ADRIAN NZAMBA

• Responsible for day-to-day operations, partnerships, market expansion and overall business development for a fast-growing EdTech and AI learning platform used across Tanzania.
• Worked closely with teachers to understand the challenges they faced, which led to improvements in the product and expansion from 150 to 314 schools across 14 regions.
• Supported the platform’s growth to more than 250,000 parents who now use it to follow their children’s progress.
• Contributed to increasing the company’s annual revenue from 7 million TZS to 21 million TZS within one year through a customer-involvement approach that focused on the needs of parents and teachers.
• Helped guide the development of the MVP by incorporating insights from teachers who used early versions of the tool.
• Ensured new features met government requirements before being introduced to schools.
• Raised seventy thousand USD through the MasterCard Foundation EdTech program.
• Took part in evolving the platform from a basic school results tool to a parent engagement system and now to an AI-supported tool that assists teachers with disabilities.
• Worked within an informal education value chain where adoption depends on trust, relationships and clarity of value, similar to Tanzania’s informal food ecosystem.

• Established and lead TAYARI, a technology company serving restaurants and food businesses in Tanzania’s informal hospitality sector. Responsible for the company’s overall strategy, product development, partnerships and market expansion.
• Spent time in the field with restaurant owners and staff to understand operational challenges and unmet needs within the food service value chain.
• Created and tested the prototype with early customers, refining the solution through direct feedback.
• Built a customer base that grew from one restaurant to more than forty, working closely with owners to understand usage patterns and adoption barriers.
• Developed the product into a functional MVP through continuous iteration with active users.
• Introduced the product into the market and guided the early testing period to observe real-life usage.
• Led the company to more than one thousand orders and over ten million TZS in revenue.
• Raised sixty thousand USD in investment to support expansion and product improvements.
• Oversaw the company’s transition from a dine-in digital solution to a restaurant point-of-sale platform after analysing customer behaviour and the economic realities of informal food businesses.
• Gained significant understanding of how Tanzania’s informal food value chains operate, including purchasing patterns, cashflow pressures and decision-making on the ground.

• Led the design and implementation of entrepreneurship and capacity-building programmes for youth, SMEs and early-stage entrepreneurs.
• Designed training curricula using participatory and human-centred approaches.
• Delivered entrepreneurship, problem-solving, creativity and leadership training across the country.
• Created monitoring tools to assess learner progress and programme effectiveness.
• Managed budgets, trainers and partnerships while ensuring programmes met donor and beneficiary expectations.
• Supported many early-stage entrepreneurs who were building their first products or exploring their first markets.

• Co-founded a national platform that promotes social entrepreneurship.
• Coordinated monthly forums bringing together social entrepreneurs, industry leaders and young innovators.
• Supported early-stage social entrepreneurs with coaching and idea development.
• Raised support for initiatives and helped build a national community of young founders.

I mentored entrepreneurs from Tanzania who are seeking funds for entrepreneurial growth.

• Conducted assessments to identify mentees' strengths and areas for improvement in their ventures.
• Guided mentees through the process of market research to validate their business ideas.

• Worked on a major community data programme in Temeke, Mbeya Urban and Kyela districts.
• Designed community engagement approaches at the ward and district levels.
• Trained local leaders, community groups and youth networks on decision-making using local data.
• Facilitated brokering sessions between community members and authorities.
• Created tools used for participant recruitment, training quality checks and monitoring.
• This work strengthened experience engaging informal and rural communities, which is central to understanding agricultural and food-system realities in Tanzania.

• At the same time, I conducted Training of Trainers courses, Global Volunteers courses, Social Media courses, and Social Entrepreneurship courses.
• Utilized various instructional techniques to accommodate diverse learning styles and backgrounds.
• Evaluated training effectiveness through participant feedback and performance metrics to drive program improvements.

• Charged with the task of updating and running TYC's blog and occasionally going out to the field to conduct training for our partners.
• Coordinated community outreach initiatives to engage young people in local decision-making processes.

• Supported the establishment of youth SACCOS in Lindi and Mtwara, building early understanding of rural livelihoods, income patterns and microfinance in farm-dependent communities.