Project Team
The project is being implemented by a team of highly-qualified experts and staff from the implementing consortium. The project is directed by Markus Grillitsch, Managing partner of ATC Consultants, together with the project Team Leader Sharon C. Mosin (Kenya), based in Nairobi and responsible for the technical implementation on the field and for managing short-term experts.
PROJECT FIELD OFFICE (NAIROBI, KENYA):
Sharon C. Mosin, Team Leader
Sharon C. Mosin is the project's Team Leader since August 2011. She joined the MFI Upgrading Team in March 2009 where she was initially in charge of identifying the project’s partner institutions. Since then, Sharon delivered several trainings and technical assistance (TA) interventions according to the MFI’s specific needs in fields such as Delinquency Management, Operational Risk Management (ORM), Interest Rate Setting, etc. Sharon also follows up on MFI’s individual progress according to their capacity building plans, and monitors wider project aspects such as completion of the Tier 2 criteria by partner institutions.
Prior to joining the Project team, Sharon has conducted several consultancies in Kenya and other East-African countries namely Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Southern Sudan, Tanzania Uganda. She has been involved in the training of leaders and members of grassroots savings and credit schemes, designed innovative community livelihoods for the vulnerable in hardship areas and conducted quantitative research in the field of microenterprise development, livelihoods baseline surveys and market research for product development. Other areas of experience include program and project evaluations, training in Project Cycle Management approach and design of Risk Management structures for MFIs.
Sharon holds a Bachelor’s degree in Education and Master of Arts in Economics from the University of Nairobi. She is also a certified CGAP trainer in Operational Risk Management, in Market research for Product development by Microsave, and attended the 2011 edition of the Boulder Microfinance Training Programme.
PROJECT HEAD OFFICE (VIENNA, AUSTRIA):
Markus Grillitsch, Project Director
Markus Grillitsch, the Project Director, is responsible for the overall management of the project and backstopping services, from the head office of ATC Consultants in Vienna. Managing Director of ATC Consultants, Markus Grillitsch holds a Doctorate in Economics (specialised in innovation, knowledge economy and cooperation) and has 10 years international project management experience for large programs in the field of international development. He previously worked as Business Development Manager for projects funded by international donors and successfully implemented numerous international consulting projects mainly in the fields of sustainable socio-economic development, regional development, resort planning and tourism development.
Iris Ollivault, Project Manager
Iris manages the project since January 2011.
She holds a Masters’ degree in Political Sciences from Sciences Po Lille (France), with an Economics and Finance major. She joined the ATC team in January 2010, after having worked in a French company specialized in the development of emission reduction projects worldwide.
Iris is now involved at different levels of project management, with a stronger focus on Microfinance, and also manages the visibility and communication component of the Second Microfinance programme of the EU for the ACP Group of States since its inception in March 2011.
Pool of Short-term experts
The ATC Consortium has built a pool of leading local and international specialists to draw upon over the whole project duration, based on the needs of the MFIs enrolled in the programme. This core team counts microfinance experts and trainers who all combine a profound knowledge of microfinance issues with relevant experience in East Africa.
Trevor Mugwang'a
Trevor Mugwang’a has over 13 years professional experience in the field of microfinance and finance in Eastern, Western and Southern Africa. Over the past 8 years, he has been working as a microfinance trainer and banking system advisor for MicroSave, a multi-donor (CGAP, DFID, Austrian Regional Bureau, and UNDP) project and later as a Partner and Senior Financial Services Specialist for the consulting company, providing technical assistance and training to MFIs throughout Africa. He previously worked in Kenya as financial analyst for an MFI and for 4 years as Head of Finance at a commercial bank. Countries of field experience include Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda.
Trevor is an experienced trainer in MicroSave and CGAP resource tools and is an accredited trainer at Applied Microfinance Institute (AMI), School of Applied Microfinance (SAM) and Southern New Hampshire University’s Microenterprise Development Institute (MDI). He focuses primarily on providing training and technical assistance in credit systems, risk management, costing and pricing of financial services as well as product development market research and pilot testing and rollout.
Trevor holds a Bachelors degree in Commerce from the University of Nairobi and a Masters degree in Finance and Accountancy from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.
Indrajith Wijesiriwardana (Jith)
Jith is Country Specialist Ethiopia, and provides regular training to the country’s selected MFIs.
He is a highly skilled consultant in international development finance with over 18 years international experience, spread throughout 28 countries worldwide. His key areas of experience include Microfinance, SME Finance (MSME) and Capacity Building in the financial sector.
His current assignments involve capacity building in MSME sector for which he develops new products and financial systems; topics on which he is often appointed as resource person in related international conferences. Besides his involvment in our project, Jith currently works in Kathmandu (Nepal) as team leader in an Asian Bank of Development funded project aimed at designing rural finance program at the national scale.
Jith is a Chartered Management Accountant and holds MBA and MA (Econ) degrees. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute and is an independent consultant based in the UK.
Chris Malwadde, Business Planning Trainer
Chris Malwadde provides CGAP business planning training within the project.
As an MBA graduate with 12 years professional experience in the field of microfinance, Chris has wide expertise in NGO-MFI transformations to regulated institutions transforming and carried out several microfinance institutional assessments, achieved organizational designs, business plans, performance monitoring and more generally intercedes at every step towards a sustainable development of targeted institutions. He is also conversant with the current international microfinance developments such as consumer literacy and protection programmes, social performance, value chain analysis and financing relating to rural finance.
Chris is a certified CGAP trainer, and also a resource person in the annual School of Applied Microfinance of Mombasa, Kenya. He has carried out several training needs assessments, conducted trainings and on-site technical assistance for MFIs and Microfinance networks in countries such as Kenya, Uganda, Malawi, South Africa, Ethiopia, Tanzania, The Gambia, Egypt, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Sierra Leone and West Bank.
Anthony Maina
Anthony contributes to the project on a short-term basis as a MIS Capacity Building Expert.
With over 15 years experience in the implementation of technology solutions in banks and MFIs, he builds the project’s beneficiaries capacity in terms of enhancement of their business value through a better management of ICT systems.
Anthony has undertaken consulting assignments worldwide, with a strong focus in countries of the ACP region: Eastern and Southern Africa, as well as Madagascar, The Carribean and Haiti. His mainly provides technical input and advisory services in the field of MIS Review & Audit, business process optimization, ICT business strategy, project management, software evaluation, capacity building, implementation and integration.
Beside, Anthony is also Managing Director at Spasys Consulting, a global ICT consulting company offering its services to leading Microfinance and banking institutions.
Peter Lengewa
Peter started working with the project’s team in May 2010 and provides capacity building in the field of Human resources to its to collaborating MFIs.
He has over 12 years experience in the field of human resources, and is since 2009 owner and CEO of Essence International Ltd, a company whose aim is to bring about performance in organizations through interventions linked to human capital. Prior to that, he gained considerable experience in managing manpower development in Eastern Africa countries as a technical adviser, and keeps intervening as specialist in the field.
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