User:KEN STOBER

Ken is the Group Managing Director and CEO and co-founder of Simplifi Networks. Simplifi Networks, formed in 2014 is one of the leading distributors of network and communications equipment in Central and East Africa.

Ken has worked at 3Com, Intel, and Microsoft before starting Simplifi Networks, with roles in Business Development, Marketing, Operations, and Intel Capital.

In 2012, Ken volunteered in Haiti with Inveneo, to help rebuild the Haiti Internet backbone after the 2010 Haiti earthquake, this is where he was exposed to Ubiquiti and Mikrotik products for the first time. In 2013, Ken worked on the USAID project, TZ21, to provide computers to 970 schools across Tanzania.

Ken started and was on the board of the Kilimanjaro Porter Assistance Project, advocating for the mountain porters that climb Mt Kilimanjaro.

Ken is on the board of the Information and Communications Technology Association (ICTA) of Uganda, that promotes Uganda ICT to Uganda, East Africa, and the World.

Ken was born in St Paul Minnesota and currently lives in Kampala, Uganda.