Ali Hussein Kassim

Ali Hussein Kassim was appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director of Longhorn Publishers Plc in February 2014. He is currently the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of FinteXX Technology – a Pan African Fintech company. He is also a Principal at AHK & Associates which is a Digital Transformation
Consultancy.
He is a Founding Member of Demo Venture, serves as an advisory board member of DEMO Africa and is also a Trustee of the Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) and chairs the National BlockChain Working Group at KICTANet.
Ali also serves as a Board member in Law Africa, a leading Law Publisher in East Africa and Alive & Kicking, a social Enterprise with operations in 3 African countries. His board experience also includes a six-year term as a board member at the Kenya Network Information Centre – the .keRegistry between 2006-2012. He was the founding CEO of Wunderman (Kenya), a Global Digital top ten Agency.
Ali brings to the Board extensive experience in ICT Strategy, marketing, CRM, new media & business development in various industries and has assisted blue chip brands in East Africa (Kenya Airways, Nation Media Group, KREP Bank, Jubilee Insurance, KWFT, Gulf African Bank, Standard Chartered and Sameer Investments among others) with their digital strategies. Ali Chairs the Audit and Risk Committee.