Erick Mgonda

Our Team

Nithya Ramanathan
CEO & Co-Founder
Martin Lukac
CTO & Co-Founder
Kevin Arts
Vice President, Operations & Finance
Andrew O’Keefe
Senior Manager for Business Operations & Finance
Amanda MacArthur
Head of Strategic Partnerships & Communications
Hannah Mills
Senior Program Manager, Vaccines
Nelima Otipa
Senior Program Manager, Impact
Anita Sircar
Head of Operations, India
Susan Njenga
Head of Product
Ednah Kiome
Director, Emerging Products
Lucas Howell
Engineering Director
Nagham Sabah
Accountant
Noelle Sernett
Operations & Finance Analyst
Erin Ross
Communications Director
Erick Mgonda
Technical Account Manager
Patience Mfune
Country Manager
Edward Gakuru
Global Expansion Manager
Hosea Kintu
Senior Customer Operations Manager
Nassem Mohammad
Customer Support Manager, Hardware
Paul Mwarabu
Customer Support Specialist
Sushanta Pradhan
Customer Success Engineer
Audrey Lukela
Impact Consultant
Geofrey Gundah
Country Manager
Shaji Malik
Country Manager
Tisaye Kalua
Impact Consultant
Anant Kumar
Associate Warehouse Coordinator
Anurag Mishra
Logistics Coordinator
Dharmendra Pratap Singh
Manufacturing and Development Manager
Jill Moraa
Product Manager
Tom Mehoke
Senior Data & Visualization Specialist
Aayush Khanna
Software Developer
Brian Moenga
Software Engineer, Front-End
Chris Combs
Software Engineer, Back-End
Colin Groark
Software Engineer, Front-End
Innocent Kithinji
Software Engineer, Back-End
Terence Honles
Principal Software Engineer
Terry Chern
Senior Software Engineer, Back-End

Board Of Directors

Nithya Ramanathan
CEO & Co-Founder
Martin Lukac
CTO & Co-Founder
Anish Aswani
Board Chair
Managing Director, Florac
Emily Bancroft
CEO, VillageReach
Yacine Diop Djibo
Founder & Executive Director, Speak Up Africa
Jim Fruchterman
Founder and CEO, Tech Matters
Rupesh Shah
Vice President of Product Management, Granular
Moz Siddiqui
Director of Partnerships, WHO Foundation
Asher Waldfogel
Serial Entrepreneur

Advisory Board

Dr. Seth Berkley
Former CEO, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
Deborah Estrin
Associate Dean and Professor, Cornell Tech
Laura Hattendorf
Senior Advisor, Mulago Foundation; Lecturer, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Radhika Malpani
Founder, Google Images; Former Senior Director, Eng @ Google
Frank Nagle
Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School
Wendy Prosser
Senior Technical Officer, Immunization Center, JSI
Russ Siegelman
Lecturer, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Ryan Vinyard
Hardware Startup Consultant
Vinitha Watson
Founder, Zoo Labs

Erick Mgonda

Technical Account Manager

Erick Yassin Mgonda is the Technical Account Manager at Nexleaf and has been with the company since 2022. He supports Nexleaf by leading the Remote Temperature Monitoring (RTM) devices troubleshooting team in Tanzania and supports other initiatives to improve training while strengthening our relationship with the Ministry of Health in Tanzania. He holds a Bachelors of Engineering in Electronic Engineering with Information Technology from the Asia Pacific University of Innovation and Technology in Malaysia. He has more than 5 years of experience in solar mini-grid systems. Over the past 5 years, he installed, operated, maintained, and troubleshot 10+ solar mini-grid systems in Tanzania.

Outside of work Erick enjoys playing basketball and cycling. He is passionate about giving back to the community through the work that he does and seeing how it impacts and changes people’s lives both directly and indirectly.