Skollar 2006/07
Jesse Moore is a founder and Managing Director of Signal Point Partners, a company that invests in emerging market ventures that use mobile phones to deliver basic services. Signal Point’s investments include mobile money, mobile health and renewable energy ventures in East Africa and South Asia.
Jesse also serves as Senior Advisor to the GSMA Development Fund, the arm of the global mobile trade association that works with industry to accelerate mobile services in low-income countries. Until his departure in late 2009, Jesse was the Director of the Development Fund and helped it triple in size, launching new programs and securing over US $20M in new funding. Through this period he worked closely with leading mobile operators such as Bharti Airtel (India), Smart Communications (Philippines) and Safaricom (Kenya.)
Prior to joining the GSMA, Jesse worked with Vodafone Group and Safaricom on the scaling of M-Pesa, the world’s leading mobile payments service in Kenya. He has also worked as the Director for Private Sector Development for CARE Canada and as a business strategy consultant at Monitor Company.
Jesse holds an MBA with distinction at Oxford University's Said Business School (Skoll Scholar, ‘07), a BA with distinction from the University of North Carolina (Morehead Scholar ‘01) and was a Visiting Scholar at the Legatum Centre for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT (‘08).
Originally from Toronto, Canada, Jesse lives in Nairobi, Kenya, and is married to Natasha Sweeney, a Canadian journalist.