Mrs. Anne Kimari is currently the Managing Consultant, Finebridge Associates Limited, a Consulting House that provides Financial and Business Advisory Services and outsourced services to SMEs and Microfinance service providers.

Anne is a career Accountant and has significant experience in the Corporate, SME, Microfinance and NGO Sector.  She was the immediate past  Chief Operating Officer at the African Academy of Sciences a Pan-African diplomatic mission that works with African Union as a think tank and platform for Science Research in topical issues affecting the continent.   She has held the position of  Chief Finance Officer at Faulu Kenya Microfinance Bank (Faulu) and was involved in the transformation process of Faulu as the Project Manager. She went on to become the Chief Executive Officer at Jitegemee Trust, a wholesale lender to institutions serving Microfinance Service Providers.

Anne, has trained with a joint UNCTAD, Asia Development Bank and World Bank programme, as a Microfinance Trainer of Trainer, and with the Frankfurt School, Germany on SME banking.  Through her firm, she has provided consultancy services to several Microfinance Clients seeking to transform from Credit providers to come under regulation by Central Bank of Kenya.   She has given service to a number of Microfinance Institutions as well as SMEs in Strategy, Business Planning and Advisory services.

Anne also serves on the boards of World Vision Kenya, Kenya Community Development Foundation and Juhudi Kilimo, a microfinance firm and chairs the Harvest Herald Ministries a Christian missionary body, she attends St Francis ACK Church where she serves on the Sunday School steering committee.

She is born again and believes in living a life of integrity.

Anne is Married and has two Teenage children.