Our people

Leadership

An experienced team of consultants, technologists and associates across Uganda, Kenya, the USA, the UK and the Netherlands.

Managing Director & Principal Consultant

Robert M.J. Kintu

Business Process Consultant · “The Idea Motivator” · Data-Driven Strategist

Robert Julius Muwema Kintu has 26+ years of experience turning development challenges into working, commercially viable services across Africa. He founded FIT Insights and Maalicard, built Infotrade — one of Uganda’s first private agricultural market information services — and co-designed Uganda’s Parliamentary Performance Scorecard. He chairs Ellodoctor Foundation Ltd and the MaaliSacco Formation Committee.

  • MBA (Finance), University of Dundee
  • MSc International Marketing, University of Strathclyde
  • PG Data Science & Business Analytics, UT Austin (2023)
  • DBA candidate, SMC University, Switzerland
  • Technical Advisor, Africa Leadership Institute

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Selected publications

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).

Key team

Consultants and technologists

Gilbert Ssekamanya

Team Leader, ICT Programming

Database design and mathematical modelling; designs and deploys software and communication systems, with expertise in databases, cloud and internet security.

Bernard Tebandeke

Senior Consultant: Systems Integration

VOIP, SMPP, IVR, USSD, SIP, API and bank integrations; mobile apps and dashboards; key to MaaliTalk and MaaliPay.

David Lukanga

Junior Consultant: Business Development

Business-development consultant with an MSc in Nano-biochemistry and six years of experience.

Our wider network includes about 15 associate consultants and Dr Rogers M. Kabuye, Health Systems Engineer.

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