An independent advisory practice for East Africa's financial and infrastructure markets.
Windhill Consulting EA Ltd provides strategic, financial and governance advisory services to financial institutions, development finance partners and enterprises across East Africa and the wider region.
Multi-disciplinary advisory, built on regional experience.
Windhill Consulting EA Ltd is an independent advisory practice providing strategic, financial, and governance advisory services to financial institutions, development finance partners, and enterprises across East Africa and the wider region. The firm works at the intersection of investment structuring, regulatory analysis, and market development, supporting clients to design and scale financing solutions for underserved sectors — including climate resilience, sustainable infrastructure, and MSME lending.
Windhill Consulting combines hands-on transaction and advisory experience with a working knowledge of regional financial systems, regulatory frameworks, and donor/DFI engagement models, enabling it to translate portfolio-level analysis into practical, actionable recommendations for financial institution partners.
We serve financial institutions and banks, development finance partners and donors, utilities and government agencies, MSMEs and water enterprises, and infrastructure and PPP investors across the EAC/SADC region.
What sets our work apart.
Multi-disciplinary advisory
Strategic, financial and governance advisory in one engagement — investment structuring, regulatory analysis and market development under a single team.
Four decades of associate experience
Over four decades of cumulative associate experience across manufacturing, green mobility, finance, green industrial, ESG advisory and WASH.
Donor & DFI fluency
Working knowledge of regional financial systems, regulatory frameworks and donor/DFI engagement models — from World Bank to AfDB, USAID, AFD, DANIDA, DGIS and GIZ.
Structured portfolio analysis, applied in every engagement.
Structured, Evidence-Based Analysis
Every engagement starts with inception reports, analytical frameworks and data collection tools, followed by structured portfolio data review and stakeholder consultation.
Comparative Market & Regulatory Review
We run comparative desk reviews of regulatory and market frameworks across multiple markets, so recommendations reflect how each jurisdiction actually works.
Decision-Ready Recommendations
Findings are tested in facilitated validation sessions with client and partner teams, then delivered as practical recommendations — financing models and technical assistance priorities included.
A cross-disciplinary bench.
Our teams draw on deep expertise across sectors and disciplines — matched to each engagement's specific challenge.
Explore our expertiseSectors we work across.
Core team.
Led by our CEO, with specialists spanning portfolio assessment, MSME finance and climate-resilient WSS.
Wambere Kibicho
Chief Executive Officer · Portfolio Assessment
- 20+ years in finance & advisory: pan-African transaction advisory, investment structuring and financial modelling.
- Due diligence: financial and operational due diligence, business model assessment and innovative financing design.
- MSME & SME financing: practical financial solutions driving enterprise growth in emerging markets.
- Climate & PPP projects: structuring finance for PPPs, climate-resilient infrastructure and development finance.
- Portfolio & market analysis: portfolio reviews, market and regulatory assessments across multiple countries.
- Multi-country leadership: engaging financial institutions, development partners and public stakeholders.
Felix Omondi
MSME Lead
- 10+ years in MSME programmes: directing donor- and financial-institution-linked enterprise development across Africa.
- Portfolio management: oversight of high-value MSME finance portfolios, including KES 600M+ disbursed across all 47 counties.
- Risk-based advisory: tailored advisory services for banking and finance sector clients.
- Enterprise data: collection, classification and analysis using SPSS, Excel and Kobo/ODK/SurveyCTO.
- Research, M&E & reporting: desk research and monitoring frameworks feeding donor reports and Theory of Change design.
Brian Kimemia
Climate Resilience / WSS Lead
- 15+ years in WASH & climate: leading pan-African work with governments, utilities, financial institutions and private enterprises.
- Policy & strategy: water sector policy, adaptation strategies and long-term investment planning.
- Assessments & preparation: climate-resilient infrastructure assessments, investment plans and business model appraisal.
- Utilities & enterprises: utility performance improvement and market-based sanitation support.
- Capacity building: stronger institutional governance for inclusive, sustainable service delivery.
- Donor engagement: World Bank, AfDB, USAID, AFD, DANIDA and DGIS on SDG 6 and adaptation.
Based in Kenya, working across East Africa.
Windhill Consulting is based in Kenya and works across the East African region, with the ability to engage financial institution partners and stakeholders across Eastern Africa — with geographical experience spanning the EAC and SADC blocs.
Registered. Compliant. Accountable.
- Registered and operating in compliance with applicable Kenyan business and tax regulations.
- Adheres to standard professional conflict-of-interest, confidentiality and data protection practices.
- Able to provide references and past performance records upon request.
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