Michael Mithika is the founder of SAM. He is also Principal of J.M. Mantle & Co. Limited, a finance and advisory firm, which he co-founded in 1997, providing merchant banking and specialist consulting services to financial institutions and users of capital in sub-Sahara Africa.
Michael has worked as a consultant specializing development finance; specifically microfinance, including the analysis of financial systems and institutions as they relate to the development of financial services for low-income people.
He works with financial institutions at strategic and operational levels, to position and enable them to make institutional changes in order to deliver market-driven financial services and join the ranks of formal financial institutions.
Michael holds a BSc. Business Administration (magna cum laude). He has Investment Banking training from Euromoney and is accredited by CGAP to train courses in the Microfinance Skills for Managers.
"SAM team was great. Faculty are superb, with great knowledge and ability."
Lazarus Mukasa