Joanna Bichsel is the Founder and CEO of Kasha, a digital retail and last mile distribution platform that aims to disrupt the global health industry. Kasha started in Rwanda in 2016 and now also operates in Kenya and South Africa delivering health and household goods in retail and wholesale around the country. Joanna was born in Poland, raised in Toronto Canada, has a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science and has worked on technology solutions around the world. Early in her career, Joanna spent 11 years at Microsoft first as an engineer and later as a business leader. Prior to starting Kasha, Joanna was the Principal Technology Advisor for Global Development at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, working across East and West Africa and South Asia on technology strategies and solutions to optimize the supply chain of vaccines, family planning and other public health commodities, health services delivery, agriculture and fintech. Joanna lives in Nairobi with her husband and two children.