Brian Kuwik

Background

About Brian Kuwik

Brian Kuwik is Senior Vice President, Central Asia at Accion delivering advisory solutions and managing its relationships with partner financial institutions in Africa and Asia. He sits on the boards of investee institutions playing an active role in governance and providing strategic and financial advice. He drives business development analyzing and proposing investment opportunities as well as supporting the delivery of advisory solutions. Brian brings to his role more than 25 years of experience working to improve financial inclusion, promote entrepreneurship and expand economic opportunity in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Previously, he served as resident advisor and senior manager for Accion partners in Zimbabwe, Uganda, and Haiti where he managed MSME lending operations and built staff capacity. He supported the design and start-up of new microfinance banks in Nigeria, Ghana, and Cameroon. Most recently, he has led new collaborations with banks and fintechs in Kazakhstan, Madagascar, Mozambique, Myanmar and Uzbekistan. He has extensive knowledge and experience in institutional transformation working to enable five commercial banks to serve MSMEs and a wide range of providers to offer digital financial services. Before joining Accion, Brian worked at the Small Enterprise Foundation in rural South Africa and was a J.W. Fulbright researcher in Cameroon.