Ecosystem Leadership • Faculty • Pods

Meet the Leadership & Team Behind INAPS WORLD

A multidisciplinary collective of ecosystem architects, academic deans, venture mentors, and verified engineering pod leads powering Africa's sovereign innovation and placement infrastructure.

Executive Leadership

Founding Principles & Strategic Oversight

The core leadership steering statutory compliance, sovereign architecture, pedagogical standards, and capital syndication across INAPS and DIS.

Emma W. Njiru

Emma W. Njiru

Founder & Managing Director • INAPS

Founder and Managing Director of INAPS. Directs institutional fundraising, degree articulation, and nationwide academic placement pipelines, including the flagship TEJATI initiative under Kenya's Ministry of Agriculture.

Orin Brian

Orin Brian

Director & Chief Technology Officer • INAPS

Director and Chief Technology Officer at INAPS. Oversees educational technology platforms, sovereign data architecture, and software systems powering student placement and institutional workflows.

Sylvia Nyawira

Sylvia Nyawira

Director • Corporate Advocacy & Research (CARE) • INAPS

Director at INAPS leading the Corporate Advocacy & Research (CARE) division. Spearheads policy alignment, corporate research initiatives, and strategic advocacy frameworks empowering academic cohorts across Kenyan enterprise and industry sectors.

Bishop Prof. Charles Mbevi Kaloki

Bishop Prof. Charles Mbevi Kaloki

Senior Institutional Systems Consultant • Ecosystem Patron

Senior institutional systems consultant and General Overseer of Eternity Gospel Church & Ministries (EGCM). Designed the foundational 6-tier commercial revenue matrix utilized across INAPS and DIS platforms, advising on enterprise utility infrastructure, statutory policy, and community stakeholder capital.

Glorious Makena

Glorious Makena

Executive Project Manager • INAPS

Executive Project Manager and Personal Manager to Principal Orin Brian. Directs operations governance, fiscal execution, institutional scheduling, and administrative dispatch across all INAPS academic programs and cohort placements.

Statutory & Academic Governance

Advisory Board of Directors

Distinguished academic, policy, research, and philanthropic leaders stewarding accreditation rigor, institutional integrity, and strategic expansion for Innovative Academic Placement Solutions Limited (INAPS).

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Chairman • Advisory Board

Prof. James O. Bukenya

Chairman • Advisory Board of Directors, INAPS

Professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics and Director of the Office of Research Compliance at Alabama A&M University. Directs research compliance, ethics, and international institutional articulations.

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Board Member • INAPS

Janet Maro

Advisory Board Member • INAPS

CEO of Sustainable Agriculture Tanzania (SAT). Directs agroecological research, organic smallholder training hubs, and regional agricultural value chain frameworks.

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Board Member • INAPS

Simon M. Njuguna

Advisory Board Member • INAPS

Former Senior Assistant Director at the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD). Guides competency-based learning harmonization, TVET testing standards, and statutory curriculum alignment.

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Board Member • INAPS

Noordin Qureish

Advisory Board Member • INAPS

Program Officer at the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). Advises on institutional partnerships, food system value chains, and pan-African smallholder productivity acceleration.

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Board Member • INAPS

Dr. Dennis Makau

Advisory Board Member • INAPS

Epidemiologist and Research Associate at the University of Minnesota, and former Director of Programs at Africa Network for Animal Welfare (ANAW). Stewards one-health telemetry and biomedical research.

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Board Member • INAPS

Betty Kibaara

Advisory Board Member • INAPS

Associate Director at The Rockefeller Foundation (Africa Region Office). Provides strategic counsel on catalytic philanthropy, post-harvest loss mitigation, and sustainable youth livelihoods across Africa.

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Board Member • INAPS

Sylvester Safari Ndovu

Advisory Board Member • INAPS

Manager of Technical Training and Research at SACDEP-Kenya. Directs community-level technical instruction, sustainable agroecology field laboratories, and practical vocational apprenticeships.

Emma W. Njiru

Emma W. Njiru

Founder, Managing Director & Board Member • INAPS

Founder and Managing Director of INAPS. Anchors bilateral degree articulation, statutory accreditation frameworks, and national placement initiatives, serving as executive liaison to the Advisory Board.