Who is Peter Kanda?

PeterKanda is a loving husband and father of two. He is also the Chief Information Officer at Gertrude’s Children’s Hospital, which is Largest Children’s Hospital in East and Central Africa. He is responsible in ensuring smooth ICT operations, innovation and efficiency across the hospital’s 17 sites spread throughout the cities of Nairobi and Mombasa.

Passionate about using IT to advance and enhance positive intelligent outcomes

Kanda believes that AI, IoT and remote patient care through Telemedicine will be the next disruptive technologies in healthcare and healthcare providers who take on these technologies will be more efficient, sustainable and profitable.

Kanda did his primary schooling in St Georges Grassland Academy and Karen C primary school before proceeding to join Moi Forces Academy. From Moi Forces Academy, he joined Kenyatta University to pursue Bachelors of Science in Software Engineering. As a certified IT Service Management (ITIL) and Network Security expert, Kanda is also a holder of a range of certifications among them, the recently completed Certification in Healthcare Quality and Safety from Institute of Health Improvement (US).

While at Kenyatta University, he became a Python Programming enthusiast among other scripting languages. Kanda started doing minor web applications for clients while still at the university and with that ventured in part time photography. He did his internships and small contracts with Life Ministry Kenya, Ministry of Internal Security and Data Logic Technologies.

Kanda got his first employment with Web Partner Group a US company based in Houston, Texas, that was setting up its outfit in Kenya. While at Web Partner Group, he worked with the teams in Kenya, US and Philippines to design ads and develop web solutions for clients in the US. He worked with the company for slightly over year growing to lead a small ecommerce team.

Kanda later joined Gertrude’s Children’s Hospital in July of 2013 as a Systems and database developer, from which he grew to be the IT section head. His appointment as the Head of Information Service in mid-January 2018 and eventual promotion as Chief Information Officer in September of 2019 opened a window for more challenges.

In 2019, Kanda was among the Top 10 East Africa CIO of the Year and in his words, “I am privileged to work at the healthcare sector at a time such as this because it motivates me to want to solve problems that will make healthcare accessible and affordable.”

Besides work Kanda loves baking, a hobby he picked in end of 2014 and has since been on a quest to try out recipes. He loves travelling, adventures, meeting people, experiencing new culture, reading books and learning new things.

As an avid sports fan, he captained his high school hockey team and played hockey in Nationwide League for Vultures Club, Kenyatta University. He is an Arsenal Football fan and plays for a local football team “Imara Vitambi” FC an offset of the larger Christian Football Club Ambassadors Football club based in ICC, Imara Daima.

While away from the computer screen, Kanda farms and takes time visiting the farmland in Eldoret.