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Savio Wambugu
CEO
Director at Mt Kenya Innovation Hub, Board Director at ICT Authority, and Chairperson of the Association of Countrywi...
Founded in 2013, Mt Kenya Innovation Hub exists to help innovators, entrepreneurs, artisans, young people, researchers, and community actors turn ideas into visible progress. We create space for collaboration, skills development, market access, digital products, and ecosystem partnerships that move promising work forward.
Mt Kenya Hub combines physical community-building with digital tools, allowing the institution to support real innovators while also documenting outcomes, stories, and relationships across the ecosystem.
We provide optimal service to our community by supporting innovators with the environment, linkages, knowledge, and systems needed to move from possibility to execution.
Our vision is rooted in the philosophy of a beehive: a living ecosystem where ideas, curiosity, collaboration, and enterprise feed the future.
We work through programs, digital tools, research, ecosystem partnerships, mentorship, convenings, and local innovation communities that create measurable value.
We embrace innovators, makers, youth, women, community groups, artisans, and researchers from different backgrounds and levels of experience.
We support technology-driven and non-tech solutions that solve real problems and unlock opportunity across sectors.
We believe progress grows faster when people build together, learn together, and make each other visible.
We strengthen ventures, institutions, and ecosystems in ways that create long-term social and economic value.
That means building systems, spaces, and relationships that give promising people a fairer chance to grow, launch, and become visible.
Director at Mt Kenya Innovation Hub, Board Director at ICT Authority, and Chairperson of the Association of Countrywi...