Eng. Ntare KARITANYI is the Managing Director of Rusumo Power Company Ltd (RPCL), a regional power generation company owned by the Governments of Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania since November 2019. He previously served on the board of the Rusumo Power Company Ltd (RPCL) from April 2013 to November 2016.
He has accumulated about 20 years of considerable experience in Energy, Management and Technology.
He has previously worked as the Managing Director of HOBUKA Ltd, a private independent power producer and solutions integrator and he continues to chair its Board of Advisors.
He also chairs the mini-grids subsector at the Energy Private Developers (EPD) in Rwanda.
Since September 2017, he is serving on the board of Gigawatt Global Rwanda Ltd which is the company that owns and operates the 8.5 MW grid connected solar power plant in Rwanda. He served as the Chief Operations Officer of NGALI Holdings Ltd, responsible for the daily operation of the company and its entire majority owned subsidiaries specialized in Energy, ICT and Healthcare.
Prior to joining the NGALI team, he was the Director General of EWSA Ltd (Energy, Water and Sanitation) which was the multi-sector state-owned utilities company in Rwanda in charge of supplying electricity, water and sanitation services with a team of 2,200 employees and serving more than 500,000 households.
He led the EWSA reform on budget and on schedule in collaboration with policy makers, development partners and employees ‘unions. The outcome of the reform was the unbundling of the multi-utilities company/authority into two separate companies one in charge of Energy REG Ltd and one in charge of Water and Sanitation WASAC Ltd. Both companies are now independent and have their respective Boards of Directors.
He also worked in ICT/Telecom Regulation as an Expert for RURA (Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority) and a Software Engineer in Rwanda for E-ICT and in the United States for both the Georgia Department of Human Resources and the Erie County Medical Center.
He has an extensive knowledge in Energy and ICT both in developed countries and emerging countries due to the various work assignments and also has considerable experience in Utilities Regulation and Software Development Life Cycle.
He holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY-Buffalo) and an Executive MBA with concentration in Energy from BI Norwegian Business School/IFP-Institut Français de Petrole /Haas Berkeley School of Business.