Michael (Kioneki) Kimani

Michael Kimani Kioneki is a story teller and entrepreneur from East Africa. He is presently a co-founder at Fonbnk, where he heads growth for the Africa region. Michael’s claim to fame is accelerating Africa’s technology startup ecosystem through: - Community building a network in East Africa from 10 to 100,000 people that directly influenced blockchain policies by Kenyan and Ugandan governments. - Growth hacking hundreds of thousands of users for Africa’s leading crypto gateways such as Paxful, and Localbitcoins in East Africa, contributing to Africa’s pole position in peer-to-peer transactions globally. - Product innovation for 1 million + users for companies and governments like Visa, Koko Networks, Zippie on digital products and platforms including a blockchain IDentity registry project for an African government. - Ongoing advisory for venture funds, companies, licensed financial institutions, and public blockchain distributed organizations on African market entry strategies. For example Mercy Corps Ventures, Coinbase, tier 1 Banks in East Africa, and Ethereum foundation, EOS Foundation & Stellar Development Foundation (SDF). - Storytelling, mostly on crypto, blockchain and fintech resulted in 30 million + combined impressions with over 10% engagement rate on leading global publications such as Coindesk and NPR. Michael’s resume is available on request at michaelkioneki@gmail.com