April 2026

This week, I graduate with my MBA from Michigan State University. I am marking that moment in Nairobi, where I have been selected as one of ten leaders in the inaugural Africa cohort of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Big Bets Fellowship.

In the book ‘Big Bets’, Dr. Rajiv Shah talks about the Ebola crisis, COVID-19 vaccines, food security, international development, and all this at a scale that most of us do not really get the insight to see.

AfricaXchange is framed around money, markets, and mindsets. That framing reflects a broader shift. There is a growing recognition that fragmented interventions are insufficient.

John D. Rockefeller

John Rockefeller is often introduced as the first modern billionaire. That framing is incomplete. His significance lies in the fact that he built two systems, sequentially, each with lasting global implications.