Our Staff

FOUNDER, C.E.O, & CHAIRMAN

Ed Rege

Ed is one of Africa’s foremost practitioners in institutional development; strategic planning, design and implementation; facilitation of complex multi-stakeholder processes, including program development and implementation processes, leadership and management capacity building, and executive coaching and mentoring. He has over 35 years’ experience in agriculture, having worked in different capacities – as university trainer, CGIAR researcher and science leader. Over the last 15 years, Ed has been pursuing his passion in Organizational Development focusing on leadership and management, building on his many years’ experience in managing programs in complex global multi-institutional contexts. He is the founder and CEO of ECI-Africa and Emerge Africa. Ed holds a PhD in Genetics, M.S. in Animal Science, and BSc. in Agriculture. He has also additional training in Organizational Development from various institutions. Prior to founding ECI-Africa , Ed was the Director of the Global Biotechnology Program of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI).

SENIOR ASSOCIATE EXPERT - SEED

Chagema John Kedera

Kedera holds a PhD in Plant Pathology (major) and Plant Breeding (minor) with over three decades of experience in agriculture/trade/policy especially in national and international standards (covering plant protection, food safety, biotechnology, plant variety protection and seed certification).  Kedera has held various key positions within the continent and beyond including  heading the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Annual Seed Schemes meetings, and the Food for Agricultural Organization’s (FAO) Commission for Phytosanitary Measures (CPM)  in 2006-2008. He has served as: the Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Advisor to the USAID – East Africa Trade and Investment Hub; Senior Technical Consultant with the USAID-Kenya Agricultural Value Chain Enterprises on horticultural issues; and Strategic Advisor for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) on the development of a Regional Access to Seed Index for Eastern Africa, Seed Counterfeiting, Integrated Seed Systems and, Support to National Seed Trade Associations.  Kedera was also the Deputy Chief of Party of the USAID-Kenya Horticulture Competitiveness Project in charge of policy, standards, value chain coordination, market linkages and market information systems. Prior to this appointment, he served as the founding Managing Director of the Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (KEPHIS) from 1997 to 2010. At ECI-Africa, Kedera provides technical expertise mainly in the strategic design, development and implementation of seed research and systems projects.

ACCOUNTANT

John Muluka

John provides financial support to the organisation by ensuring payments are made on time and books are accurate and properly maintained. This includes assisting in the audit procedures, payables, statutory compliance and inter-ledger reconciliation, among others. He is a Certified Public Accountant of Kenya (CPA) having trained at KCA University. He previously worked at Gal Baking Limited, a food supply chain as sales accountant. In his work, he promotes integrity, ensures compliance with the law and helps to ensure the organization’s books give a true and fair view of the financial status.

Accountant Assistant

Leah Otieno

IT Officer

Felix Odonde

Felix is currently the Officer, IT at ECI-Africa – an organizational development organization.
As IT Officer, his  career objective is to lead today’s mission critical and challenging IT environment and to proactively plan, manage, offer solutions and to continuously seek for continuous improvement leveraging on his expertise, skills and knowledge acquired over the years in the areas of IT Networks and Security, Datacentre Facilities Management, Datacenter Operations, Storage & Virtualization, Infrastructure Support and Support.

Secondary objectives are to ensure the functioning, as well as the monitoring and implementation of the organization’s IT infrastructure, analyse the technological needs of the organization and recommend upgrades as well as security patches. Alongside this, he strives to ensure compliance with various standards and regulations, SLA/OLA management as well as keeping operations simple, manageable, effective and efficient with a mission and a vision to deliver value to customers, shareholders and to business.

At ECI-Africa Felix has adopted Agile methodologies for effective project management for faster time to market and as a people influencer, He believes in team motivation with the sound knowledge that the people resource forms the backbone of any successful enterprise alongside processes and the application of various technologies