Steve Wardle

Musoni BV is a social enterprise that establishes best-practice microfinance institutions and uses technology to lower costs, reduce risk and improve efficiency. In 2009, Musoni set up the first cashless Microfinance Institution (MFI) in the world, using mobile payments for all transactions. Since then, Musoni Kenya has disbursed close to 50,000 loans to micro entrepreneurs with a total value of $12m. In the year 2011 Musoni won the award for ‘most innovative use of technology’ at the Global Microfinance Achievement Awards in Geneva. Musoni BV is now looking to expand its operations into multiple countries, to continue developing its innovative IT platform and to also make its functionalities and services available to third parties. Once Musoni BV has established an MFI, it then provides IT, funding and advisory services (the Musoni System), enabling the MFIs to reduce their costs, improve their efficiency, and focus entirely on their operations.

Juhudi Kilimo company is a micro finance institution incorporated in 2009. We provide loans to rural smallholder farmers and micro entrepreneurs in Kenya. Our mission is to improve the livelihoods of rural smallholder farmers and micro entrepreneurs by providing wealth creating financial solutions.

Sèvis Finansye Fonkoze, S.A. (“SFF”) is an organization with a double bottom line: we aim to lift families and communities in Haiti out of poverty while operating in a financially self-sustaining manner. SFF is a registered Haitian for-profit, joint-stock company incorporated on May 14, 2004. Today, SFF offers a full range of financial services including micro and small business loans, savings products, international and domestic money transfer services, currency exchange services, mobile money services, payroll services, among others. As of September 30, 2017, SFF serves nearly 209,000 clients including 70,400 mainly female borrowers through a network of 44 offices and 2,300 credit centers located throughout Haiti. In terms of outreach, SFF is Haiti’s largest MFI.

Iris, powered by Aledade, is a premier provider of a full spectrum of comprehensive technology enabled advance care planning solutions. Iris delivers value-added comprehensive advance care planning services aimed at reducing unnecessary care utilization for the seriously ill individuals, lowering cost of care, improving care quality and patient experience. We help achieve this by scaling the delivery of advance care planning, expanding access to palliative care networks and working collaboratively with clinicians to facilitate more person-centered care.

Founded in 1997, Grameen Foundation was established to end poverty by turning Professor Muhammad Yunus’ vision of microfinance into a globally recognized concept. With significant success, we harnessed technology to amplify our impact and broadened our mission to include ending hunger through our merger with Freedom from Hunger in 2016. Since 2016, we have impacted over 29 million people. Today, we aim to deepen our impact by investing in women and moving 10 million families out of poverty by 2030 through our Invest in HER Power strategy. Our Vision: A world without hunger and poverty. Our Mission: Grameen Foundation enables the poor, especially women, to create a world without poverty and hunger. The Problem: Women and their families do not have the holistic support they need to leave poverty forever. Our Solution: Grameen Foundation’s strategy, Invest in HER Power is rooted in the HER Framework and connects women and families to tailored financial services, training, and the resources needed to reduce global poverty and hunger rates. Our Goal: By 2030, we will ensure 10 million women and their families leave poverty forever.

Musoni BV is a social enterprise that establishes best-practice microfinance institutions and uses technology to lower costs, reduce risk and improve efficiency. In 2009, Musoni set up the first cashless Microfinance Institution (MFI) in the world, using mobile payments for all transactions. Since then, Musoni Kenya has disbursed close to 50,000 loans to micro entrepreneurs with a total value of $12m. In the year 2011 Musoni won the award for ‘most innovative use of technology’ at the Global Microfinance Achievement Awards in Geneva. Musoni BV is now looking to expand its operations into multiple countries, to continue developing its innovative IT platform and to also make its functionalities and services available to third parties. Once Musoni BV has established an MFI, it then provides IT, funding and advisory services (the Musoni System), enabling the MFIs to reduce their costs, improve their efficiency, and focus entirely on their operations.

Juhudi Kilimo company is a micro finance institution incorporated in 2009. We provide loans to rural smallholder farmers and micro entrepreneurs in Kenya. Our mission is to improve the livelihoods of rural smallholder farmers and micro entrepreneurs by providing wealth creating financial solutions.