Moja Market

An Enterprise Engine for Africa

  • Stage Prototype Ready
  • Industry Mobile
  • Location Grand Rapids, MI, US
  • Currency USD
  • Founded 2015
  • Employees 9
  • Incorporation Type LLC
  • Website moja.market

Company Summary

Moja combines in a single mobile app Moja Market, a culturally adapted, ground-breaking b2b and b2c trading platform, Moja University, a learning environment for entrepreneurs, and Moja Connect, a business networking system. Moja is a complete ecosystem for entrepreneurs, including a payment platform and digital wallet, loan and insurance facilities, and an MVNO—all purpose-built for the African market. See our app tour in the Documents section.

Team

  • Managing Partner/Founder

    Ken is a lifelong serial entrepreneur and restless innovator with nearly four-decades of business experience in Africa. Extensive background in negotiating, acquiring, and developing government agreements, all FCPA compliant. A seasoned negotiator and advocate with heads of state, cabinet-level ministers, and legislators. Ken has hard-earned, practical knowledge of the legal and regulatory spheres, and deep, experiential knowledge of Africa.

  • Director Moja University/Partner

    Stephen is an intellectual architect and innovation strategist specializing in entrepreneurship, social theory, economic theory, and innovation-related topics. He is the author of eight books and editor of three academic book series, has taught courses in economics and ethics at the university level, and has led international seminars on the integration of morality, economics, and entrepreneurship. He has lectured around the world and in Africa.

  • Advisor/Partner

    Wayne has 20+ years experience in the telecommunications and mobile financial services sector in Africa. He is the founder of Go2mobile and co-founder of Grassroots Digital. Go2mobile is a consulting and managed-services firm providing enterprise IT solutions. Grass Root Digital is an enterprise mobile and digital application development company focused on mobile strategy and monetizing large customer databases. Wayne lives in South Africa.

  • Advisor/Partner

    Lloyd is an IT professional with 20+ years experience in a broad range of technology and online industries. He served as the Managing Director of Red Interactive Agency in London, a leading digital agency focused on customer acquisition strategies, SEM, brand strategy and website funnel optimization. Lloyd has in-depth experience in a variety of interactive technologies, including payment gateways. Lloyd resides in Cape Town, South Africa.

  • CQL Corp/Developer/Partner

    CQL Corp. is a leading e-commerce developer and IT company with 20+ years in the sector. CQL has built numerous e-commerce platforms for Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000 companies, including projects for some of the most demanding and design-conscious companies in the world.

  • Managing Partner/Founder

    Rich is an IT entrepreneur with extensive experience founding, managing, and advising telecommunications companies internationally and in Africa. He is an interdisciplinary thinker with particular expertise in the convergence of mobile (cellular) and internet technology. He brings a wide variety of skillsets to Moja, including internet-based next-generation networks (NGN), IP multimedia subsystems (IMS), and mobile virtual networks (MVNOs).

  • CEO Designate of Moja Africa/Partner

    Skot is the founder of an international consultancy specializing in organizational development, workforce development, cultural transformation, and inclusion. He has advised many of the Fortune 500's largest global brands, including the Ford Motor Company, Johnson & Johnson, Motorola, ABC/Disney, Sprint Communications, Cisco Systems, and Sun Microsystems. Skot has an extensive network of relationships in Africa within Moja's key market sectors

  • Director of Trusted Networks/Partner

    Kris has wide experience working in Africa, where she advised and supported small businesses on a range of subjects. She has spent significant time in twelve African countries, both as an outside advisor and in-house client manager for a major non-profit business incubator. Kris previously served as an IT consultant and client manager for an interactive agency and Managing Director of the research division of an IT-industry firm.

  • Events/Partner/Founder

    Michele is a collaborative producer of large-scale events; a coordinator and manager with more than two decades experience in film, convention, and festival production. She has worked with a variety of large domestic and international companies on projects involving thousands of participants. Michele will, facilitate, organize, and conduct special events, trade fairs, press conferences, and receptions for Moja promotional events in Africa.

  • Director Moja Foundation/Partner

    Brett has spent more than twenty years in the non-profit sector. He has engaged extensively with leaders of NGOs and faith-based organizations in Africa, where his emphasis has been on breaking the bonds of dependency and fostering cultures of trust, generosity, and sustainability. Brett has advised foundations and movement-based networks, and brings decades of experience in these sectors, all of which participate in Moja's Trusted Networks.

Advisors

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