Alex Mativo

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Alex Mativo
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Alex in 2015
Born21 April 1994 (1994-04-21) (age 29)
Nairobi, Kenya,
Nationality Kenyan
Education African Leadership University
Occupation(s)Founder and CEO at E-LAB, Nanasi, and Ethnic Brand
Years active2014 - present

Alex Mativo (born 21 April 1994) is a Kenyan entrepreneur and fashion designer.

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He is the founder and CEO of [1] [2] E-LAB, [3] a company aimed at eradicating electronic waste in Africa by transforming it into products [4] [5] for the fashion and interior design industry. He is also the recipient [4] [6] of the Queen's Young Leaders Award. [6] [7] [8]

He has two companies. He founded Nanasi [9] which helps businesses and brands sell on all the different social networks using a single platform.

His other company Ethnic Brand [10] is a virtual factory for fashion brands.

Early life

Alex Mativo was born in Nairobi, Kenya grew up in Athi-river. He attended Lenana school in Nairobi.[ citation needed ]

Career

In 2013 Mativo founded E-LAB, [2] [5] [11] [12] [13] [14] to help solve the problem of electronic waste in his community.

In the same year his company E-LAB participated in the Startup open competition was listed among the global entrepreneurship week top 50 most innovative companies in the world by the Global Entrepreneurship week and the Kauffman foundation [15]

He is also the Founder and CEO of the retail company Nanasi. [16] [17] [18]

Enterprise and entrepreneurship

Mativo has spoken to audiences across Africa to share his business start-up story. Notable public speaking appearances include a TEDx [19] [20] talk on why we should embrace design thinking at the African Leadership University in May 2016 alongside the President of the Republic of Mauritius Ameenah Gurib-Fakim .

He was also an attendee of the 2015 "one young world summit" in Bangkok, Thailand where he represented his country Kenya.

Mativo has developed several high impact projects through E-LAB which have resulted in the eradication of 3000 tons electronic waste Across Africa.

His work has been featured on international media houses notably CNN, [11] Al Jazeera, [21] eNCA Africa and the BBC.

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References

  1. ↑ TEDx Talks (20 June 2016), Why the world should embrace design thinking | Alex Mativo | TEDxALC , retrieved 7 July 2016
  2. 1 2 "Kenyan entrepreneur turns e-waste to jewellery" . Retrieved 7 July 2016.
  3. ↑ "Bizrika". bizrika.com. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
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  6. 1 2 "ALC Student Wins the Queen's Young Leaders Award - ALU". 9 December 2015. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
  7. ↑ "Three Kenyans win Queen's Young Leaders award" . Retrieved 7 July 2016.
  8. ↑ "Alex Mativo News & Blogs" . Retrieved 7 July 2016.
  9. ↑ TechMoran (13 November 2018). "Kenya's Nanasi launches to help brands sell on any social media platform". TechMoran. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
  10. ↑ SamWakoba (13 July 2019). ""Uber for fashion" Ethnic Brand raises $500k raises from MAGIC Malaysia". TechMoran. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
  11. 1 2 "Kenya's 'e-Lab' entrepreneurs tell how they are boosting the war against e-waste - CIO East Africa". cio.co.ke. Archived from the original on 25 August 2016. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
  12. 1 2 Loyce, Odo (11 September 2015). "DXD Nominee: Alex Mativo -". Archived from the original on 26 November 2015. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
  13. ↑ Electronics, Sage Sustainable. "One to Watch: Alex Mativo" . Retrieved 7 July 2016.
  14. ↑ "Kenyan entrepreneur turns trash into cash". enca.com. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
  15. 1 2 "Startup Open Top 50". wearegen.co. Retrieved 7 July 2016.[ permanent dead link ]
  16. ↑ "Nanasi".
  17. ↑ "Nanasi launches in Kenya". techmoran.com.
  18. ↑ "Nanasi launches in Kenya". Tech moran.
  19. ↑ "Watch "Why the world should embrace design thinking | Alex Mativo | TEDxALC" Video at TEDxTalks". TEDxTalks. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
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