Job Title: CFO
Company: BasiGo
Jonathan Green is the CFO of e-mobility start-up BasiGo.
He began his career as a pricing intern at American multinational IBM, later joining Grassroots Food as a project manager. Between 2005 and 2010, Jonathan was involved in the development and scaling up of Fesmorroco.com SARL, a contracting and consulting company specialising in restoration of traditional Arab architecture using conservation techniques. Subsequently, he took on the role of researcher and institutional strengthening advisor at the Commonwealth Secretariat before transitioning to Mercy Corps as an agricultural input market analyst.
After leaving the humanitarian non-profit, Jonathan joined Innovations for Poverty Action, where he became project coordinator and later acting director of operations. He served in that capacity for six months before being appointed as business intelligence and strategy director at Fenix International.
He holds an MSc in sustainable development from the University of Exeter and a BSc in financial mathematics from Brunel University of London.
Work experience
Apr 2021 - Present: chief financial officer & co-founder, BasiGo
Jun 2018 - Dec 2019: business intelligence & strategy director, Fenix International
Jan 2013 - Jun 2018: director of operations, Fenix International
Aug 2012 - Jan 2013: acting director of operations, Innovations for Poverty Action
Aug 2011 - Mar 2012: project coordinator, Innovations for Poverty Action
Mar 2011 - Jul 2011: agricultural input market analyst, Mercy Corps
Dec 2010 - Mar 2011: researcher and institutional strengthening advisor, Commonwealth Secretariat
Jul 2005 - Jun 2010: company director, Fesmorocco.com SARL
2010 - 2010: Bristol sustainability intern, Forum for the Future
Apr 2008 - Aug 2008: project manager, Grassroots Food
Aug 2003 - Aug 2004: pricing intern, IBM
Education
2009 - 2011: MSc, Sustainable Development, University of Exeter
2001 - 2005: BSc, Financial Mathematics, Brunel University of London
BasiGo
BasiGo is an electric mobility start-up based in Nairobi, Kenya that leases electric buses to local bus owners. It imports vehicle parts from China and assembles them. So far, 55 of its buses are in operation in Kenya and Rwanda.
