MARIE LORA-MUNGAI

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer

As CEO of Buni, Marie Lora-Mungai is responsible for establishing and leading the implementation of the Group's development and creative strategy. After meeting Gado in 2007, she turned his idea for a controversial TV show into an innovative, rapidly growing multimedia company. Together with Gado, she closely oversees the Group's various activities, with a special focus on Buni's web and mobile operations. She brings to Buni her strong experience in international broadcast media.

Marie is the Executive Producer of The XYZ Show, Africa's first puppet political satire. She is also a writer and Executive Producer on Africanism 101, a series of in-depth satirical documentaries on major socio-political issues that touch Kenya today.

Alongside her responsibilities at Buni, Marie continues her career as a broadcast journalist, writer and producer. As a journalist, she has reported from more than 15 countries on 3 continents for CNN, the BBC World Service, Reuters, Agence France Presse and various European television stations. While based in Nairobi between 2006 and 2009, she travelled extensively across the African continent to cover elections, conflicts, natural disasters, but also business, technology and arts & culture stories.

Marie won the Golden medal for Best Broadcast at the 2008 UN Correspondent Awards for a series of stories on the conflict in Darfur. She was a finalist for Best TV Feature in 2008 and Best TV Feature and Journalist of the Year in 2009 at the DIAGEO Business Reporting in Africa awards. In 2009 she was also nominated at the Rory Peck awards for her investigative piece on the albino killings in Tanzania.

She is the author of a book on George W. Bush's and John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaigns "Marketing politique: Mode d'emploi", 2006, STUDYRAMA. She holds a Masters in Political Science from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) and a Masters in Marketing and Communications from the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris (ESCP). She is a member of Women In Film – Los Angeles.

marie@bunimedia.com

FRANK "FRAN" ODOI

Creative Advisor

Frank '' Fran '' Odoi was born in Ghana and lives in Kenya.

His first career was as a scientific illustrator, before he decided to concentrate on drawing cartoons. His work has been published in the Ghanaian Voice and the Daily Graphic (Ghana), the Times/Weekly Review, Drum Magazine, Men Only/Viva, Joe Mag, the Daily Nation, the East African Standard, the Guardian, the Daily News, The African (Tanzania), the New Vision and the Monitor (Uganda), Politiken, MS Revy and Djembe-Dapanda (Denmark), Helsingen Sanomat (Finland), Noticias (Mozambique) and the BBC Focus on Africa Magazine.

Frank has also held joint exhibitions with Gado and Madd in Kenya, Finland and Denmark. He has illustrated several educational books for the German Embassy in Kenya, Oxford University Press, East African Publishers Ltd, Phoenix Publishers and Macmillan Ltd, and served as a Resource Person and Consultant for Cartoons and Comics for Development Education.

Frank's major published works include "Golgoti; The development of underdevelopment" (Like, 1995), "I will be back shortly" (OUP, 2001), "I see everything" (Oxford University Press) and "Comics with an attitude" (with Leif Packalen, KEPA 1998, Finland). His most recent work is "Akokhan, more than a comic story!"

Frank has been voted Kenya's Cartoonist of the year in 1985, 1986 and 2004. He was also awarded The Witty Pen award from the Arctic Comics Society in Finland. He is currently the Chairman of KATUNI, the Kenya Association of Cartoonists.

PAUL "MADD" KELEMBA

Creative Advisor

Paul "MADD" Kelemba is one of the pioneers of editorial cartooning in Kenya. Before joining the Standard Group in 1992, Madd had worked with the Daily Nation as editorial cartoonist and had illustrated for Drum, Viva, Men Only and True Love Magazines.

Madd contributes to several newspapers. His weekly flagship cartoon commentary "It's a Madd, Madd World" appears in the Saturday edition of the Standard Newspaper. It has run uninterrupted from 1989, when it first appeared in the Daily Nation.

He has also developed concepts, storyboards and character designs for local short films and animation commercials.

Madd's work has been shown at the Alliance Française, the Goethe Institute and the Japan Information & Culture Centre. Along with his colleagues, he has also exhibited in Tanzania, Uganda and in Europe, and toured Japan under the sponsorship of the Japan Foundation.

JAMES "KHAM" KAMAWIRA

Creative Advisor

James "Kham" Kamawira began his cartooning career after venturing into advertising as a graphics designer. In 1988, he joined the Kenya Times Media Trust newspaper as an editorial cartoonist. In 1992, he studied animation at the School of Electronic Art in San Francisco, California. Kham also holds an Advanced Diploma in 3D animation from the Shang Tao Media Arts College in Nairobi.

In 1995, he joined The Media House as editorial cartoonist and in 1997 moved to the East African Standard newspaper in the same capacity, where he has been since.

Kham was voted cartoonist of the year in 2003. He has held numerous joint exhibitions with other outstanding cartoonists in Kenya and Europe. Kham is also is a Trustee of the Free Citizens' Trust, an organization that seeks to promote visual arts as a form of information. He has been involved in the production of the world celebrated UNFPA POPED series and various other high profile productions including the UNEP-commissioned Ozone Story in collaboration with Justo Casal.

Kham has published several comic books including "Bongoman in the gulf", "Kham in Khamland" and a Swahili book entitled "Macho ya mji".

STEPHEN KING

Omidyar Network

Based in London, Stephen leads Omidyar Network's global Government Transparency investment area. His porfolio includes FrontlineSMS, Global Voices, mySociety, Refugees United, The XYZ Show, and Ushahidi.

Prior to Omidyar Network, Stephen served as the Chief Executive of the BBC World Service Trust, where he led a period of sustained growth that included building programs in more than 40 countries in the developing world. Stephen helped establish the Trust's international reputation as one of the largest and most successful organizations using media and communications to improve the lives of the world's poor and promote better governance and transparency worldwide.

Prior to the BBC, Stephen was the Executive Director of the International Council on Social Welfare, an international organization working to promote social development. Stephen has also held positions with nonprofit organizations HelpAge International, Help the Aged, and Voluntary Service Overseas.

Stephen is a board member of CARE International in the U.K. He holds an MA in Oriental and African Studies from the University of London.

SAMMY MUVELAH

Zimele

Sammy Muvelah is a Fund Manager at Zimele Asset Management Company, a pension fund trading on the Nairobi Stock Exchange.

Zimele Asset Management is a registered fund manager with the Capital Markets Authority and the Retirement Benefits Authority. The company also operates the Zimele Unit Trust.

PMuvelah, who has 12 years of experience in investment management and project management, holds a post-graduate degree in Economics from Nairobi University. He began his career as a research and investment analyst.

CHARLES ONYANGO-OBBO

Nation Media Group

Charles "Mase" Onyango-Obbo is a Ugandan author, journalist, and former Managing Editor of The Monitor. He is currently Executive Editor for the Africa and Digital Media Division with the Nation Media Group, in Nairobi, Kenya. He is a political commentator on African issues, with a special focus on East Africa and the African Great Lakes region, and writes columns in The Monitor ("Ear to the Ground"), The East African, and The Daily Nation.

Born in the town of Mbale in eastern Uganda, Onyango-Obbo studied at Makerere University in Kampala, and at the American University in Cairo where he obtained a Master's degree in journalism. In 1991, he was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.

His investigative journalism led to Onyango-Obbo being regularly arrested by the Ugandan government. Onyango-Obbo appeared in court over 120 times between 1997 and mid-2003; more than the combined number of times Ugandan journalists had been in court since the country's independence in October 1962.

PATRICK KURIA

Finance Manager

Patrick is a holder of a Bachelor of commerce (Finance option) honours degree from the Catholic University of Eastern Africa and is a Certified Public Accountant (K) with over seven years of professional accountancy work and consultancy experience in the private sector.

Patrick has been involved in advising various company managements on economic, budgetary, financial and tax risks and opportunities that impact their businesses, as well as in developing systems of internal controls that covers diverse business operations of various firms.

At Buni, Patrick is in charge of accounting and financial reporting. He also participates in and supports the Group's business development strategy.

patrick@bunimedia.com

JULIAN MACHARIA

Business Development Manager

Julian comes from a music and radio background. As a music producer, music remixer and studio engineer, he has worked with Kenya's best artists, including Achieng Abura, Nameless, Jua Cali, Nonini, and Eric Wainaina.

Julian also has a successful career in radio programming and management. He joined Royal Media Services when the company had only one radio station and helped it grow to its current 13, setting up and designing studios, recruiting and training presenters, and ultimately building and maintaining their audiences. He is currently the group Deputy Programs Director.

As Buni's Business Development Manager, Julian is in charge of establishing contacts and partnerships with various companies and organizations, developing Buni's revenue-generating activities, and promoting the Group's products on all media platforms.

Because of his background in sound, Julian also manages all Buni's audio (radio & music) projects, which includes sound designing, music producing. He is also a strong content contributor on The XYZ Show and Africanism 101, bringing exciting ideas to the writing room.

julian@bunimedia.com

IRENE MUKONYORO-LUSWATA

Production Manager

A media industry professional for over 8 years, Irene supervises all Buni production staff and personnel-related issues. She manages and controls production expenditures and, in liaison with the relevant Heads of Department, participates in budget preparations and all relevant planning. Before joining Buni, Irene managed the production and later produced the long-running edutainment TV drama series Makutano Junction through its eleven series run.

Irene's in depth television production experience includes children programming (The Know Zone, 2008-2011), reality TV (pilot for Shamba Shape Up and School Shape Up), documentaries (Striga), and feature films (Toto Millionaire, 2008; Guerilla Boy, 2011). She holds a Diploma in Business Administration (Management) ABEUK.

irene@bunimedia.com