- About APA
APA is a Nairobi and Vancouver based consulting firm established in 2009 to promote and facilitate foreign direct investments (FDI) in Africa, with particular emphasis on the Eastern Africa countries of Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Rwanda.
We identify opportunities, do market studies, assess risks, conduct due diligence of prospective local partners.
Foreign organizations and investors coming into Africa often have to cope with cumbersome logistics, poor infrastructure, government red tape, recruitment challenges and local governance issues can relegate even the best ideas to failure.
APA offers its services to international investors, including non-profit (social) investors with existing or planned investments in East Africa.
Our aim is to help international companies and social investors to avoid common pitfalls, and to establish their operations quickly and effectively.
We build partnerships between people, governments and the private sector to identify opportunities and access the capital and expertise essential to success.
- Our Principals
Pete qualified as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in 1984 in the U.S. where he began his career as an internal auditor for McDonalds Corporation. He has held senior international positions with a variety of public and private sector organizations including Africa Director for MYC4, Africa Regional Director for Millennium Promise Alliance Inc., CEO of the Eastern Africa Secretariat of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), Africa Director for Oikocredit and Chief Executive Officer for Faulu Kenya. He is a well known public speaker, trainer, writer and television personality.
He has authored two successful books, Starting a Small Successful Business and Africa's Moment.
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The head of APA’s Investment Advisory Services Division is Rajadurai Jeyapaul, an Indian born MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India. Jeyapaul is a highly experienced in corporate affairs, having held positions as Corporate-in-Charge for four major companies and Personal Advisor to the Chairman of the biggest corporate-body in Kenya.
He was CEO of two airline systems and Deputy Director of a major seaport in India, where he is credited for turning the port around from an annual loss of US$ 20 million to an annual profit of US$ 15 million in 2 ½ years by changing the organisational and operational structures and installing a strong sense of purpose. He has restructured organisations of different scales and grades for viability and growth and is familiar with mathematical and statistical techniques, and the culture, issues and challenges of Africa.
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Cherie Enns Cherie Enns is Director, International Partnerships for APA. She is also a co-founder and Director of Making Africa Work, a non-profit, social enterprise supported by APA. She is trained as a community planner and is experienced both in contract negotiation as well as grass roots training and development. She has lived and worked in Kenya and have undertaken consultancy assignments in several other African countries.
Cherie teaches international development at the University of Fraser Valley in Vancouver, Canada and has over 25 years of planning and research experience in Canada, United States, India and Eastern Africa. Her expertise is in the area of project design and development and she brings to APA her extensive network and passion to see transformative change in lives of African people.