Caroline Wanjiku, is a social entrepreneur and philanthropist with over 13-years’ of experience in corporate development, governance, strategic management, innovative technology consulting, leadership, and product development. 

She started off as the CEO and co-founder of Daproim Africa Limited, Caroline established that there are very few employment opportunities for the youth and embarked on a mission to change this narrative. The Digital Campus Connect program was started with the intention of training and employing bright underserved University Students.

Being a social entrepreneur, she understands the importance of Business being good for the world and was among the first Kenyan entrepreneurs to enlist her organization to be part of the B Corp movement. Later Daproim Africa was recognized globally as one of the organizations creating ripples as a ChangeMaker .

Caroline is bent on successfully guiding her organization to greater heights and as a result, has partaken in several initiatives that have proven beyond a reasonable doubt her expertise and sheer diligence. She was a participant in the Keroche Foundation Academy Season, where she emerged victorious amongst all her other capable young Entrepreneurs.

One not to be slowed down, Caroline applied for the Alibaba E-founders, and, Alibaba says they received around 1,000 African applications for the program, and just a handful of entrepreneurs got the nod to go to east China’s Zhejiang Province for the seminar. Her sole mission was to find out more about Alibaba business ecosystem and the trend in the markets as Chinese E-commerce is really good at using technology and data. 

Caroline understands that staying teachable is the most important skill in this era and enlisted in the Stanford Seed Program where she gets to sap knowledge from the experts, with a vision of expanding her youth employability initiatives to spread to the whole of Africa.

Caroline holds MBA degrees in Strategic Management from the University of Nairobi and an Entrepreneurial Leadership from Portland States University. She is a graduate of the Stanford Seed program from the Stanford Institute of Innovation in Developing Economies. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology. She has also trained with Alibaba Business School and UNCTAD as an e-commerce fellow, as well as with Acumen, Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, International Trade Centre (ITC), and ACCA, Accounting -Finance from the University of Cambridge.