Lesley Marincola is the founder and CEO of Angaza, a company that provides a customer management solution for product distributors.
She has a Bachelor’s degree in Product Design and a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.
Marincola has over 15 years of experience in the technology industry, having worked at Amazon (Lab126) with the Amazon Kindle design team, and at Bay Area design consultancy, D2M Inc. with clients including DirecTV, Genentech, Qualcomm, and Volkswagen.
She is a recipient of the Santa Clara University Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI) scholarship and was named a 2012 Tech Awards Laureate, in recognition of Angaza’s pay-as-you-go technology.
Marincola was recognized by Businessweek as one of “America’s Best Young Entrepreneurs”, is a World Economic Forum Young Global Shaper, was named a Forbes “30 Under 30” Entrepreneur, and is a 2013 Echoing Green Fellow.
About Angaza
Angaza is a company that provides a customer management solution for product distributors.
The company’s mission is to make life-changing products accessible and affordable to over 2 billion people around the world who lack access to traditional banking.
Angaza uses pay-as-you-go technology to enable distributors to offer affordable payments to consumers, allowing them to purchase products such as solar lights, cookstoves, and smartphones.
The company supports a wide range of life-changing products and services, including over 50 best-in-class pay-as-you-go devices from leading manufacturers.
Angaza works with 200+ partners in 50 countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and provides support from its offices in San Francisco, USA, and Nairobi, Kenya.
And Lesley Marincola is the founder and CEO of Angaza, and she leads the company in providing local support to the global and local Kenyan communities.
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Lesley Marincola Awards
Lesley Marincola, the founder and CEO of Angaza, has received the 2018 Skoll Award in recognition of Angaza’s innovative, market-driven approach to poverty alleviation.
She was also named one of Forbes’ “30 under 30” and one of Businessweek’s “Best Young Entrepreneurs”. These accolades recognize her as a transformative leader in the field of social entrepreneurship.
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