"And now, my watch has ended..."?
Photo by Kwame Norvixoxo — circa 2020

"And now, my watch has ended..."

After four years of a life-changing call of duty, I will be transitioning from ALU. As I look back, these were the most transformative and fulfilling years of my career not only because of what we did but most importantly because of the amazing people I worked with...

  • We scaled ALU operations in Rwanda from inception to one that currently serves 1,200 students in just 3 years. ALU was named the #39 of the 100 most innovative companies in the world — the same league as NBA (3), Alibaba (15), and Apple (17).
  • In July last year, we moved from one-floor space at Kigali Heights to our state-of-the-art $16m campus located in the Kigali Innovation City, with a 6,600sqm built-area. Construction was completed within budget, under 12 months, despite COVID-19 interruptions. The campus has since gained international acclaim in magazines such as the WSJ.
  • This year, our founding class will graduate 200 high impact leaders who are ready to change Africa and the world. I have worked with a number of them and they are brilliant — hit me up if you are looking for world-class talents :-)

The people at ALU are the reason number one anyone reading this should #workatALU or #studyatALU. Their passion, audacity to #dohardthings, and genuine love for the Continent challenged me and grew me into a leader who cares more, dreams big, and dares great.

I look forward to deploying the skills I have honed over the years to serve an even bigger community of entrepreneurs from across the region. In this new and exciting tour of duty with Norrsken Foundation, we will kickstart what will be the largest impact-tech startup hub of East Africa, that will serve more than 800 entrepreneurs by 2022.

Let’s get to work!

Yan Kwizera

Investments | Technology | History Buff

3 年

Congrats Elie!

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Congrats Elie!

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William Mutua

Consultant | Training I Program Management I Program Design

3 年

Good luck with you next adventure Elie

Benitha Uwingabiye

Office Management | Document Control | Contract Document Oversight | Post-Contract Management| Compliance Monitoring | Corporate Communications l Business Engineer | Prompt Engineering | AI | Aspiring Machine Learning |

3 年

Congrats

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Keep it up!

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