We present our shareholders and advisors by their professional background rather than by name. Their combined experience covers water infrastructure, agronomy, production engineering and industrial management.
Tunawatambulisha wanahisa na washauri wetu kwa taaluma zao badala ya majina. Uzoefu wao kwa pamoja unahusu miundombinu ya maji, agronomia, uhandisi wa uzalishaji na uongozi wa viwanda.
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Shareholder · Engineer & farmer
Mwanahisa · Mhandisi na mkulima
The water engineer
Mhandisi wa maji
In his seventies. A career engineer with many years in a company building water pipeline systems, and for the last ten years the owner and operator of a 50-acre farm of his own. He knows both what a pump curve means and what a failed rainy season costs.
Yuko katika miaka ya sabini. Mhandisi wa kazi aliyefanya miaka mingi katika kampuni inayojenga mifumo ya mabomba ya maji, na kwa miaka kumi iliyopita ni mmiliki na mwendeshaji wa shamba lake la ekari 50. Anajua maana ya mkondo wa pampu na pia gharama ya msimu wa mvua uliokosa.
02
Shareholder · Agronomy
Mwanahisa · Agronomia
The agronomist
Mtaalamu wa kilimo
Mid-forties. Trained in agronomy and with many years of professional practice as a field agronomist. He is responsible for crop plans, rotation discipline, variety selection and the design of our trial plots.
Miaka ya arobaini. Amesomea agronomia na ana miaka mingi ya kazi kama mtaalamu wa kilimo shambani. Anahusika na mipango ya mazao, nidhamu ya mzunguko, uchaguzi wa mbegu na mpangilio wa politi zetu za majaribio.
03
Shareholder · Production engineering
Mwanahisa · Uhandisi wa uzalishaji
The production engineer
Mhandisi wa uzalishaji
Mid-thirties. A graduate in production engineering, and the youngest shareholder. She works on process organisation, records and cost control — turning field operations into numbers the company can actually manage.
Miaka ya thelathini. Amehitimu uhandisi wa uzalishaji, na ni mwanahisa mdogo zaidi. Anafanya kazi ya kupanga michakato, kumbukumbu na udhibiti wa gharama — kubadilisha kazi za shamba kuwa namba ambazo kampuni inaweza kuzisimamia.
04
Advisor · Academia
Mshauri · Taaluma
The professor
Profesa
Professor at a faculty of chemical and process engineering. He advises on the methodology of our trials, on measurement and on the processing side of our crops — how sunflower seed and grain behave once they leave the field.
Profesa katika kitivo cha uhandisi wa kemikali na michakato. Anatoa ushauri kuhusu mbinu za majaribio yetu, upimaji, na hatua za usindikaji wa mazao yetu — jinsi mbegu za alizeti na nafaka zinavyokuwa baada ya kutoka shambani.
05
Shareholder · Management
Mwanahisa · Uongozi
The manufacturing manager
Meneja wa viwanda
A graduate of chemical and process engineering with many years in senior management positions at manufacturing companies, and since 2016 the owner of his own business. He leads procurement, supplier negotiations and equipment specification.
Amehitimu uhandisi wa kemikali na michakato, ana miaka mingi katika nyadhifa za uongozi katika kampuni za uzalishaji, na kuanzia 2016 ni mmiliki wa kampuni yake. Anaongoza manunuzi, majadiliano na wasambazaji na maelezo ya kiufundi ya mitambo.
Three generations at one table
Vizazi vitatu mezani mmoja
More than thirty-five years separate the oldest and youngest shareholder. Decisions on machinery, rotation and reinvestment are taken jointly, and every major operation is documented so the next generation inherits records, not guesswork.
Zaidi ya miaka thelathini na tano inatenganisha mwanahisa mkubwa na mdogo. Maamuzi kuhusu mitambo, mzunguko na uwekezaji hufanywa kwa pamoja, na kila kazi kubwa inaandikwa ili kizazi kijacho kirithi kumbukumbu, sio kubahatisha.
