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The people building Africa’s language layer.
An African team with roots in the markets SanKam serves, bringing together trade, finance, technology, marketing and responsible AI, guided by an experienced advisory board.
Founders and team
Mariama Kamara
Co-founder and CEO
Mariama leads SanKam’s vision and strategy, driven by a passion for technology, African innovation and unlocking greater opportunities for cross-border trade.
Alfred Sankoh
Co-founder and CFO
Alfred is a qualified accountant and a financial risk and treasury professional. He brings Head of Finance experience and deep insight into African economies.
Dudley Cowan
Technology Lead
Dudley leads SanKam’s technology. He has delivered programmes across the public sector and financial services, and is Director and CEO of the UK software house KawanJay Ltd.
Sidick Kamara
Product Lead
Sidick is a senior ERP consultant in IFS Applications, with more than ten years delivering finance and supply chain transformation across multi-country programmes.
Bundu Bangura
Operations Lead
Bundu is an actuarial science graduate with more than ten years of valuable experience in insurance, catastrophe risk analysis and portfolio management across a range of companies within the Lloyd’s market.
Foday Daboh
Marketing Lead
Foday leads marketing strategy, brand positioning and market expansion. He directs customer engagement and growth initiatives, aligning marketing priorities with the company’s commercial objectives.
Shaz Nordin
Privacy and AI Governance Adviser
Shaz provides strategic leadership on privacy, AI governance and responsible technology, helping shape SanKam’s approach to trust, data stewardship and ethical AI as we build infrastructure for African trade.
Advisory board
Specialists in African trade policy, technology, law and marketing who guide SanKam’s work.
Professor David Luke
London School of Economics
David is professor in practice and strategic director at the London School of Economics Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa, where he oversees a programme on African trade policy. He is a former director of the African Trade Policy Centre at the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), where he led the technical work on the protocols that make up the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement. His research focuses on boosting intra-African trade and how trade policy intersects with industrialisation, inclusion, gender, public health and climate change. His most recent books are How Africa Trades (2023) and How Africa Eats: Trade, Food Security and Climate Risks (2025).
Afzaal Mauthoor
Strategist, investor and deep tech adviser
Afzaal is a strategist, investor and deep tech adviser with a background spanning neuroscience, environmental law and two decades at the frontier of emerging technology. He has co-founded a Web3-backed blockchain company, architected tokenised carbon credit systems, supported over 250 startups and trained more than 5,000 entrepreneurs globally. He is Strategist at Brdge AI (UK venture builder), Chief Business Development Officer at GMF (renewable energy, Africa) and General Partner at BridgCapital (venture capital, Dubai).
Adija Kamara
Financial lawyer
Adija is a financial lawyer with experience in debt and capital markets, infrastructure projects and ESG funding. For over a decade she has worked for leading international law firms in London and Dubai, with a stint in Beijing, and has helped lead multi-billion pound deals. A global citizen, she has led international award-winning pro bono projects and is passionate about socio-economic development.
Mary Koomson
Director of Digital Marketing, RBC Global Asset Management
Mary is Director of Digital Marketing for EMEA, APAC and the US at RBC Global Asset Management, where she leads digital marketing across more than 40 global websites and all outbound digital communications. With 20 years’ experience in marketing automation, analytics and digital transformation, she has led enterprise-scale platform implementations and built marketing measurement frameworks across leading global organisations.
Tomas Andrek
Software architecture and technical leadership
Tomas brings more than 20 years’ experience in software development, architecture and technical leadership across complex public and commercial-sector projects. With expertise in scalable cloud and microservices architectures, he provides strategic technical guidance to SanKam as we build and scale our technology platform.
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