Tony Roberts
Chief Executive Officer

Tony's interest in applying ICT to international development began when he volunteered as a computer trainer in Nicaragua in 1988 via the organistion CODA International. He went on to become Executive Director of CODA where he spent 10 years - much of it living and working in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa.

Tony then spent four years at UEL as a lecturer - teaching across a range of Batchelor of Science degree programmes assessing the relationship between new technology and social change.

Tony founded Computer Aid International in 1998.

Helen Macfoy
Finance Manager

As the Finance Manager, Helen is responsible for the financial management of Computer Aid International. Helen has over fifteen years’ experience of working in UK charity finance in both paid and voluntary positions.

Prior to joining Computer Aid, Helen previously worked as the Finance & Administration Manger at Centre 404, a charity that provides services for people with learning difficulties & their families.Helen is ACIS qualified and is presently doing further accounting studies.

Samia Zoued
International Programmes Officer

Samia is responsible for building awareness, developing and maintaining relationships with Computer Aid's recipients in Latin America and Africa. She also processes large applications of computers in French and Spanish from not-for-profit organisations in developing countries and helps the International Development team in Nairobi, Kenya increase the number of PCs reaching beneficiary organisations.

Prior to working with Computer Aid, Samia worked in the commercial sector including Ernst & Young.
She then gained experience within the voluntary sector by working for Non Violence Peace Force on the Palestine-Israel conflict and the British Red Cross Refugee Services.

Samia studied in France, Spain and Scotland where she obtained a Masters in Business studies, a degree in International Business and a degree in Project Management and Economics. Samia also speaks fluent Arabic.

Gladys Muhunyo
Assistant Director: Africa Programme

Gladys Muhunyo is the most senior member of staff at Computer Aid's Africa HQ in Nairobi from where she oversees the organisation's expanding programme of work across the continent.

Originally a teacher and then the manager of an internet service provider, Gladys was recruited as Computer Aids first ever East Africa Programme Officer, since when she has risen through the ranks to become Assistant Director: Africa Programme.

"Enabling organisations to achieve the practical benefits of ICT gives me great joy", says Gladys, "and I am continually learning of new ways to bridge the digital divide."

Gladys has 14 years experience in the field of ICT for Development, travelling widely across Africa and personallly contributing to many projects applying affordable ICTs to education and social development.

Anne Musyoki
West Africa Programme Manager

As West Africa Programme Manager Anne is responsible for building awareness of Computer Aid in Benin, Gambia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Togo. She is responsible for building and maintaining relationships with recipients, as well as creating and maintaining partnerships.

Born in Kenya, she lived in the United States for six and half years, where she worked as a Technical Trainer with the Computer Technology Institute. Throughout her stay in the United States, she volunteered with several NGOs in community development projects.

Anne is a graduate of La Salle University, Philadelphia where she earned an MBA in Information Technology.

Benjamin Makai
East Africa Programme Manager

Benjamin oversees Computer Aid International's work in East Africa, including Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Somalia and Sudan. His role involves liasing with partners and recipients of computers, as well as building awareness of Computer Aid.

Benjamin has over a decade of experience in ICT, in both the ICT4D and the private sector. Before joining Computer Aid, he worked as an ICT officer for the Kenyan Government on a joint initiative with the European Union to alleviate poverty through tourism development. He also worked on the Kenya ICT Policy Project, as well as working with not-for-profit organisations Plan International and Pelum Kenya, and for major Kenyan telcommunications companies Safaricom and Flashcom.

He holds a BSc in Computer Sciences from Egerton University and various IT certifications. He is currently pursuing an MBA and a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) qualification.

Charles Juma
Projects Manager

Charles is responsible for the project cycle of a range of ICT4D projects in areas such as e-Health, e-Learning, e-Libraries, e-Agriculture, e-Inclusion etc.  Charles has over 10 years of experience in international development as well as ICT for Education and Development in the areas of planning, design, implementation, management, evaluation and close out

Prior to his work with Computer Aid International, he was a Projects Specialist with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission in Kenya,  responsible for setting up and managing all matters pertaining to Infrastructure for Development that included ICT4D. Some of the ICT projects that Charles initiated and led include: the On-line Community Learning Centers-“Mawasiliano vijijini”, ICT capacity building project for the NGOs Coordination Board in Kenya, E-learning digital content development and integration project in partnership with Mindset South Africa and Kenya Institute of Education, informed the National ICT in education 2003-2006 Strategic Plan, ICT integration in 20 Public Primary Teacher Training Colleges, Public Private Partnership (PPP) involving GOK/USAID/Microsoft/Cisco/Intel/Multi Choice Africa.

Charles holds a Masters degree in Organizational Development and a Bachelors in Information Systems and Technology, all gained from United States International University (USIU). He also has specialized training and certifications in Building construction engineering from The Kenya Polytechnic University.

Arnold Wafula
Southern Africa Programme Officer

Arnold Wafula is Computer Aid's Southern Africa Programme Officer with responsibility for Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Swaziland, South Africa and Namibia.

Arnold is a communications specialist and has lived and worked in Zambia, South Africa, Nigeria as well as Kenya. His experience includes working as a consultant for UNICEF; a journalism  trainer for BBC World Service; an on-line editor for One World Africa and, most recently as a project advisor for Farm-Africa. Arnold is currently pursuing an MBA.

Anja ffrench
Director of Marketing and Communications

Anja is responsible for marketing and communications at Computer Aid. Anja also develops relationships with companies, local authorities, government departments and educational institutions interested in donating their IT equipment to Computer Aid. The supply of PCs is vital to Computer Aid's work to enable schools and community organisations in the developing world to take advantage of the benefits of ICT.

Before working at Computer Aid, Anja was at CRISP, a sustainable development charity, where she worked on a computer reuse project. Prior to this she worked for the Resource Alliance, a charity helping to build the fundraising capacity of the voluntary sector worldwide. Anja holds an MSc in Development Studies.

Deirdre Maguire
PC Donations and Marketing Officer

Deirdre's main responsibilities are to develop relationships with potential donors of PCs in the UK and to implement marketing strategies to increase awareness of Computer Aid's services within the UK. Deirdre is also responsible for Computer Aid's cartridge and mobile phone recycling scheme.

Prior to working at Computer Aid, Deirdre held various roles in the voluntary sector; focusing on community development she worked for Sheffield Women's Education and Training, and the Federation for Community Development Learning and she volunteered with The Northern Refugee Centre. More recently Deirdre worked in fundraising at Remember A Charity.

Oliver Lloyd
Digital Marketing Officer

Oliver is responsible for Computer Aid's digital communications. Through running Computer Aid's online activities, Oliver helps raise the charity's profile and increases awareness of its services in the UK. Oliver also develops relationships with potential IT donors in the UK, so as to increase donations of PCs, monitors and laptops to the charity.

Before joining Computer Aid, Oliver worked in marketing and media communications within the private and not-for-profit sectors. His private communications experience involved working with both clients and agencies within a number of industry sectors; previous not-for-profit experience involved managing the communications of the ARCHIVE Institute, an international health and housing NGO. Oliver also spent time living and working in India, assisting with marketing for a grass routes rural development NGO in the state of Rajasthan.

Oliver graduated with a BA in Marketing from the University of the West of England.

Lara Pattison
PC Donations and Marketing Assistant

Lara volunteered with Computer Aid’s marketing team before taking on a full-time, temporary role this spring. She is responsible for individual donations, and assists in raising the organisation’s profile and establishing new donors, regularly updating Computer Aid’s website and social media networks.

Before working at Computer Aid, Lara spent time travelling in Central Asia and working as an actor in Mumbai, India. She has worked in the marketing department of The York Theatre Royal, and holds a Drama Degree from the University of Manchester.

Jon McCullough
PC Donations and Logistics Officer

Jon's main responsibility as PC Donations and Logistics Officer is to provide a front line service for Computer Aid International in order to facilitate the collection of IT Equipment from companies, universities and government departments who wish to donate their IT equipment to Computer Aid.

Prior to working with Computer Aid, Jon worked for Frontier/The Society for Environmental Exploration, an international non-for-profit organisation in the UK, handling logistics and project management duties for their environmental conservation research programmes in developing countries. He has also worked on a voluntary basis for Project Dirt, a social networking website, co-ordinating green people and projects in London and the Sustainability Unit of Lambeth Council in London. He has a BSc in Biology from the University of Victoria, is a keen environmentalist and supporter of all things green.

Haley Bowcock
Environmental Advocacy Officer

Haley is responsible for Computer Aid’s advocacy work surrounding the WEEE directive, which includes e-waste, reuse and recycling; she also assists in developing and advocating for e-waste legislation in the Balkans.

Computer Aid is a strong advocate for the sustainable use of EEE and the organisation continues to create awareness in the UK about the environmental importance of re-use over recycling. Computer Aid has actively lobbied the UK government to put a stop to the dumping of the UK’s e-waste in developing countries which we continue to raise awareness of.

Haley has an interest in how global and regional level environmental policy is realised at national level, particularly in developing countries and emergent economies. Prior to joining Computer Aid, she worked as Communications Officer for food and agriculture at Oxfam Great Britain and as Sustainability Research Officer at Adaptation Environmental Support in Sydney, Australia. She has a BSc in Biology with Honours from the University of Sydney and an MSc in Nature, Society and Environmental Policy from the University of Oxford.

Stephen Campbell
Director of Fundraising

Stephen is responsible for developing and writing funding applications in conjunction with our partners to deploy refurbished PCs in volume to schools and universities. He also works with NGOs developing joint projects across a broad spectrum of development activities.

Stephen is in charge of finding new financial donors on behalf of our partners and submitting funding applications to medium to large-sized trusts and foundations. Prior to working with Computer Aid International, Stephen worked on a voluntary basis for two UK-based overseas development organisations, involved in fair trade and rights-based advocacy projects.

Maurizio Borgatti
Corporate Partnerships Officer

Maurizio  is Corporate Partnership and Events Officer which involves the management of all CAI challenge events and the generation of new fundraising revenue streams and donations from the Corporate sector.

Over 20 year’s commercial experience in areas such as the set up and management of Telemarketing Teams, Marketing and Key Account Management. Telecoms experience includes creative marketing in the mobile and telephony sectors and work on TV, national newspapers and magazine services. Qualifications include the Chartered Institute of Marketing Diploma and Diploma’s in Business and Finance. First charity role was as Trust and Corporate Fundraiser at international development charity Children in Crisis.

Marcos Gomes Da Silva
Director of Operations

Marcos is responsible for the running of Computer Aid Operations which includes ICT, Production, Warehouse and Administration. The main goal of the Operations team is to ensure that all equipment received is processed to the highest standards, from the time of its arrival at Computer Aid’s premises until the time it is dispatched to our beneficiaries across the globe.

Prior to joining Computer Aid, Marcos spent 5 years working for another London based organisation dealing in IT reuse and recycling.

Marcos holds a BSc in Computer Science and worked for Sao Paulo’s biggest Electricity supplier for 13 years.

David Griffiths
General Production Manager

As General Production Manager, David is responsible for managing all aspects of production at Computer Aid's London workshop.  David manages the day to day running of the production facilities, which includes taking deliveries of PC donations, stock management, asset tracking, data wiping, refurbishing and upgrading, packaging and dispatch of Computer Aid's PCs and laptops to
its projects overseas.

Before working at Computer Aid, David was a self-employed Analyst / Programmer, following 12 years working in the software industry. David initially worked as a volunteer at Computer Aid before being hired as a permanent member of staff in 2006.

Kinfe  Tekle
Workshop Production Manager

Ken is responsible for taking in PC donations from companies and processing and shipping them to recipients overseas. He initially worked as a volunteer for Computer Aid, before being employed full-time in 2005.

Sylvie  Joli
Trilingual Administration Assistant

Sylvie is responsible for administering and maintaining the system for assessing and processing all applications for computer donations in French, Spanish and English, getting quotes for shipping and sending proforma invoices. She is also responsible for ensuring that all incoming communications are dealt with in the appropriate manner.

Prior to working with Computer Aid, Sylvie worked as an interpreter for asylum seekers. She also helped set up, and managed all administration for, PC Galore ltd.

Sylvie studied in France and England and spent time living in Brazil. She is a member of the Institute of Linguists and holds a diploma in Public Service Interpreting. She also speaks fluent Portuguese.

Hitesh Chauhan
ICT Manager

As the ICT Manager, Hitesh's main responsibilities are the maintainance of internal network systems and communication equipment. His work involves the application of proprietary and open source software both within Computer Aid International and for implementation on refurbished PCs.

Hitesh joined Computer Aid International, first as a volunteer and then as the ICT Manager in 2003.

Ugo  Vallauri
Technical Consultant

Ugo contributes to the development of new projects and services to assist the needs of Computer Aid's partners. His main areas of expertise are low-power computing, alternative power solutions and free and open source assistive technologies.

Before joining Computer Aid, Ugo worked in Italy for the not-for-profit organisation Slow Food on communication for sustainable agricultural development, and consulted for the United Nations on ICT for African parliaments. He has also been involved in various new media and independent journalism projects.

Ugo holds a degree in Communication Studies from the University of Bologna, Italy. He is currently working on a PhD on mobile technologies for rural agricultural development with the ICT4D Collective at Royal Holloway, University of London.