About Us

Our management combines international corporate experience with a track record of scaling-up businesses in Africa.

Michael Wilkerson
Founder & CEO

Uzairu Nanseera
Group Head of Finance

Shaun Wilson
Chief Technology Officer

Patrick Asiimwe
General Manager, Uganda

Rachael Wangaru
Ag. General Manager, Kenya

Sylvia Kushemererwa
Head of Human Resources & Administration

Michael Wilkerson

Michael holds a B.A. in Political Science with university distinction and departmental honours from Stanford University and a M. Phil in Politics from Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar
He started his career as a journalist in Kampala, Uganda where he has worked for several different companies and has a combined work experience of 10+ years in the country.
He co-founded Tugende in 2010, and he is the current CEO

Uzairu brings over 15 years of experience having worked across 4 countries (3 of which in Africa).
Uzairu is a result driven Business, Finance and Governance expert with experience in Financial, Strategic and Risk Management and possesses a strong combination of skills in telecoms, retail, financial services and a passion for fintech and serving mass markets.
Uzairu serves as Tugende’s Group Head of Finance, taking responsibility for Finance and Corporate Finance, Business Optimisation and Excellence.
He joined Tugende in June 2023

Shaun is a seasoned ICT executive with over 20 years’ experience working in the technology industry with a focus on innovation. Shaun’s success has been achieved by building and motivating teams from data and analytics to platform design, systems architecture, and product engineering.
He has previously worked for Acer Africa, Izodia, the British Council and Thera Health. He co-founded Free Minded Media – a company which specialized in creating innovative mobile and social solutions for companies and worked with brands such as Barloworld, Coca-Cola, DGB, Edcon, Postnet, SAB, Spar and Shoprite.
He also founded Awaken VR formerly SDK Africa – a company that became a pioneer in Augmented and Virtual Reality applications and was the first company in Africa to launch AR on live TV with Big Brother and the first to do a live stream in VR with Supersport.
Shaun is a former Survivor contestant, the winner of the Technology Top 100 as well as a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer and a Microsoft Certified Database Administrator.

Asiimwe is a Cisco Certified Networking Associate (CCNA) who holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science with honors from Makerere University.
He is a management information systems specialist with 10+ years of experience.
He has worked in several countries in Africa including Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda and Sudan

Rachael is a forward-thinking and result-oriented professional public accountant with an excellent track record coordinating audit, finance, and accounting processes of organization with a record of 9+ years.
Prior to joining Tugende in November 2021, Rachael worked at PKF Kenya LLP, Manohar Lall and Rai Certified Public Accountants
She holds an MBA, Finance and a BCom from the University of Nairobi

Mrs. S. Kushemererwa holds a Bachelor’s degree in Education and a Masters in HR Management from Makerere University.
She has 15+ years of experience in human resources administration
Prior to joining Tugende she worked at Taibah Group Companies. She was the HR manager at Movit Products Limited for 3 years. She also worked at Uganda Law Society as HR and Admin Manager