Sam Gichuru

Sam Gichuru is Founder & CEO of Nailab, one of Kenya’ s leading business incubators. His contribution in establishing the startup business ecosystem in Kenya, through Nailab, has been significant and as a result was invited as a key speaker during the 2015 Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES), held in Nairobi and officiated by the then President of The United States, Barack Obama. Sam has been instrumental in propagating the set up of strong and vibrant entrepreneurship ecosystem and its through this engagement that he was most recently selected by Jack Ma to lead, through Nailab, the Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative, a $10M Initiative that seeks to discover, spotlight and support 10 African entrepreneurs every year for the next 10 years