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Stima Systems' Group Microleasing Model - Promoting
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How
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Financing Sustainable Enery: An Optimistic View From Niki Armacost
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Climate Scope 2012 Report featuring Arc's Haiti Remittances Project
July 2012 Inter-American Development Bank Report
Can The Microfinance Sector Help Deliver Clean Energy?
May 14, 2012 CGAP Blog
Managing Director and Co-Founder Nicola Armacost on Microfinance
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Kevin Kennedy
Project Manager — East Africa
Kevin Kennedy represents Arc in East Arica, extending our mission to promote end-user financing solutions for renewable energy and water into a new region. He supports new Arc partners with his deep expertise in financing and implementation.
Prior to joining Arc, Kevin served as General Manager and Operations Director at SolarNow in Uganda - a for profit social enterprise selling solar home systems on hire purchase to off grid customers. Before changing his focus to asset financing in developing markets, Kevin spent fifteen years in commercial asset financing, running his own technology leasing company from 2003 to 2008. From 1992 to 2002 he was with GE Capital in a variety of roles in their leasing businesses, including extensive mergers, acquisitions and integration work in the emerging economies of Eastern Europe. As a strong advocate of the potential of asset financing to expand credit for SMEs and micro-enterprises globally, he has published in a number of areas including asset financing and microfinance; the potential of technology to expand asset financing, and the East African leasing market.
Originally from Ireland, Kevin holds a BA from Trinity College, Dublin and a Master's degree from Louisiana State University — both in Zoology. He also holds a Master's in Development Economics from the University of Reading.