Jane Kaggwa-Snow is the Founder and CEO of AquaVita, a company that uses high-standard technology and top-notch customer service to help companies in East Africa (and beyond) bring fresh, filtered, bottleless water solutions to their organizations. AquaVita is helping these organizations become environmentally responsible based on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Jane is the Co-founder of Black Search Network and a board member of numerous organizations. Not only does she have a bachelor’s in finance, but she also earned an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. As a leader with a vision, she believes in stepping forward to lead even when you don't know all the answers. Jane is also a mom on a mission to build long-lasting wealth that impacts communities and nations to create a better world.

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Starting and running a successful business is tough enough but can be particularly challenging for women of color. How does a woman of color successfully navigate those challenges?

After working in finance, Jane Kaggwa-Snow decided to venture into entrepreneurship. With a vision for changing the world for the better, she founded AquaVita. Over its eight years, AquaVita has become a very successful company in East Africa. The company supports Jane’s vision of creating a service that is environment-friendly and has the capacity to grow and enter into even broader markets around the world. She now shares the challenges she faced, from ideation, funding, having a great team, and running a company as a woman of color to the career path she took to grow her business.

In this episode of The Game is The Game Podcast, Keith Burns sits down with Jane Kaggwa-Snow, Founder and CEO of AquaVita, to discuss her journey through running a successful company. Jane shares her personal and professional background as a woman of color, the importance of mentorship, how she raised capital to fund AquaVita and why she started it, things that hastened its growth, and the importance of mentorship and supportive networks for women of color.