Strive Masiyiwa's Cassava rehires Dan Kwach for AI push
Cassava Technologies has rehired executive Dan Kwach to lead its AI infrastructure expansion across Africa. The company is deploying NVIDIA-powered AI factories to boost computing capacity in several African nations.
Why it matters
This move signals a major push to develop localized AI infrastructure and computing power within the African technology market.
Zimbabwean billionaire Strive Masiyiwa’s Cassava Technologies has brought back data centre executive Dan Kwach to lead its artificial intelligence infrastructure expansion as the technology group seeks to build greater AI computing capacity across Africa.
Kwach has returned to Africa Data Centres (ADC), Cassava’s data centre subsidiary, as executive for AI Data Centres. He announced the move on LinkedIn, saying he had returned to Nairobi after a short period in Madagascar and would join Cassava’s AI team under ADC.
His appointment comes less than a year after he left ADC following a 19 year career with the group. In December 2025, Kwach left his position as ADC’s East Africa managing director to become deputy chief executive of STELLARIX, a Madagascar based data centre and cloud infrastructure company.
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