Jane Kimemia is a Pan-African business leader with combined 23 years’ experience in financial services and development finance across a broad spectrum of client segments including consumer banking, commercial banking, and covering product propositions from transactional banking, lending and wealth management. In the last 4 years, she has been heavily involved in work in development finance and investments across east, west and southern Africa dealing with partnerships, liaisons with private companies and government institutions on structuring of transactions and execution of projects at national and local government levels.
Her expertise is in general management, with distinct competence in building and establishing sustainable business propositions from scratch, building and nurturing high performing teams hence raising the profile of the teams and business. She has responsibility for visibility, contribution and quality of output.
Jane brings a unique and comprehensive perspective that is a combination of financial services and development finance with understanding of economies across Africa and sectors driving economic growth. She is also involved in fund raising activities for commercial high impact projects addressing Sustainable Development Goals and in the management of the partnerships.
Furthermore, Jane is passionate about development and working with institutions and teams that provide support in financing and capacity building to spur economic growth and sustainable transformation across economies in Africa.
She founded ‘Everlasting Foundation’, a not for profit organisation focused on mentoring and supporting young people from Kibera, one of the largest informal settlement areas in sub Saharan Africa. This has grown into a formidable movement of young people committed to making the right choices, peer mentorship circles and being a force for good in the society.