Executive Profile: Peter Schokker, Felix Mulwa and Milton Maingi, Board of Directors Kibo Africa

Peter Schokker

Peter Schokker is a seasoned international executive with more than 25 years of leadership experience in business turnaround, organisational restructuring, and performance transformation across Africa and Europe. A Dutch national and EU citizen, he is globally mobile and has built a distinguished career operating in complex, high-risk environments from post-crisis NGO offices and capital-intensive oil and gas projects to frontier-market manufacturing ventures. He is known for his calm, decisive leadership style, his financial rigour, and his consistent ability to restore institutional health and build management teams capable of sustaining long-term performance independently.

Peter is currently Director and Shareholder of Kibo Motorcycles, a Kenyan-Dutch motorcycle manufacturer operating across East and West Africa. Since joining in January 2024, he has led a comprehensive organisational reset, restructuring Board governance, simplifying management layers, and delivering a 50 percent reduction in overhead costs. He has streamlined the company’s end-to-end supply chain, redesigned the product portfolio to improve fit with African market needs, and spearheaded the company’s strategic shift from an engineering-led organisation to a customer- and service-oriented business. Under his leadership, Kibo has expanded its dealer and service networks in Kenya and successfully launched operations in Ghana, marking a significant step in the company’s West Africa growth strategy.

Prior to Kibo, Peter spent seven years with SNV Netherlands Development Organisation, one of the world’s leading international development agencies, where he held the role of Director covering Finance, Operations, Programme Management, ICT, and Procurement across East and Central Africa. His most defining contribution at SNV was guiding the Kenya office through a successful post-donor transition to full financial independence, achieving approximately 60 percent revenue growth while simultaneously strengthening governance, compliance, and enterprise risk management systems. He also served as Interim Director across Rwanda, Zambia, Tanzania, and Mozambique, stepping into leadership vacuums to restore operational integrity and stakeholder confidence across multiple country offices.

Earlier in his career, Peter held leadership and financial management roles in the oil and gas and infrastructure sectors in Nigeria and Angola. At Seven Energy in Lagos, he managed a USD 2 billion capital investment portfolio and led cost optimisation initiatives that reduced OPEX and G&A by approximately 30 percent during the oil price downturn. At West African Ventures, he stabilised the delivery of a USD 450 million offshore pipeline project for Chevron and secured a USD 90 million contract while acting as General Manager. At Heerema Marine Contractors in Angola, he oversaw cost control and scheduling for a USD 150 million marine base project and contributed to early-stage controls for a USD 1.4 billion offshore vessel programme. His career began in the Netherlands, where he held project controls and management roles at the Ministry of Defence, the City of Rotterdam, including the major Randstad Rail infrastructure programme and Van Gend & Loos (DP/UPS).

Peter holds an MSc in Economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam and is a PRINCE2 Practitioner. His extensive cross-sector and multi-country experience spanning social enterprise, development, oil and gas, automotive, transport, and infrastructure across Anglophone Africa, including Ghana, Nigeria, Angola, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Zambia, and Mozambique, positions him as one of the most experienced turnaround and transformation executives operating across African and European markets today.

Milton Maingi

Milton Maingi is a dynamic and accomplished commercial leader with over twelve years of professional experience spanning automotive sales management, market development, and community-driven development programmes across East Africa. He is currently the Commercial Director and Shareholder of Kibo Africa Limited, a Kenyan-Dutch motorcycle manufacturer committed to delivering safe and reliable mobility solutions across the African continent. In this capacity, Milton oversees the company’s full commercial strategy, including sales operations, dealer network development, institutional partnerships, market expansion, and customer engagement across Kenya, Uganda, and West Africa.

Milton is widely recognised for his ability to build commercial infrastructure from the ground up. At Kibo Africa, he established the entire sales department recruiting and managing a fourteen-person sales team, setting up five retail centres across Kenya, implementing a CRM system, and developing a network of financial institution partners including banks, SACCOs, and leasing agencies. Under his commercial leadership, the company generated KES 290 million in motorcycle sales within its first two years of operations, successfully launched into the Ugandan market, and secured significant government and institutional contracts through competitive tendering.

Prior to Kibo Africa, Milton held senior sales roles at CFAO Group’s DT Dobie one of East Africa’s most established automotive dealerships where he managed the SYM Motorbikes brand, activated a national dealer network, spearheaded safety riding campaigns targeting the boda boda sector, and handled institutional and fleet sales across Kenya. His consistent performance in the field led to his promotion from Sales Supervisor to Sales Manager within a year.

Milton’s professional journey is equally distinguished by impactful development work. As Project Manager of the USAID-funded VCAC Project, he oversaw a multidimensional community development initiative that built the economic capacity of over 30,000 smallholder farmers and helped more than 20,000 rural households double their farming incomes. He subsequently served as Operations Manager at Kenya Promotions and Marketing Company, where he championed the adoption of hermetic storage technology across Kenya and Tanzania a practical innovation that dramatically reduced post-harvest losses and improved food security outcomes for farming communities.

A recipient of the UNEP Seed Award 2010, Milton has been recognised internationally for his contributions to community development and agricultural innovation. He has contributed to FAO research on smallholder maize marketing, served on Kenya’s Ministry of Agriculture Post-Harvest Expert Advisory Board, represented the Kenyan private sector on the Sub-Saharan Africa Committee on Post-Harvest Management, and presented at the International Scientific Symposium on Food and Nutrition Security in Rome. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Human Resource Management from Kenyatta University, a Diploma in Public Relations from the Institute of Chartered Management, and is currently pursuing an MBA at Kenya Methodist University. He is also a certified Expert in Sales from Kenneth Smit London and a Master Trainer in both Financial Education and Hermetic Technology.

Felix Mulwa

Felix Mulwa is a seasoned operations and transformation leader with over 23 years of experience across diverse industries, bringing extensive expertise in human resource management and related fields, alongside a strong track record in building scalable, high-performance organisations.

He currently serves as a Director at Kibo Africa, where he plays a pivotal role in translating strategic vision into practical execution. His work focuses on designing and strengthening reliable operating systems that enable growth at scale — spanning supplier coordination, logistics optimisation, people management, process design, and post-delivery customer experience. Felix works closely with technical, commercial, and board-level stakeholders to ensure alignment between strategy and execution on the ground.

Felix has held roles with leading multinational organisations, including Bolloré Africa Logistics and Weetabix, where he developed deep expertise in performance management, operations excellence, organisational development, and large-scale transformation initiatives.

Before his current role, he held senior leadership positions, including Head of Human Capital, where he led organisational development, talent strategy, and culture transformation initiatives.

He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Human Resource Management, an MBA in Strategic Management, and an MBA in Marketing, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Leadership, reflecting his continued commitment to advanced learning and executive development.

Beyond his corporate responsibilities, Felix is a passionate career mentor, coach, motivational speaker, and trainer, dedicated to empowering individuals and teams to achieve their full potential.