Nat Robinson

Nat Robinson is the former Chief Executive Officer and founder of Juhudi Kilimo Company Limited that provides micro-asset financing to rural smallholder farmers in Kenya. Nat is originally from Colorado but has traveled, worked, or studied in over 60 countries across six continents in the areas of business, nonprofit and government. After working as a financial consultant in China and then in the U.S. for Accenture, he accepted a short-term project in Kenya with the K-Rep Development Agency and the Grassroots Business Fund in 2008. He received a sponsorship from the UNDP and IFC African Management Services Company (AMSCO) to be the company’s CFO, and in 2010 he was appointed to the CEO. Juhudi Kilimo was recognized in 2011 at the World Economic Forum with the Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award and then in 2013 by CIO Magazine’s CIO 100 list of companies using innovative technology to deliver business value. Juhudi Kilimo is supported by investors such as the Acumen Fund, Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Grameen Foundation, and the Soros Economic Development Fund. Nat is a Rainer Arnhold Fellow with the Mulago Foundation, served on the board of the Kenyan Association of Microfinance Institutions. Nat has an MBA from Vanderbilt University in Tennessee and an undergraduate degree from Colorado College. Nat has recently lectured and presented at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Harvard Business School, the Wharton School, Columbia Business School, Vanderbilt Graduate School of Management, and the United Nations Development Program.