Stanford University | Economics & Public Policy | Building @JIVA
A focused profile built around economics, public policy, healthcare innovation, finance, and long-horizon leadership.
I am an Economics and Public Policy student at Stanford University, where I focus on the intersection of market dynamics and scalable technology. My professional journey is defined by a commitment to solving complex structural challenges across Africa, India, and the Middle East, specifically within the health-tech and fintech sectors.
Currently, my work involves developing preventive health-tech ecosystems and leveraging algorithmic market research to drive data-centric decision-making. These initiatives are grounded in high-level internship experience across healthcare, finance, and wealth management, including roles at Lifecare Hospitals, Safaricom, and NAV Capital. These experiences have provided me with a deep understanding of how to bridge the gap between institutional finance and innovative service delivery in emerging markets.
Beyond the classroom and the office, I bring the discipline of an international athlete to my professional life. Having represented Kenya in ICC-recognized U19 international cricket, I have developed a high-pressure leadership style and a relentless focus on team-based execution.
I am a firm believer that leadership is measured by impact. To date, I have raised over $500,000 for community causes, and I remain deeply driven to create lasting, systemic change, especially for those who are unable to help themselves. My goal is to leverage my global perspective to build solutions that deliver universal social and economic benefits.
The profile consistently connects four domains: institution-building, public-interest leadership, health-tech thinking, and disciplined execution under pressure.
Writing and operating interests center on preventive care, wearables, healthcare venture capital, and the structural redesign of health ecosystems.
Work across hospitals, insurance, asset management, and entrepreneurship reflects a practical interest in how capital shapes outcomes.
From Head Boy to nonprofit fundraising to international cricket, the throughline is responsibility, composure, and follow-through.
Professional, entrepreneurial, athletic, and service roles organized as a coherent operating history instead of a flat list.
Building at the intersection of healthcare, prevention, and early-stage venture creation.
Top order batsman | Left-arm off-spinner.
Worked with the Lifecare Foundation to support children from underprivileged backgrounds, including families of fallen police officers. Helped students access accommodation, meals, and study materials, improving grades and securing admission to top public schools. Organized outreach events and luncheons to expand impact nationwide.
At Jumpstrt, I lead the intersection of long-term vision and daily execution. My focus is on building the financial and strategic frameworks that allow us to scale sustainably.
Long-term involvement in temple operations, stewardship, and community continuity.
I had the privilege of representing the Kenyan U19 cricket team as an all-rounder, contributing as a middle-order batter and left-arm orthodox bowler. During my time with the team, I participated in several key international tours, including:
Exposure to hospital finance and operating structures inside a real healthcare environment.
Led the student body in the final year of school leadership, culminating in the transition of responsibility to the next Head Boy and upper school leadership.
Insurance-focused research experience reflected across health insurance, commercial insurance, and research skill endorsements.
These roles are explicitly referenced across the skills section of the profile and round out the finance, healthcare, telecom, and investment side of the experience base.
Leadership measured by impact, sharpened by markets, and executed with the discipline of an international athlete.
The academic arc combines elite formal education, mathematical research exposure, critical thinking programs, and long-term school leadership.
Activities and societies: Stanford Club Cricket.
Activities and societies: Mathematical research & analysis.
I spent several weeks learning mathematical theories from Riemann's Integrals to Linear Algebra, completing the course by writing a dissertation on Linear Algebra content in collaboration with a...
Activities and societies: Artificial Intelligence - advancements, benefits and its propensity to take over human thinking.
Activities and societies: Student Council - Deputy President, cricket and hockey team A player, charity organisation and class topper.
Community work, digital transformation, education access, and institution-building projects shown with clear outcomes and context.
Worked with the Lifecare Foundation to support children from underprivileged backgrounds, many from families missing one or both parents. The initiative helps students improve their academic performance, gain admission into competitive public schools, and access accommodation, food, and study materials, creating opportunities for long-term educational and personal growth.
Led the digital transformation of temple finances, introducing an app and USSD donation platform that enabled international contributions and improved financial transparency. The initiative resulted in the first positive financial year in over a decade, setting a new foundation for sustainable growth and community engagement.
Led a student-driven project that raised KSh 4.5 M (≈USD 40 K) personally and USD 150 K as a team to fund the construction and renovation of classrooms, a library, and essential facilities in Naro Moru. Organized food supply drives and partnered with local leaders to ensure long-term community impact.
Founded and led the first-ever school charity walk, personally raising over USD 20,000 and mobilizing a team effort that generated over USD 50,000 to support communities affected by insecurity in rural regions such as Turkana. The project's success established it as an annual school tradition, continuing to drive awareness and sustainable impact each year.
Healthcare commentary and policy-oriented writing centered on structural reform, prevention, and emerging-market health systems.
Medium · Feb 8, 2026
For a long time, wearables have been treated as consumer tools. Step counts, sleep scores, activity rings. Useful, sometimes motivating, but rarely taken seriously by healthcare systems.
Hospitals, in particular, tend to see them as peripheral. Interesting data, perhaps, but not something central to care delivery. The assumption has long been that meaningful health information is generated inside clinics, through tests, scans, and consultations.
I think that view is fundamentally flawed. Not because wearables replace hospitals or clinicians, but because they capture something hospitals, by design, cannot: time.
Medium · Feb 5, 2026
Coming to Stanford and being exposed to how emergency and preventative health technologies are designed pushed me to question why chronic care remains so structurally constrained back home.
This piece reflects on chronic care in East Africa, not just through outcomes, but through what happens between clinic visits, and why continuity remains one of the region's hardest problems to solve.
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Abstract: The global healthcare landscape is currently witnessing a structural "leapfrog" effect in emerging markets, with Africa positioned at the center of the digital health surge.
Public profile highlights also show active engagement with operators, founders, and healthcare leaders.
Shared reflections on speaking with Sami Inkinen, highlighting curiosity around healthcare transformation and company-building.
Wrote about hearing from Julie Yoo, GP at a16z and investing in healthcare, with emphasis on how AI shifts labor budgets toward software and infrastructure.
Reflected on a conversation with David Rhew, M.D., and Dan Desmond around preventative healthcare, continuous monitoring, and why early intervention matters in chronic care.
Coursework visible on the profile points strongly toward health systems, venture building, policy, economics, anatomy, and quantitative thinking.
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A multilingual profile spanning native fluency across several contexts and working proficiency in French.
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