Introducing Robert Kabera: CEO at Credimarks

From Genocide Survivor to Making Global Impact via Climate and Energy Resiliency

Robert Kabera is a native of Rwanda, where he and his family lived through the 1994 Rwandan genocide. He and his family spent six years in refugee camps. He was 11 when they were resettled in Memphis, Tennessee. After attending & graduating from Stanford, Robert founded an alternative credit rating agency Credimarks in Ghana, with the objective of helping to extend credit into traditionally underserved markets. He has helped over 50 energy companies in nine countries provide cleantech to 6,000 people living off the electricity grid. Robert also served as the Chief Consultant for the United States Africa Development Foundation (USADF) energy investment portfolio under the Obama Administration’s Power Africa Program. In 2018, he was added to the Global US Forbes 30 Under 30 List in the Energy Sector for his industry work and research.

Robert lived an idyllic life as the last child of his parents in Rwanda; he recounted those times with fondness before the genocide broke out. From that moment onwards, life took an uncertain turn; but surprisingly, uncertainty became his compass, guiding him to the man he has become. He admitted to not visiting Rwanda after the war despite the many developments that have since…