Leadership Team
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Grant Gordon
CEO & Founder
Grant has 15 years of experience developing new innovations in low- and middle-income countries. He was most recently the Senior Director for Innovation at the International Rescue Committee, where he helped build a 50+ R&D team and supported portfolios in malnutrition and maternal and neonatal health. Grant has worked in leadership positions in development sector and has extensive experience building high-performing teams across Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Fre Tachea
CTO & Co-founder
Fre has worked in fermentation technology for 18 years. Most recently, she was the Director of Fermentation at Culture Biosciences, a series C startup valued at $500M, where she led large scale bioreactor builds and established and oversaw a team of engineers to accelerate bioprocessing using high-throughput bioreactors. She has managed more than 50 company’s fermentation processes and developed large bio-process engineering teams.
Ignatius Kirimi
Managing Director
Ignatius has 20 years of experience building and overseeing manufacturing plants in East Africa. Ignatius was the COO of Uganda Batteries LtD where he oversaw diverse production lines and an operational staff of 500 employees. He previously managed Nestle production facility in Kenya and served as the GM for Toyota Tsusho Fertilizer. He has overseen multiple multi-million-dollar manufacturing plant builds.
