ADVISORY COUNCIL
Nico Spangenberg
Nico has a long history with KenSAP. Before joining the Board of Directors as the Treasurer, Nico was the Managing Director at Kenya Fluorspar Company, the primary sponsor of KenSAP for more than a decade and the home of the student residential program for many years. As Managing Director of Kenya Fluorspar Company, he managed and directed the operations of one of Kenya's largest mining companies.
Amos Kipyegon Kitur
Kipyegon, PhD, is an Associate on the Private Equity team at OrbiMed, the world’s largest healthcare investment fund. Prior to OrbiMed, he was a Consultant in the New York office of The Boston Consulting Group, where he worked in the Healthcare practice area. He also co-founded Sarora Dairies LLC/Ltd, a company that processes and distributes fresh milk and yogurt in Kenya. Kip obtained a PhD in Pharmacology from Columbia University. While at Columbia, he received the Brian F. Hoffman Award for Academic Excellence in Pharmacology and was an HHMI MIG Fellow. He completed a B.A. in Chemistry from Harvard College. He was born and raised near Bomet, a farming town in Kenya, as a last-born child in a family of 14 children, and he is part of KenSAP’s pioneer Class of 2004.
Tony Barclay
Tony is Director of Development Management and Practice in the Global Human Development Program at Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service. For 30 years, Tony was a senior executive at DAI, an employee-owned international development consulting firm, where he served as CEO from 1999 to 2008. During his tenure, DAI grew from a boutique firm to a global company with annual revenues of $375 million and 2,500 employees working in more than 75 countries. Honored as Executive of the Year in the October 2008 Greater Washington Government Contractor Awards ceremony, Tony has had a long career as a global development professional. He served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in western Kenya in the late 1960s, and returned there for his Ph.D. research in anthropology on the impact of a large-scale sugar project. Tony was a founding board member of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, and is a past President of the Washington Chapter of the Society for International Development. He chairs the international board of the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya, and has served on numerous other boards.
Daniel Szlapak
Daniel was born and raised in Kenya. Daniel is an investor and was formerly the Head of Global Operations for Branch International. Prior to Branch, Daniel held positions in a Pan-African hotel business, a software startup in Silicon Valley, and JP Morgan in New York. Daniel has a BA in Economics from Tufts University (Magna Cum Laude) and an MBA from Kellogg, Northwestern University.