Our Team
Elizabeth Nalugemwa
Co-founder, Strategy, Operations
Elizabeth is a trained entrepreneur and an Obama foundation leader. Growing up as a daughter of a female rural smallholder, she wanted to empower farmers to overcome the challenges she experienced at home.
Sabrina Küspert
Co-founder, Strategy, Marketing
Sabrina is trained in business administration. She grew her passion for smallholders during her time in agricultural finance at KfW-Developing Bank. Currently she is a strategy consultant at BCG.
Lisa Stolleis
Co-founder, Strategy, Finance
Lisa is a trained economist and pursues her masters degree in Public Policy at the Hertie School of Governance. She gained experience in international development as intern and consultant at the GIZ and International Trade Centre of the United Nations.
Merlin Stein
Co-founder, Strategy, Monitoring & Evaluation
Merlin is a trained economist and collected profound experience in Impact Measurement in several projects during his graduate time at Oxford University. He currently works in strategy consulting at BCG.
Ruth Nabweteme
Head of Operations
Before joining Seedloans, Ruth worked with the European Union, advised Education Malaysia and worked for seven years in the banking sector. She studied International Business in Kenya and Malaysia.
Ismail Waiswa
Purchase, Market Access
Ismail has three years of experience in the field of bank sales and marketing and is trained in business administration. He worked over 5 years in the civil society, co.founding the Anti-Corruption International Uganda Chapter and Students Without Borders in Uganda.
David Wako
Field Operations
David is trained in business administration. In the past he worked at Wefarm Uganda, where he gained experience in the coordination of smallholders, enable them access to agricultural information through digital solutions.
Martin Luba
Field Operations
Martin has experience in data and warehouse management and is trained in business administration. He is co-founding the recycling non profit organization Trybe.
Nassuna Nabukera
Agriculture
Nassuna is trained in agri-business at Makerere University. She has strong applied experience in sustainable smallholder farming and breeds seedlings in her private nursery. She has vast experience in training farmers.
Sinduya Jeevaratnam
Agriculture
Sinduya is a trained agronomist in Subtropics. She has a strong background in research and applied experience in sustainable agriculture.
Sebastian Britzke
Finance
Sebastian conducted his Bachelor’s in Business Administration at European Business School (EBS) and is currently pursuing his Master’s at Cátolica Lisbon School of Business and Economics. He currently works as a strategy consultant in Germany.M
Lutz-Heiner Otto
Agriculture
Lutz is currently pursuing his PhD in Agricultural Economics at Hohenheim University (Germany). He specialised in tropical regions and sustainable farming.
Christoph Feucht
Monitoring and Evaluation
Christoph is pursuing his Master’s in Geography at the University of Tübingen, Germany. He first joined Seedloans in 2021 for a research stay in Uganda, diving into the needs of our female smallholders. Prior to that he volunteered for a year on a farm in Kenya.