Leadership & consultants
A lean core team backed by senior specialists. FIT keeps a small permanent team and contracts senior and associate consultants for each assignment — keeping fixed costs low while fielding teams for HR, finance, law, data and technology work.
Robert M.J. Kintu
Founder of FIT and its leader since 1997. He designed Uganda’s national agricultural market information system (Danida, 2008) and built Infotrade and Maalicard. He served on the national ICT policy team and was a chief architect of the Parliamentary Scorecard.
He has team-led the Danida, Cordaid, ABI Trust, VECO, Mercy Corps and TechnoServe contracts, and personally led the 2025 Electoral Commission recruitments. He has mentored more than 176 professionals and led the work that won the 2016 ACIA–UCC ICT innovation award and the 2020 Global Gold Award in Quality Assurance. He chairs Ellodoctor Foundation Ltd and the MaaliSacco Formation Committee.
- MBA, University of Dundee (1996)
- MSc International Marketing, University of Strathclyde (1997)
- Diploma in Business Administration, Edinburgh (1995)
- PhD Business Administration, final stage — SMC University
- PG Data Science & Business Analytics, UT Austin (2023)
- PMI member · Paul Harris Fellow
Duncombe, Heeks, Kintu et al. (2005) eCommerce for Small Enterprise Development, University of Manchester.
Heeks, Amalia, Kintu & Shah (2013) Inclusive Innovation: Definition, Conceptualisation and Future Research Priorities.
CTA & EAGC (2013) Structured Grain Trading Systems in Africa, ch. 5 “Market Information”.
Kintu (2016) The Commercial Market Opportunity for Weather & Climate Services in Africa, UNDP CIRDA.
As featured by GEF (2018), Irish Farmers Journal (2017), The World / PRI (2016) and Daily Monitor (2018).
The teams we field
Core staff and senior associates work with FIT across assignments. Associate consultants hold senior posts elsewhere and join FIT teams when an assignment needs their expertise.
HR & Organisational Development
HR policy, recruitment, organisational design and legal compliance
Charles Lwanga Kiiza
HR & Organisational Development
MA HRM (Makerere) · PGD HRM (UMI) · OD&D (RIPA, UK) · CIPD, HRMAU · 25+ years
Public-institution HR specialist. Director in the Office of the Clerk to Parliament; formerly Assistant Director HRM, Parliamentary Commission. Associate of FIT since 2003.
Mary Vincent Nabatanzi
Recruitment Officer · HR
Bachelor of HRM (MUBS) · MBA in progress (MUBS) · Administrative Officers’ Law (LDC)
Recruitment officer on FIT’s 2025 public-sector recruitment: shortlisting, interview logistics, reference checks and candidate communication. Earlier HR roles at The Medical Hub and URA.
Peter Busiku
Legal & Governance
LLM, LLB (Makerere) · Executive MBA (ESAMI) · Advocate of the High Court · ~24 years
Partner at Angualia Busiku & Co. Advocates: property, employment law and HR manuals. Former Principal Assistant Editor of Hansard, Parliament of Uganda. Legislative drafting.
Finance & Banking
Corporate finance, banking, microfinance and financial inclusion
David Opio Okello
Finance & Corporate Finance
ACCA · BA (Hons) Accounting & Finance (London South Bank) · ~35 years
Former Finance Manager at Umeme, where he helped secure US$25m of IFC debt. Group Finance Director at BBOXX (UK). Financial adviser to CTPH and Gorilla Conservation Coffee. Earlier at KPMG and RBS/NatWest.
Duncan Aturinda
Banking & Microfinance
MBA Finance (Uganda Martyrs University) · BA Economics (Makerere) · 22+ years
Founder and MD of OCTA Finance, an UMRA-regulated microfinance institution. Former senior roles at Equity Bank, where deposits grew from UGX 32bn to 63bn, and at Fina Bank.
Ruhangawebare Kalemera Godfrey
Financial Inclusion & Agricultural Economics
MSc Agricultural & Applied Economics (Makerere/Pretoria) · APMG Project Manager · 22+ years
About 15 years with CRS Uganda. Ran a US$2m programme reaching 156,171 people in 5,510 savings groups, which saved UGX 10.6bn.
Research, M&E & Strategy
Surveys, evaluations, business development and strategy — led by Robert M.J. Kintu
Paul George Bateeze
M&E and Business Development
MSc Comparative Development & Policy (Bristol) · BA Social Science (Makerere) · 28+ years
Led a GIZ unit that delivered business development services to 2,000 MSMEs in 15 districts (52% women). Now team leader for GIZ WE4D tracer surveys. Co-founded EADEN and raised US$1.2m for it.
Harry James Oyuru
M&E, Research & Value Chains
MSc Project Management (Cavendish) · BSc Statistics & Economics (Makerere) · PMP · 12 years
More than 32 surveys and evaluations for WFP, GIZ, Swisscontact, CARE, NAADS and AVSI/USAID. On FIT teams for the Cordaid, ABI Trust, Ford Foundation, Mercy Corps and TJX assignments (2011–2015).
David Lukanga
Business Development
MSc Nano-biochemistry · 6 years
Business-development consultant supporting FIT’s proposals, client development and market assessments.
Data & Technology
Business intelligence, fintech, software, data engineering and cloud infrastructure
Arthur Ronald Arinaitwe
Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
Executive MBA, Data & Decisions (Quantic) · Power BI · ICF coach · ~18 years
CEO of Task Managers Ltd. Delivers dashboards and BI for American Tower (7 countries), Compassion International, Commercial Bank of Africa, Vivo Energy and Hima Cement.
Bernard Fred Tebandeke
Fintech & Payment Systems
BSc Computer Science (Makerere) · PCI DSS Level 1 lead · 8+ years
CTO of DusuPay, processing USD 45m a year in 10+ markets. Co-designed the Maalicard neo-banking platform, including the Interswitch integration and KYC.
Joseph Willrich Lutalo
Software & Data Engineering
BSc Computer Science (Makerere) · MSc Software Engineering in progress · ~16 years
Built the UNRA axle-load system for 6 weigh stations, the ACODE local-government SMS feedback platform and the Botswana Post data platform. Microsoft Imagine Cup regional winner.
Gilbert Francis Ssekamanya
Database & Software Development
BSc Education, Physics/Maths (Makerere) · Oracle SQL · Systems administration
Oracle and APEX developer and database administrator. Worked on the Petroleum Authority supplier database and the MoFPED PROFIRA SACCO M&E database, and led an ERP build.
Mukama Jovita Jason
Infrastructure Engineer · Cloud & DevOps
BSc Computer Science (ISBAT) · Higher Diploma Software Engineering (Aptech) · 6+ years
Runs FIT’s AWS and Azure infrastructure, networking, monitoring and deployment pipelines since February 2025. Software and DevOps engineer on Uganda Police Force HR and records systems.
Quality & Health
Quality assurance, client relations and public health
Winfred Akello
Quality Assurance & Client Relations
Dip. Food Science Technology (Kyambogo) · Dip. Software Engineering · SPS Measures certificate
FIT staff since 2018. Quality assurance on the shea value-chain baseline in Lango. Applies ISO 9001 quality management, HACCP and web QA. Client relations for Maalicard.
Dr Betty Nsangi Kintu
Public Health
PhD Epidemiology, MPH (University of Texas) · MBChB (Mbarara) · 14+ years
Former Executive Director of Reach Out Mbuya (PEPFAR/CDC), which she grew from 5,000 to more than 9,000 clients. NIH-funded principal investigator and co-author of Ministry of Health TB/HIV manuals.
Dr Rogers M. Kabuye
Health Systems Engineer
Health systems engineering
Health systems specialist in FIT’s associate network, supporting digital health and institutional health assignments.
Full CVs are available to clients on request. Interested in joining our associate network? See Recruitment or write to recruit@fitinsightsgroup.com.
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