TEAM PROFILE

Sam Watene is the managing director and a certified change manager at Altima Africa. He has over 10 years of strategy, leadership, management consulting and training experience working in Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa.
During Sam’s extensive career in management consulting, he has empowered leaders both in and out of the board room setting by strengthening their capacity to align corporate vision to actionable activities that drive organisational growth.
Sam has consulted for various public and private organisation among them, Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA), Communication Commission of Kenya (CCK), Virtual City, Libya Oil Kenya Limited, Chase Bank, Seven Seas Technologies. He has prior working as a principal consultant at Deloitte and Touché-Eastern Africa region.
Sam received his Masters in Business Administration degree from Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town, South Africa. He is a Certified Public Accountant of Kenya, CPA (K) and a Bachelor of Commerce degree holder from University of Nairobi

Peter Warari is a management and entrepreneurship expert, biased in technology and organisation performance management. He has over 12 years of multi faceted experience, working for different global organisations. He has delivered practical and effective business process and strategies geared toward business transformation and excellence. He is currently a non-executive director at Altima Africa.
Prior to his consulting experience in Kenya, he was a senior consultant with Deloitte Consulting LLP; Washington DC where he facilitated the execution of winning strategies and optimized operating procedures for leading public and private companies.
He has been engaged by various private and public global brand in strategy development and performance management, among them Microsoft Corporation (East & Southern Africa), China Light & Power Company (China,), ExxonMobil (USA), Detroit City Government(USA), United States Agency for International Development USAID; (Kenya) and East Africa Breweries Ltd/UDV (Kenya).
His professional experience is supported by a strong academic background in MBA (Finance & Strategy) from University of Maryland, USA and BSc. Electrical Engineering & Electronics from University of Manchester, UK

Elizabeth Mwangi is the Head of Human Resources at Altima Africa. She is a valuable resource, having delivered various administrative and management consulting services to profit and non-profit organisations, benchmarked to international standards.
She has developed versatile, enhanced and scalable solutions in the form of surveys, performance programs and advisory services; which have been instrumental to organisations' realignment and positive resources commitment.
She has prior professional experience working as a senior executive and coordinator for global brand organisations such as Safaricom Limited, KPMG, Deloitte and Touché and World Vision Kenya. She specialises in executive recruitment, HR policy reviews, talent management and ISO standardization procedures.
Her professional experience is supported by a strong academic background, with an MSc in Human Resource Management from Jomo Kenyatta University, PGD in Human resource Management from Institute of Personnel Management of Kenya and a BCom. Marketing from University of Nairobi

Akinyi Gikonyo is a certified change Manager and tax associate at Altima Africa. She has a wealth of experience in change management in the public sector; having overseen the development and implementation of the SIMBA system; Kenya’s customs management system in 2005-2006, where she was the project manager.
She has continued to serve in the private sector as a change management consultant; where she has facilitated various public operations policy adjustment and assisted organisations assimilate positive growth policies in the areas of customs and domestic tax. Consequently, she has maintained a great working relationship with various government agencies.
She has consulted for various organisation key among them Coca Cola East and Central Africa, East Africa Breweries Ltd, Maersk Logistics, SDV Transami-Kenya and British American Tobacco (BAT) Kenya
She is currently the Managing Director of Leaders in Business Solutions (LiBS), a leading tax consultancy company within East Africa. She has been
Her professional experience is supported by a strong academic background in Masters in Business Administration (Strategic management) from Moi University and a BCom. from University of Japulpur, India