Sheilah Birgen “things are not moving fast enough on the continent … But with the ICT everything goes so fast!”

Kenyan Sheilah Birgen is the new Country Manager of KTN Global Alliance Africa, a project co-funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and Innovate UK.  The project aims to promote poverty reduction through knowledge sharing, inclusive growth, promotion of job creation and opportunities to support innovations that can have scalable impact. 

Sheilah Birgen is an entrepreneur, consultant, and coach who has been active in the African tech ecosystem for over a decade. A specialist in innovation and strategy, she has helped many African companies to grow and develop, including startups that she incubated in mLab, which she will lead and that will become a reference in the field in Africa. 

With an MBA in Global Business and Sustainability-Impact Entrepreneurship and a Master’s degree in Management, Sheilah Birgen has understood all too well the interest of digital technology for the continent, namely as a development accelerator. This is true as long as it is combined with public policies favoring the emergence of the pan-African tech ecosystem. Her leitmotiv: “things are not moving fast enough on the continent … But with the ICT everything goes so fast!”