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Asilia Energy

07 / Principals

Asilia is small by design. Senior practitioners only — no juniors, no layered hierarchies, no margin for translation loss.

The team that built
Tanzania's energy backbone.

  • Kenneth Mutaonga

    Co-Founder · Managing Partner

    Former Director of Exploration, Development & Production at TPDC and Commercial Manager at Shell Tanzania during the country's LNG project. Subsequently led the President's Delivery Bureau energy portfolio with direct oversight of the $1.3B Mtwara pipeline, the 875MW Kinyerezi complex, 50MW Singida wind, and 3,000km of transmission expansion. Earlier roles include Project Facilitator at Frontier Investment Management (Denmark-based renewable energy fund) and Strategy, Operations, and Commercial Assurance positions at National Grid in the UK. Currently Country Representative for the Rosetta Mini-LNG consortium.

    • Ex-TPDC
    • Ex-PDB
    • Ex-Shell
    • Rosetta

  • Ahmad Gulamali

    Co-Founder · Partner, Finance & Strategy

    Former Head of Finance at Shell Tanzania during the formation of the country's LNG project. Previously Regional Controller for East Africa at BG Group, and Group Controller at Dominion Petroleum across upstream East African operations. Over 17 years of fiscal structuring, IOC operational finance, and capital partnership experience brought to every Asilia mandate. ACCA Fellow.

    • Ex-Shell
    • Ex-BG Group
    • Ex-Dominion
    • ACCA