Eva is the Founder and CEO of BSD Group, an award-winning brand strategy and communications group company in East Africa. It comprises four companies: Brand Strategy & Design Limited, Avid Public Relations Ltd, Whiteboard Advertising Limited and Brandquad Africa Limited, a training consultancy. Eva, a serial entrepreneur, also co-founded Color Creations Ltd, the first (woman-owned) advertising and branding business to gain the global quality management systems standards ISO 9001:2001 Certification, in Sub-Saharan Africa, in 2007. Eva has more than 20 years industry experience in brand communications, having managed the brand development, refresh and launch programs for both local, regional and global companies. Her expertise is in Brand Repositioning & Alignment, Brand Sustainability, Capital Markets Communications, Crisis Communications, Internal Brand Engagement, Media Relations, Stakeholder Management and Entrepreneurship. She has been recognized both nationally and internationally for her business innovation and leadership. She is a co-founder and former past Chairperson of the Kenya Association of Women Business Owners (KAWBO), and through partnership with Vital Voices Global Partnership and ExxonMobil Foundation, the Kenya Hub for the Africa Businesswomen’s Network (ABWN). She is currently Chair of the Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA) Gender and Youth Sector Board.

Eva is the Chairperson of the Zawadi Africa Education Fund, an organization that provides mentor-ship, leadership development, and scholarship opportunities to academically gifted girls from disadvantaged backgrounds in select African countries to pursue higher education in the United States, Canada and leading African universities. An Aspen Fellow, her business leadership has earned her a variety of awards and prestigious appointments, including the Eve Woman Entrepreneur of the Year 2007, Marketing Society of Kenya (MSK) Warrior award 2007, Goldman Sachs Fortune Global Leaders Award, 2008, and The International Alliance for Women (TIAW) World of Difference 100 Award. She has also participated in many Vital Voices Global Partnership programs, including the 2006 Vital Voices/U.S State Department/Fortune Global Mentoring Program, Levelling the Playing Field, and was a Vital Voices/Gates Leadership and Advocacy Fund grantee for her project to engage businesswomen in economic policy advocacy. In 2013, Eva was nominated in the WIE (Women, Inspiration and Enterprise Network) Power List as one of the 60 most Prominent and Influential Women in Africa and is one of CEO Magazine’s Most Influential Women in Business and Government. An alumnus of the Harvard Business School SEPA Program,

Eva holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Journalism and Marketing from the United States International University (USIU) in Nairobi, a Diploma in Advanced Business Management from the IESE (University of Navarra) and Strathmore Business Schools. She is currently a student at the Stanford Seed Program.