By June 2019, Janet Mawiyoo, chief executive officer (CEO) of the Kenya Community Development Foundation (KCDF), and her executive team had reached the conclusion that it was no longer viable for the Foundation, which carried out the organisation’s development activities, to be so integrally involved in the operations of the investment activities of the KCDF Trust, the latter having been established in the mid-2000s to manage and grow the assets of the Foundation. She wanted to find a way of ensuring that she could have more time to focus on her core work at the Foundation, so that the Trust’s activities were managed effectively and that it could act in a decisive and timely manner to grow the Foundation’s assets.