Alexander Odhiambo
Kenyan entrepreneur Alexander Odhiambo has spent the past decade turning Africa’s on-the-ground sales chaos into crisp, data-driven insight. In 2014 he and three classmates bootstrapped Solutech Limited after shadowing delivery trucks that still relied on paper invoices and day-old phone calls. Their answer, Solutech SAT, a cloud-based sales-force-automation suite, now beams real-time route, inventory and order data from 6,000 field agents to the dashboards of more than 60 brands, including Coca-Cola, Crown Paints and Kenafric Industries. Under Odhiambo’s watch as chief executive, Solutech has expanded from a Nairobi bedsit to eight markets stretching from Ethiopia to Zambia, giving manufacturers and distributors visibility that has cut stock-outs by up to 30 percent and boosted sales-rep productivity by double digits.
Known for pairing frugal engineering with relentless client shadowing, Odhiambo is rolling out machine-learning tools that predict shelf gaps before they happen and a plug-and-play API that lets banks layer working-capital loans onto SAT’s transaction feed. He mentors SaaS founders through the iHub accelerator and lobbies policymakers for open infrastructures that can power a pan-African digital supply chain. With a West African launch slated for 2026 and a roadmap toward AI-driven demand planning, Odhiambo is positioning Solutech and the continent’s fast-moving-consumer sector to trade on intelligence rather than instinct.