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ADRIAN KENYA
“I then found myself working in logistics but serving the telecommuni- cations industry,” he says.
“My early career was moulded by these developments and my roles in FedEx and thereafter DHL. After a couple of years, I quit my position at DHL as the International Business Development Manager to start my own company.
“I was driven by a desire to provide local technology solutions for the industry. In logistics, I felt there was little I could do to change things at the time, but I felt that I could do so in telecommunications and make a difference for myself and others.”
In the present, and sitting as the
CEO of Adrian Kenya, Njoroge manages a company that designs, develops, operates and maintains infrastructure that underpins lives, businesses and economic growth across East Africa.
Adrian Kenya’s projects reflect its high level of quality in the provision of technology and EPC solutions in the East African region.
During early 2020, the company launched the Adrian Technology and Innovation Centre (ATiC) as a platform through which aspiring young individ- uals can launch their careers and enter the technology and telecoms industry.
“We felt that there were a lot of good ideas, but they were not in a
single space,” Njoroge elaborates. “I wanted to build infrastructure
through which talented people with good ideas could come to discover, design, try and implement these ideas so that Adrian could be a conduit for research and innovation in Africa. I strongly believe that for us to improve and innovate we need to strengthen R&D in Africa.”
Njoroge intends for the platform to be a space where Adrian’s developers, and other young innovators from all across the country, come together to solve big contextual problems that governments and the private sector have found limited scalable success in addressing.
AT A GLANCE:
ADRIAN KENYA SERVICES
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Adrian offers design, engineering and maintenance services in tower infrastructure development and
fibre optic deployment. Using their in-house teams of engineers and technicians, they undertake conceptual design, site analysis, site acquisition, construction management, equipment procurement, metro deployment and system integration for their clients. The company has built about 1,000 network towers, are actively maintaining another 1,000 towers, have connected over 3,000 clients to fixed data, and supports over 56,000 home fibre customers. They have also designed and installed thousands of kilometres of fibre-optic, coaxial and data cable enabling wireless communications in the region.
ICT
Adrian provides technology solutions for businesses
in security, networks and communications helping them to accelerate their digital journey. Their portfolio of ICT solutions includes enterprise network solutions, collaboration solutions, physical security solutions, cybersecurity solutions, servers and storage solutions, and data centre solutions. As official partners to leading global technology companies such as Cisco, Giganet, Sophos, Schneider Electric, Oracle, Huawei and Palo Alto Network, Adrian offers high quality digital solutions.
POWER AND RENEWABLE ENERGY
Adrian’s work involves the supply, installation and maintenance of solar photovoltaic systems such
as industrial solar grid-ties and mini-grids; power infrastructure systems like the construction of power substations; power backup systems like high power generators and super capacitors; and stabilisation systems such as rectifiers, inverters and automatic voltage regulators.
But this is not where it started. Adrian’s journey dates back to 2009 when it only offered transport services to Safaricom field engineers. At that time, it worked with a small team of approximately 18 employees each dedicated to making sure the company delivered a superior experience.
Today, Adrian Kenya has approximately 400 employees of whom 18 percent are female and 65 percent are engineers. It also employs another 600 contract workers
who work on projects all
over the country. Adrian’s headquarters are based
in Nairobi, Kenya, from
where it manages
operations within
the country and in
other countries such
as Tanzania, Rwanda,
Uganda, and Ethiopia.
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Benard W. Njoroge, CEO of Adrian Kenya