Evah Kimani is currently the CEO and Principal Officer, Britam Connect, she is a passionate and experienced products & partnerships expert with over 15 years’ experience and a strong footprint in ICT, Digital Channel and Products Marketing roles.
She has worked across telco, ICT and FSI industries leading teams and portfolios responsible for building and growing new revenues, customer-focused digital solutions and channels, and cross-sector shared-value partnerships.
Kimani begin her career at Airtel Kenya as a business support analyist where she supported for the operation of Oracle Financials in the entire business. Roles included developing reports, developing interfaces to other systems, training &supporting all users, creating and following up requests, coordinating period ends closures and she also developed products for the prepaid customers such as airtime sharing (Me2U), product for customer activation and support.
She also moved to working as a sales account manager at Sybase where she was responsible for meeting sales goals and overall quality of service, Managing the sales funnel and closing the sale, Handling the marketing and advertising for the organization ATL and BTL.
Evah continued her journey at Safaricom Ltd where she held two positions, she started there as VAS Projects Manager where she ensured Product Management for the Value Added Services (VAS) then later promoted to Senior Manager – Internet Projects & Mobile Advertising where she was responsible for delivering revenues, strategy formulation, products development and content acquisition for 3G data in the organization and managing the team dynamics.
She also became the Country head Futaa.com at Viborg Kenya then later moved to join Telkom Kenya as Head of Products & Services where she was responsible for products and innovation portfolio leadership and KPIs, and also ensuring that the team produces effective results
She joined Mahindra Comviva as a Senior Business Development Manager after which she moved to Britam where she has held different positions, Head of Digital & Direct Channels, Director , Partnerships & Digital and is currently the Chief Executive Officer – Britam Micro Insurance (Connect)
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Evah Kimani is an Agile Mobile expert, with a results driven mentality. Working through teams to deliver consumer innovations in the Mobile arena – Telco, Financial and Digital. Sound Business acumen and an excellent partnerships formulator with excellent negotiating skills to deliver a win-win. Exceptional leadership, organizational, interpersonal, analytical, and problem resolution skills.
Amongst many accolades, Kimani won Insurance Personality of the Year at the 2nd edition of the prestigious InstinctWomen Conference and Awards (IWCA) in Kenya, while her organization bagged “Innovation in Women’s Health Insurance” award at the same event
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