Martin Fisher is the co-founder and CEO of KickStart International. The son of a physics professor, Martin was born in London and grew up in New York in the US.

Martin Fisher co-founded KickStart International, an award-winning non-profit social enterprise that develops appropriate technologies to improve lives and lift people out of poverty.

Martin Fisher of KickStart International spoke with Ashley Hopkinson on November 7, 2023. Click here to read the full conversation with insights highlighted.

KickStart was founded in 1991 by Dr. Martin Fisher and Nick Moon. Fisher first went to Kenya on a Fulbright Fellowship to study the Appropriate Technology Movement, where he met Moon, who was in Kenya with the Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO).

Martin Fisher had a vision ten years ago when he co-founded KickStart International, a Northern California nonprofit that develops water pumps for impoverished countries lacking sufficient water...

Martin is co-founder and CEO of KickStart International (previously ApproTEC). After a PhD in Engineering at Stanford he went to Kenya on a Fulbright and stayed 17 years. He established a large WASH program at ActionAid and led the installation …

KickStart’s technologies, expertise, and methods are now widely applied throughout Africa to support programs in agriculture, shelter, water, sanitation, health, and relief. Since 1991, 160,000 successful new businesses have been started in Africa using Martin’s inventions and more than 800 new businesses are being created each month.

Martin Fisher co-founded KickStart International, an award-winning non-profit social enterprise that develops appropriate technologies to improve lives and lift people out of poverty.

Martin Fisher is the Co Founder & CEO at KickStart. Additionally, Martin Fisher has had 1 past job as the Senior Technical Advisor at ActionAid.