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D. Mwangi
Head of People, health-tech scale-up
Identity checkedNairobi, KenyaPublishing since 2026-05
Built a people function from 30 to 400 employees. Documents compensation, restructuring and performance decisions, including the ones that were later reversed.
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Published cases (1)
RestructuringHealth tech
Cutting 12% of staff nine months before the runway required it
The model said we could wait two more quarters. We cut early anyway, on the argument that a smaller cut now beat a larger one later. That argument is harder to defend than it sounded in the room.