"At the time of my intern year, the graduate training programme, which ran for two intensive years and hosted by the then publicly owned utility was a public entity."

"This exposed me to the entire business."

"Today I am managing 600 permanent employees and 1,000 contracted staff."

"I am proud to be the first female Executive Director to the board of Umeme Limited, a company and sector for which I hold so much passion."

"Through my efforts together with the Umeme team, the country has been able to more than double the number of households."

"That are connected to electricity over the past 10 years."

"The increase in access to electricity has improved the livelihood of households and communities and Uganda and has been."

"We have close to 1,500 people benefiting from the project."

"I think I’ve evolved over the years, but right now, I’d call myself a passionate learner of life."

"My entire career has been around advertising, communications and marketing, but I just have a passion and a zest for life, for brands and for people."

"Those three pillars; life, brands and people, that’s who I am."

"I am a graduate, of journalism."

"I graduated from Makerere University."

"I having my career then evolving into advertising; working with advertising agencies and then going into marketing and communications as my broad field of specialization."

"That’s who I am."

"From what people see from the professional side, I’m a lover of sports."

"I also like to see myself as a believer in people."

"I do quite a bit in terms of mentoring and lifting people up."

"Any opportunity I get to lift others is a gift."

"I take that with a big spoon."

"I am a Jesus lover and that really underpins my values as a person."

"What else can I say about me?"

"I’m into public speaking, I take any opportunity, like every week, I am speaking to some people."

"I’m frequently doing public speaking engagements."

"I and the microphone can’t be put apart."

"I’d describe my childhood as ‘very protected and yet very instrumental in who I am today’."

"Why do I say protected?"

"I say protected because my parents did their level best to afford us the best of what they could offer."

"I come from a huge extended family, and so there were always big cousins around, and protected in terms of when I look back now, in terms of privilege, because there’s so much that we could do that the average family could not do at the time."

"That’s why I’ll say protected."

"When I say very pivotal in who I am today, it also made me very independent because I was put in boarding school when I was seven years old."

"Once you’re put in boarding school at a very young age, you’ve got to figure out life on your own quite early."

"That, then, made me be in a protected environment and yet helped me develop into a very independent person."

"When I look back at my childhood, I’ve got fond memories of big family gatherings."

"I’ve got fond memories of being in a private British school in Kenya."

"I’ve got fond memories of childhood friends that I can no longer trace, because we were in this private British school."

"Once you come into secondary school, then you start forming lifelong relationships, especially from my secondary school and those are the lifelong relationships that I have now."

"I have fond memories of growing up in Kenya, Nairobi."

"Even when I go there now, I smell the air and it brings back childhood memories."