Meet the team working to get energy access out to the last mile

CEO – Affy has a simple vision, let’s get power to everyone really fast so we can unlock another billion minds to contribute to the future

CTO -Loves fostering teams to be the best they can be, deploying processes, metrics and a positive can-do culture with technical know-how, now that’s a recipe for success

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Product Management – Don’t let her smiles fool you, Nithya means serious business making sure our various products are aligned to our sustainability & high impact goals

CFO – Matt is a man full of smarts. He manages Okra’s finances & facilitates the data science team in running various simulations, models and algorithms that form a key part of Okra’s smart grids

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HR & Communications – A company is as good as the people inside of it. Marika takes pride in ensuring the people in Okra are supported to be the best and happiest they can be

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Service Delivery Lead – He knows exactly what is going on in the field and will certainly put every little drop of sweat to the task of empowering end-users through power access.

Manufacturing Lead – Electronics, Hustle, China and making sure our products come off the press on time and reliably for our partners to deploy

Hardware Lead – He wears the leader hat and also the friendly colleague hat. And he’s damn good at being both. Ferg comes from a background in Hardware Design for self driving car equipment

Power Systems Engineer – Hailing from the big smoke of Siemens, Oscar is now an off-grid 50V DC pioneer

Machine Learning Engineer – Helping out NASA for fun on weekends – Gabi works on automating the alerting engine, remote sensing, grid mapping and network planning

Community Engagement (PH) – He is humbly watching out for typhoons and crossing oceans to make sure none of the two affect the electricity access of the community we serve

Administration – Ensuring that not only can Okra keep bringing the light but that the lights stay on at Okra – handling administrative matters to keep the wheels in motion

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Hardware Engineer – Many people have test anxiety, not this man. He works on hardware design and takes the lead on test plans for our electronics

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Firmware Engineer – From the road to the classroom and from one time-zone to the other. Georg is ready to jump on his (PCB) board and chase nasty bugs while working on new exciting features

Hardware Engineer – Testing. Adjusting. And strumming da bass. His name is Sam Bucca, and he’s our main man in China developing quality control machines.

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Senior Hardware Engineer – Considering he already owns a whole hardware setup at his home it wouldn’t be a lie to said that hardware means much more than work to this mastermind

Software Engineer – Outside of the impeccable hairstyle he has an impeccable talent of simplifying complex software challenges. He also proudly holds the credit for the dark mode on Harvest

Community Support – He traveled Australia collecting experienced like others collect stamps only to confirm what mattered to him was to meaningfully support people.