Isaac is a Senior Manager in M-PESA Product Development at Safaricom (Kenya), leading the innovation arm of M-PESA - the global leader in mobile money. With a formal job description of driving Strategic Initiatives, he has the overall responsibility of ensuring M-PESA becomes the key to transforming lives of the many Kenyans who use M-PESA daily for both money transfer and payments. This puts financial inclusion and social transformation at the heart of every initiative carried out by the department. Use of M-PESA for low-mid value payments has seen a rapid growth in the electronic payments in Kenya opening up businesses to cashless distribution models and steering innovation in E&M-Commerce. Isaac has been leading the API strategy for M-PESA since July 2015 which has already started creating exponential growth in mobile payments and dependent innovation including international money transfer and business to business payments. He also represents Financial Services Division in the Crisis Management Team at Safaricom which is charged with ensuring business continuity and overall crisis management. Isaac is a holder of Bachelors and Masters degrees in Computer Science from the University of Nairobi, and a Masters certificate in Business Analysis from George Washington University. He is also a Prince2 Project Management Practitioner among other professional qualifications. In the year 2012, he published a thesis on Architecture for Cloud-Based Rapid Application Development Framework which has since been published by Lambert Publishers. He has also been contributing to Stack Overflow and other technology based community sites. ©

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