Archives: Our Team

Innocent Kithinji

Innocent is a backend software engineer driven by a passion for utilizing technology for positive change. At Nexleaf Analytics, he’s committed to leveraging data and technology to improve health outcomes.

Innocent has a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and over four years experience in various industries, including fintech, insuretech, esigning and news aggregation. Innocent is fascinated by the transformative power of technology to address complex challenges and drive meaningful societal impact.

In his spare time, Innocent enjoys hiking, playing chess, and volunteering at local community centers.

Terence Honles

Principal Software Engineer

Terence Honles is a Principal Software Engineer at Nexleaf Analytics. He graduated from UCLA with a degree in Computer Science, and his work history includes Amazon, Google, Hewlett-Packard, and Microsoft. While at Google, Terence realized he needed something different, and he sought to return to a startup or smaller company; He was looking for a team with a philanthropic or humanitarian focus, and that was when he discovered Nexleaf Analytics was hiring.

Terence, while at UCLA, had previously worked with Nithya and Martin at UCLA’s Center for Embedded Networked Sensing. The project he was exposed to exemplified why he had chosen Computer Science as a degree; Computers and technology were increasingly becoming ubiquitous, and by learning how to craft software, he would be able to assist with tasks and efforts which reached much further than the physical computing device he was programming. Terence took the opportunity to work with Nithya and Martin again and joined their team at Nexleaf Analytics.

As a Principal Software Engineer at Nexleaf Analytics, Terence has been incorporating industry best practices and lessons from his work history into the development process and system design of Nexleaf’s current and future software endeavors. As a Principal, Terence’s impact reaches beyond his own work as he continuously strives to help build out the technical expertise of his team, and as needed, he advocates on behalf of the team to continue to improve the quality of Nexleaf’s products.

Dr. Seth Berkley

Dr. Berkley is an infectious disease epidemiologist and serial entrepreneur. He served as CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance from 2011-23. There, he spearheaded the global effort to expand worldwide vaccine access and supported countries to vaccinate more than half of the world’s children against preventable disease. He also co-founded COVAX, which enabled equitable access to Covid-19 vaccines and provided 2 billion doses to 146 countries. In these roles, his team helped countries introduce >700 new vaccines and prevent more than 17 million deaths. Gavi raised $33.3 billion under his leadership.

In previous roles, Dr. Berkley founded the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative and worked with the Special Pathogens Branch of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, the Ministry of Health of Uganda and the Rockefeller Foundation. He has published hundreds of articles, received numerous prestigious awards, three honorary doctorates, given three TED talks and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

Dr. Berkley received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Brown University and trained in internal medicine at Harvard University. He is currently serving as an advisor and Board member to numerous health and technology companies and is an Adjunct Professor and Senior Advisor to the Pandemic Center at Brown University.

Dr. Berkley has been a powerful champion and advocate for Nexleaf since being named a Gavi Pacesetter in 2016.

Radhika Malpani

Radhika is a senior executive with over 30 years experience in the technology sector, working at leading organizations like Google, Hewlett Packard and Siemens.

At Google, Radhika was a Senior Eng. Director and was responsible, over a period of ~20 years, for initiating and scaling up several critical products. Starting with leading Google Ads in 2000, Radhika founded Google Images, growing it to over 1B queries/day. In addition to starting Google Local Search, she also led Google Travel Search to help users better plan their leisure trips.

Radhika has always been interested in the application of technology for social impact, and left Google in mid 2019 to focus full-time on helping mission-oriented startups scale. She uses her extensive experience with building and scaling successful products and organizations, to help founders think through important strategic issues. Radhika is currently a board member of Educate!, Simprints, Island Conservation, and The Nature Conservancy (California Leadership Council), as well as advises several startup founders. She is also a technical advisor to CIFF (Children’s Investment Fund Foundation), and a mentor with the Unreasonable Group.

Radhika brings those same entrepreneurial approaches to educating the next generation of leaders. She co-teaches entrepreneurship focussed on climate change both at Stanford, and at UC Santa Cruz where she is an Associate Adjunct Professor.

Radhika is an avid traveler, having been to all 7 continents, where she is happiest if she can snorkel. Good food, being outdoors, spending time with friends and family – these are a few of her favorite things.