Meet Our Team

Drissa Kanambaye

Co-Founder, Co-Director

Drissa Kanambaye, PhD en information et Communication (Université Catholique de Louvain -Belgique),  MA en Lettres modernes (Université de Bamako) et MA en Information et Communication (Université Libre de Bruxelles). Il est aussi analyste et expert sur les questions sécuritaires dans le Sahel.

Drissa est le fondateur et CEO de KCG (Kanambaye Consulting Group).

Lauren Hatvany

Co-Founder, Co-Director

Lauren Hatvany is a founder and the former director of Mustardseed Trust UK (2000-2019), an organization supporting grass-roots civil society organizations around the globe.  From 1986-2000 she worked as a licensed private investigator in the San Francisco Bay Area on criminal and civil cases.  She holds a masters degree in Criminology and Law and Society from UC Irvine and a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature from UC Berkeley (California).

Mahamadou Camara

Advisory Board Member

Mahamadou Camara is founder and CEO of Group Impact Media, a pan african communication group based in Mali making quality media accessible to all.    He was the director of cabinet and spokesperson of Malian presidential candidate Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta (IBK) from 2010 to 2013. When IBK was elected to the presidency in 2013, Mahamadou Camara became his director of cabinet at the Presidency of the Republic of Mali (2013-2014) and was later appointed Minister of Digital Economy and Communication (2014-2015).

Mwalimu Musheshe

Advisory Board Member

Mwalimu Musheshe and his team have pioneered the visionary approach to development with astounding results.  He is a founder of Uganda Rural Development and Training Program and of the African Rural University, of which he is currently the Vice Chancellor.  He co-pioneered the establishment of the first three community radio stations in the original East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda) which has helped mobilize marginalized communities, such as the Kamba, Masai and Banyoro, for development. He is an Ashoka fellow, a man of many talents, and a teacher and mentor to many.

Max Hatvany

Advisory Board Member

Max Hatvany, Investor, UK,  brings 30 years of investment experience to Yagana.  A kind-hearted futurist, Max is preternaturally good at identifying emerging trends.