Michael MacHaria

Background

About Michael MacHaria

Mike Macharia is the Founder and Group Chief Visionary officer at Ponea, a healthcare aggregator delivering medical services through technology platforms via licensed, vetted and accredited health providers. He is a serial entrepreneur, having founded one of Kenya’s leading IT services firms, Seven Seas Technologies, at the precocious age of 25, which he steered as CEO into a leading IT and healthcare services firm through innovation, vision, commitment and passion. Mike is a qualified accountant with over two decades experience in entrepreneurship, a former Chairman of the Kenya Information Technology & Outsourcing Society (KITOS), Chairman of the ICT Sector Committee for the Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA) as well as the SME Scale-Up initiative. Mike is a founding board member and Vice Chairman of Endeavor Kenya, a subsidiary to Endeavour Global, which leads a worldwide movement in support of high-impact entrepreneurship. He is also a WEF 2014 - Young Global Leader and Young Presidents Organization (YPO) Kenya member. Mike was a founding board member and Vice Chair of Endeavor Kenya. He tranformed the Kenyan government’s universal healthcare project despite vested interests that led to significant loss of investment which ended up in litigation. Kenya Healthcare project gave birth to rethinking of the Ponea Private sector lead B2C transformation