Tevis Howard

Tevis Howard is the Founder and CEO of Komaza, a vertically integrated forestry company partnering with smallholder farmers in Kenya to plant trees and combat poverty. A Bay Area native, he graduated from Brown University with a degree in Neuroscience in 2007. After conducting malaria research at KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Labs in Kenya during his gap year and college, he shifted focus from science to social entrepreneurship. He founded Komaza from his dorm room in 2005 and has since grown it into a major forestry enterprise, raising over $40 million in funding and planting millions of trees across Kenya. Howard has been recognized as a Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneur and Ashoka Fellow.