Jesse Moore

Jesse Moore is CEO and Co-Founder of M-KOPA, a global leader in empowering homes and small businesses through connected technology. Since its commercial launch in 2012, M-KOPA has pioneered and scaled an advanced pay-as-you-go platform, bringing affordable solar power and digital solutions to over 3 million homes in East Africa. These solutions include lighting, charging, radios, TVs, fridges, and smartphones.

Prior to M-KOPA, he was the Director at the GSM Association in London, where he worked with mobile network operators in Africa and Asia to adopt new business models that drive business growth and benefit low-income consumers, such as mobile money. Early in his career, Moore worked with the international development charity CARE and as a strategy consultant for Monitor Group.

Moore moved to Kenya to start M-KOPA and has overseen the company’s growth from startup to over 2,000 employees and 10,000 sales agents. The company has offices in Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa. M-KOPA has received numerous awards for its innovation, impact and scale, including winning the prestigious Zayed Future Energy Prize; making the coveted MIT Technology Review 50 Smartest Companies list; and being named to both Fortune magazine's Top 50 Companies Changing the World and TIME 100: Most Influential Companies of 2024 lists.

Originally from Toronto, Canada, Moore holds an MBA from Oxford University, where he was a Skoll Scholar, and a BA from the University of North Carolina, where he was a Morehead Scholar. He was selected by the World Economic Forum as one of 100 Young Global Leaders in 2017 and by The Business Daily as one of Kenya’s Top 40 under 40 in 2016.