Read More Fiction To Be A Creative Marketer - Silvia Tonui | S01E1

Silvia Tonui is a Marketing & Project Management consultant who started her career in 2009 at Elle Magazine, South Africa in Trade & Consumer Marketing, managing Marketing campaigns for clients like Esteè Lauder, Mr Price Young Designer Search, Clinique and many others. She moved back to Kenya in 2012 and worked as CEO of FAFA (Festival of African Fashion & Arts), responsible for creating a market for East African fashion designers both locally and internationally, providing fashion training for young designers through the FAFA Insight Project and planning Kenya's biggest fashion gala, FAFA.

She is currently a Project Manager Consultant ,most recently for British Council's Creative DNA Project, responsible for planning and overseeing three major Fashion & Textile projects.

She is a farmer in her free time and the founder of a Kenyan honey brand called Marigat Gold. She plays a major role in providing Agribusiness mentorship to Kenya's youth, having been part of Safaricom's Entrepreneurship Program, "BLAZE Be your own Boss" for 3 years. Her mentorship focus is on value addition, branding and market access.

She has a degree in International Business Administration from The United States International University and an MSc in Project Management from The University of Salford, Manchester. She is a Mandela Washington Fellow and was listed in Business Daily's Top 40 under 40 Women in Kenya in 2018.