Daniel Huba is the Head of Community Pass Africa, Mastercard.
As the African Head, Daniel oversees the Community Pass strategic rollout including market target operating model design and execution; business development; stakeholder and customer management; and platform implementation. Community Pass is currently live in the following Africa markets, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Nigeria and Ghana.
Daniel has worked for Mastercard over the last 8 years and was formerly the Director for Digital Agriculture at the Mastercard Labs for Financial Services, Nairobi.
Prior to starting his career at Mastercard, Daniel gained over 18 years’ experience working in different sectors namely: – banking -NIC Bank (now NCBA) as a Relationship Manager for SME banking; University- Mount Kenya University as a lecturer on SME Development; as a consultant and Technical Advisor (ILO and Danida) on Micro and Small Enterprise management; International Development Organization (TechnoServe) as the Program Manager for Agriculture Digital inclusion; Mobile Telecommunication (Vodacom & Safaricom, rolling our mobile technology products in Agriculture, Education and Health verticals in East and Southern Africa.
Daniel holds a Master of Business Administration in Small and Medium Enterprise (SMEs) Development from Leipzig University, Germany. He also holds a Bachelor of Education Degree in Business Studies from Kenyatta University, Kenya. He has specialty trainings on Product Development; Innovation Management; Business Modelling; Leadership and Project Management
Daniel is married to Patricia and is a proud father to 2 boys and 2 girls.