Our Team
A committed group with deep healthcare, East Africa, and technology expertise to drive change in the region.
Jessica Vernon, CEO & Co-founder
Stanford, Fulbright, Innovations for Poverty Action, McKinsey
Medicine, economics, bioinformatics, scaling field operations
Garazi Zulaika, Program Director
Columbia MPH, Georgetown, DOJ, Liverpool School Tropical Medicine
Operations, partnerships, epidemiology, data science
Dorcas Masatia, Operations Director
U of Nairobi, Evidence Action, Innovations for Poverty Action
Scaling field operations, data & analytics, operational innovations, public health
Sam Wilks, Technical Director
U of Waterloo, Scribd, Yelp
Android, product management, engineering
Ruth Namai, Marketing
U of Nairobi, Evidence Action, Innovations for Poverty Action
Marketing & sales, data management, customer training and field research
Victor Okoth, Operations
Chuka University, KEMRI/CDC, Kenyan Institute of Management
Medication quality validation, public health, supply chain management
Board of Directors
Amrita Ahuja
Co-founder & Board Chair, Evidence Action
Catherine Howell
Former Head of Enterprise & Supply Chain, Barclays Africa
Jessica Vernon
CEO & Co-founder, Maisha Meds; Stanford Medical School
Maeve Magner
Former CEO of RTI Industries, largest third-party logistics company in Africa
Megan Huchko
Associate Professor of OB/GYN and Global Health at Duke University
Nick Singer
Strategy Manager, Medtronic, Emerging Markets Healthcare Systems