Eric Kinoti
Eric Kinoti ɗan kasuwa ɗan ƙasar Kenya ne na asalin Afirka da aka haife shi a Mombasa a ranar 8 ga watan Maris 1984.  Tare da kasancewarsa wanda ya kafa kuma Shugaba na Shade Systems EA.ltd, kasuwancin dala miliyan da ke da hannu a cikin ƙasashe sama da 6,  yana cikin shuwagabannin manyan kamfanoni na gabashin Afirka. Ya lashe kyautuka da dama a Gabashin Afirka da ma duniya baki daya, ya kuma samu karbuwa a kan harkokin kasuwancinsa, sannan ya kasance fitaccen mai bayar da taimako.

Shi ne majibincin matasan Kenya a cibiyar kasuwanci ta Kenya kuma ya samu karramawa a matsayin matashin dan kasuwa daga shugaban Kenya Uhuru Kenyatta.  Baya ga fitowa a <i id="mwGA">jerin Forbes Africa <span about="#mwt38" class="nowrap" data-cx="[{&quot;adapted&quot;:true,&quot;targetExists&quot;:true,&quot;mandatoryTargetParams&quot;:[],&quot;optionalTargetParams&quot;:[]}]" data-mw="{&quot;parts&quot;:[{&quot;template&quot;:{&quot;target&quot;:{&quot;wt&quot;:&quot;'&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;./Template:'&quot;},&quot;params&quot;:{},&quot;i&quot;:0}}]}" data-ve-no-generated-contents="true" id="mwGQ" style="padding-left:0.1em;" typeof="mw:Transclusion"><span typeof="mw:Entity">'</span></span></i> s Annual List of 30 Mafi Alkawari Matasa 'Yan Kasuwa a Afirka sau biyu,   ya sami lambar yabo ta SOMA ta Kenya a cikin 2014 don kasancewa Mafi Tasirin Halin SME a Kenya a cikin 2014.

Ƙuruciya 
Bayan koleji Kinoti ya yi aiki a matsayin mai karbar kudi a wani otal a Malindi kuma a nan ne tafiyar sa ta kasuwanci ta fara. Tun da yake aiki da dare, Kinoti ya yi amfani da lokacinsa na saye da rarraba ƙwai a cikin garin Malindi. Bayan 'yan shekaru, ya koma Nairobi inda ya raba madara ga otal-otal a cikin birnin.  Kinoti, ya girma a Meru, inda ya taimaka wa mahaifinsa a cikin shagon a matsayin mai karbar kudi bayan makaranta. Kinoti ya amince da cewa, “Na bude kamfanin Shade System a shekara 24 da ma’aikata biyar kacal da jarin iri na Sh60,000. Na ga gibin kasuwanci saboda yawancin mutanen da ba 'yan Kenya ne ke kula da wannan fannin ba, wanda hakan ya tabbatar da farkonsa na tawali'u. Duk da haka, mahaifinsa, mai shago, ya kuduri aniyar baiwa matashin Kinoti ilimi mafi inganci.

Ilimi 
Kinoti ya halarci makarantar firamare ta kwana ta St. Martins, Kwalejin Abothogochi, makarantar sakandare ta Nkubu kuma ya sami shaidar difloma a fannin sarrafa kasuwanci daga Cibiyar Tsavo Park.

Kasuwanci 
Eric Kinoti ya nutsar da kansa cikin harkokin kasuwanci gaba daya a shekarar 2007. Da babban birnin kasar KSh 20,000 (kimanin $200), ya fara siyan madara daga Kinoo da Kiambu tare da samar da otal-otal na birnin duka a Nairobi da Mombasa.  Tare da ajiyar Ksh 60,000 (US $ 600), ya karɓi kusan KSh2 miliyan (US $ 20,000) daga Shylock a 2009, don kafa Shade Systems inda ya ƙare ya biya kuɗin da shilling miliyan (US $ 10,000) a matsayin riba.  Ya ce wannan ita ce mafi munin shawarar da ya taba yankewa. 

A yau, Kinoti yana kan gaba a kan kamfanoni biyar masu karfi a Kenya kuma yana cikin tawagar gwamnatin Kenya a wasu tarurrukan tattalin arziki na kasa da kasa.  Baya ga Shade Systems (EA) ltd, Eric Kinoti shi ne wanda ya kafa kuma darektan Alma Tents Ltd, Bag Base Kenya Ltd da SafiSana Home Services Ltd.  Da farkon shekarun 2009 da 2014 ya  fadada Shade Systems zuwa wasu ƙasashe kamar Rwanda, Somalia, Kongo, Kudancin Sudan, Uganda da sauran wurare tare da tuhumar Kinoti da harkokin kasuwanci a yankin Gabas da Tsakiyar Afirka.

An dauki Kinoti a matsayin Warren Buffett na Afirka ta labaran rana na Najeriya.

Tallafawa 
Kasancewa cikin lokuta masu wahala da kalubale masu yawa, burin Kinoti da burinsa shine karfafawa da kuma ba da jagoranci ga matasa 'yan kasuwa da masu farawa don shiga tsakani. Ya kasance yana shirya taron karawa juna sani ga matasa 'yan kasuwa a fadin Afirka mai suna 'yan kasuwa Boot Camp tare da masu magana daga sassan Afirka.

Rayuwa ta sirri 
Eric Kinoti ya auri matar da suke da ɗa guda tare da ita.  Yana zaune a yankin Westlands na Nairobi, Kenya.

Duba kuma 

 Jerin sunayen attajiran Afirka
 Jerin mutane mafi arziki a Kenya

Manazarta 
Haihuwan 1984
Rayayyun mutane