Mike Otieno is the Group CEO and co-founder of Threewin Limited a digital transformation company based in Nairobi, Kenya and Estonia.
Threewin’s flagship product is Wowzi, an innovative product designed to democratize influencer marketing: “Make everyone an influencer and enable any business to promote their services using social media influencers. Wowzi will not only create millions of jobs in the gig economy but also enable small and medium businesses to unlock the power of digital media.
Mike Otieno has a background in strategy consulting and has worked with renowned firms such as Mckinsey and Company and the Palladium Group. Mike was also an Uber Nairobi Ambassador. He is also the consular of internations Nairobi Professional Networking group that brings together 1299 members from 106 countries. Every month he hosts a CEO networking forum for the community. Some of his past speakers have included: Nick Nesbitt, CEO of IBM EastAfrica, HE Ambassador Fionnuala, Irish Ambassador to Kenya, Mr. Jeff Odundo, CEO of the Nairobi Stock Exchange, John Ngumi, Chairman of the Kenya Pipeline Corporation, Isaac Awuondo, CEO of CBA Bank Kenya, among others.
Mike is also the founder of the Presidential Fellows Program, designed to support returning Kenyans who studied abroad to find opportunities at home. Now in its second year the Fellows program has worked with 22 Fellows with a 100% job placement rate post fellows. His Fellows come from universities such as Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Brown, Edinbrugh, Carnegie Mellon among others.
Mike has been a keynote speaker and a panelist for various conferences including Africa 3.0 Conference sponsored by the British government to address the Insuretech Opportunity, Credit Bank’s bridging the funding gap among SMEs forum, Aga Khan University SCALE Forum for entrepreneurs among others.