Team

He brings deep expertise in programme management, operational systems design, and scaling civil society organisations across Africa. His approach combines a systems thinker’s discipline with a practitioner’s pragmatism — ensuring that SITU’s ambitions translate into grounded, deliverable realities.

Before joining SITU, Syakaa held operational and strategic leadership roles across the non-profit, social enterprise, and development sectors in Southern Africa. He is known for building the connective tissue inside organisations — the processes, relationships, and infrastructure that allow teams to move fast without losing coherence.

Wisani has over a decade of experience managing finances for multiple businesses.

At SITU, Wisani supports day-to-day financial operations across the portfolio, including payment processing, expenditure tracking, budget monitoring, financial reporting, invoice and vendor management, and maintaining the financial records required for donor reporting and audit readiness. Wisani also works closely with program teams to provide initiative-level financial information and ensure expenditure can be tracked clearly against approved activities and funding. Through this role, Wisani helps provide the financial infrastructure behind SITU’s fiscal hosting model, allowing initiative teams to focus on delivery while maintaining strong accountability and stewardship of donor resources.

At SITU, Oliver’s focus includes treasury management, cash-flow planning, financial risk, banking and payment structures, and strengthening the organization’s overall financial governance. His role supports SITU’s fiduciary responsibilities and helps ensure that funding can move efficiently to programs and partners while maintaining appropriate oversight, accountability, and compliance.

Oliver brings two decades of experience in finance and operations in Africa. He has served as CFO for multinational African businesses and helped steward their financial and operational growth. Earlier in his career, he held finance roles at Heineken, Nestlé, Airtel, and PwC. Oliver is an ACCA member, holds an MBA from Strathmore University, and a bachelor’s degree from Moi University.

At SITU, Skeeter supports initiatives from incubation through delivery, including program planning, partner and stakeholder coordination, procurement and contracting processes, documentation, and donor reporting. This role is particularly important to SITU’s model of providing initiatives with both a strong institutional home and the practical program capacity required to execute their work effectively.

Skeeter brings over a decade of experience in development consulting, business advisory, and program implementation in Africa, with a focus on supporting organizations and initiatives to turn strategy into practical delivery.