Emma Caddy

CEO / Founder
Tiny Totos Kenya

Emma has 20 years’ experience operating at the nexus between sustainable investment, financial innovation and social and environmentally friendly development.

Emma spent a decade running community development and conservation programmes in Central America, working on indigenous rights and conservation with Fauna & Flora International and the Indian Law Resource Centre. She then spent 5 years managing an impact investment fund for ERM the global environmental consultancy. Moving to Nairobi in 2012 with her family, she then set up Impact Capital Advisors, a boutique impact consulting firm that has advised clients such as the Low Carbon Enteprise Fund and OPES Calvert Foundation, the Kenya Bankers’ Association, Aga Khan Trust for Culture, UNDP, UNEP’s SEED programme, DOEN and the UK-based Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor. In 2014 Emma founded and self-financed Tiny Totos, a Kenyan registered social enterprise that is building a replicable, market based solution for providing universal, standardized preschool for children in slums, providing improved returns to owners, and affordable childcare for working mothers. Tiny Totos’ which has to date served over 7000 children, with 70 business partners, demonstrating potential for alternative market-based approaches to improved childcare services for the poor) is funded by Grand Challenges Canada, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation,CRI and EEP amongst others. In 2019 Tiny Totos won MIT’s Inclusive Innovation Challenge for Africa in the Jobs Creation and Income Generation Category and subsequently, the MIT Inclusive Innovation Global Peoples’ Award (2019).

Emma has a first class Bachelors from Oxford University, a Masters in Resource Management from the University of British Columbia and an MBA with Distinction from Oxford’s Said Business School where she was a Skoll Scholar in Social Entrepreneurship. She is also the proud mother of 3 girls aged 6, 8 and 10, who have each incubated their own social entrepreneurship values by respectively attending Skoll World Forums in their toddler years.