an
            Western Kenya.                 of widows and orphans rights in Pwani        Undergraduate degree In Business
                                         Region. Also assisting sports associations      administration -Marketing - from
  Phoebe is an alumni of Kenyatta         in Tanzania for recruitment, negotiating,   Tumaini University in Tanzania. He is
  University where she completed                                                      passionate about the product life cycle
  a Bachelor of Education degree.              policy, and constitution-making.       - watching products go from ideation,
 She also holds a Masters degree in
 Project planning and management         Thabithy is currently finalizing his MBA-          to launch, to mass adoption.
from the University of Nairobi and a         Corporate Management at Mzumbe
 diploma in computer hardware and                                                        Ben is a father of two and enjoys
                                         Universities, holds Postgraduate Diploma      meeting new people, exploring new
              maintenance.                  in Management of Foreign Relations         horizons, and gaming the few times

   Outside work she loves writing          from the Mozambique-Tanzania Centre               the kids will allow him to.
articles and interior designing. She is    for Foreign Relations, Bachelor Degree
 a darling to cats and holds a strong      in Law from St Augustine University in                    Ben believes;
                                          Tanzania. Thabithy believes "The growth         “See it big, and keep it simple.”
            sense of humour.              and development of people is the highest
                                         calling of leadership." —Harvey Firestone                 Wilferd Peterson

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