The early years of growing a business are challenging. Honing your product offerings, attracting clients, training staff, keeping financial records... and trying to build momentum to get to the next level. At the same time, you also desire to further your own development as an effective business leader.
We get it.
Designed for businesses which already have momentum, Sinapis’ Fast Track equips motivated, high potential founders to build the structures that can propel their business forward while making an intentional impact on lives and the community. Working with small cohorts of similar staged businesses, we provide a unique nine-month experience oriented towards achieving growth, stability, sustainability, and investment readiness.
Ray Barreth is a serial entrepreneur and has 35 yearsʼ experience creating, directing, and leading SME ventures in the United States, United Kingdom, and Europe. As a serial entrepreneur, Ray has launched six companies from product inception to scale. His companies ranged in size from $40M U.S.to exceeding $100M U.S. in revenue. Ray coached entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and the Silicon Prairie, in the Kansas City Start-Up Village. Ray hasbeen training, coaching, and growing African companies through his Venture Village (V2) GROWTH Lab which operates in Zambia and Nigeria.
Martin is a seasoned business and organizational strategist with over 13 years of experience working with a major Kenyan international company, including leading the innovation hub. Martin is passionate about innovation and co-creation with the start-up/SME ecosystems as a practical and mutually beneficial way of solving existing and emerging business challenges. He has mentored and coached start-ups to build sustainable business models. He believes in pushing boundaries and that impossible is only a figment of our imagination.
As Managing Director, Toby leads Sinapisʼ acceleration and advisory services. He is passionate about seeing entrepreneurs flourish in frontier markets, embracing both building businesses with excellence and intentionally living out their faith and values through their endeavors. Tobyʼs career prior to Sinapis involved working with executive teams of leading domestic and international institutions successfully addressing core strategy and performance issues. As a partner at Deloitte Consulting and Kearney Consulting, he was responsible for building practices and serving Tier 1 clients. His focus-areas included growth strategy development and execution and customer experience enhancement. Toby received an MBA from Harvard University and a B.A. in Economics from Vanderbilt University.
Purity Wainaina is an entrepreneur trainer and coach with over 18 years of experience in financial management, internal audit, risk management, and control systems assessment within national projects, micro-finance, and business accelerators. In the last four years, she has successfully facilitated training and coaching for more than 200 entrepreneurs from various sectors who have subsequently gone on to achieve exponential growth. A recent achievement was designing a business continuity and recovery program to support business growth during COVID - 19. The businesses that participated in this program made changes in their business models that enabled them to realize increased sales despite the depressed market and reduce costs to achieve profitability.
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Discuss your business challenges and goals to see if this is the right solution for you
Gain new levels of traction
Designed for businesses which already have some momentum, Sinapis’ Fast Track equips motivated, high potential founders to build the structures that can propel their business forward while making an impact for the Kingdom. Working with small cohorts of similar-stage businesses, we provide a unique nine-month experience oriented towards achieving growth, stability, sustainability, and investment readiness.
You get to choose which instructional sessions you want to attend based on your areas of need. Come to one or all of the following sessions:
Engage with personally assigned mentors and coaches to gain insights, guidance, and invaluable feedback from experienced industry professionals.
