Microsoft has appointed Angela Nganga as country lead for East Africa, filling a leadership position that has been vacant since January.
Nganga takes over from Phyllis Migwi, who exited as Microsoft's Kenya Country Manager after three and a half years in the role.
A long-serving member of Microsoft's Middle East and Africa Emerging Markets leadership team, Nganga joined the company in 2012 and is based in Nairobi.
She most recently served as regional director of customer success for East and West Africa, where she led customer success, digital transformation and strategic engagements across the two regions.
Earlier in her Microsoft career, she held the roles of director of corporate affairs for the Middle East and Africa, and education industry director for Africa, giving her exposure to both public sector and enterprise-facing parts of the business.
In her new role, Nganga will lead Microsoft's engagement with governments, enterprise customers and the startup ecosystem across Kenya and the wider East Africa region, with a stated focus on AI skills development, workforce readiness and locally relevant technology solutions.
"I am delighted to lead Microsoft's work in East Africa as the region strengthens its position as an innovation and AI hub," said Nganga. "I look forward to partnering with governments, enterprise and the local startup ecosystem to build AI skills and workforce readiness, and to help partners develop and scale locally relevant solutions to real-world challenges."
"Enabling East African companies to become producers as well as consumers of AI innovation is essential to its success in the global digital economy," she added.
Before joining Microsoft, Nganga held senior corporate affairs and public policy roles at Telkom Kenya and AAR Health Services, bringing more than 20 years of experience across technology, telecommunications, healthcare, public affairs and policy to the role.
Over her career she has built government partnerships and supported digital transformation and AI adoption efforts across multiple sectors.
The appointment comes at a pivotal infrastructure moment for Microsoft in the region, with the company preparing to bring East Africa's first Azure cloud region and a geothermal-powered data centre online.
Microsoft framed the appointment as part of its ongoing commitment to East Africa's digital economy, pointing to the region's youthful population, growing startup ecosystem and existing strengths in mobile technology and fintech as reasons it is well positioned to lead in AI-driven solutions across Africa.
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