Mentors who’ve done the work.

Rachael Kivuti is an ERP Consultant at Soft Consult and a cybersecurity professional specializing in bridging the gap between core enterprise infrastructure, emerging tech and offensive operations. Rachael's work has spanned application security, digital forensics and securing ERP environments like SAP, touching almost every moving part of an organization, from finance to supply chain to data workflows to operational logic. Rachael's path is proof that you never have to abandon your existing technical interests to break into cybersecurity; instead, you build on top of them. Having navigated intensive training programs, earned certifications across multiple domains (Security+, eJPT, CCNP, ISC2 CC, ASCP, SAP) and stepped into leadership roles for cyber community initiatives, Rachael understands how to turn raw technical curiosity into structured, real-world skills. Rachael's mentoring focus is helping learners align their unique IT, development or business background with their cybersecurity journey.

Martin M. Kamethu is the Lead Mentor and Chief Talent Architect at Ongoza Cyber Hub (OCH), where he designs how Africa's next cybersecurity professionals are found, trained and proven: from the Cyber Career Clinic and the OCH Readiness Score to the VIP Framework, which helps learners turn their skills into value, impact and purpose. He is the author of The Invisible Expert, the book behind the clinic's Mason, Builder and Architect levels. Alongside OCH, Martin is a Cybersecurity Consultant at Serianu Limited, specializing in technology, risk, and security operations advisory services, and currently leads Serianu Botswana Operations. He helps organisations design and implement simple, practical, and effective cybersecurity risk management capabilities that strengthen their cyber resilience, through programs tailored to the African context. With over 12 years of experience as a cybersecurity and technology leader, Martin is deeply passionate about innovation and leadership, particularly in exploring Africa's potential to address current and future global cybersecurity challenges. He is a Certified Ethical Hacker and is pursuing his MBA at Hult International Business School.

I started my cybersecurity career after school, having transitioned from a none technical background, I took courses applied to programs like OCH and this learning helped me land a role as a SOC Analyst. I'm curriently a Tier 2 analyst. I also work as a threat intelligent analyst, my role gives me the experiense on setting up SIEM environment for inhouse SOC within organizations. Within the innovation space, I'm actively working on AI projects that involves safe integration of AI System within organizations. I also work as a cybersecurity facilitaor and help expalin technical terms to students.