Akinyi Williams

Akinyi Williams
Akinyi Williams
Founder, CEO, Cheyenne Mortgage Capital and Co-founder, President & Chief Operating Officer, Western Capital

About

Akinyi Williams has been Founder/CEO of Cheyenne Mortgage Capital, and COO of Western Capital, Minnesota based lending and broker firms for alternative real estate financing nationwide since 2018. She founded Hope for the Child, a MN based non-profit, where she serves as Chief Education Office for a network of community schools she established for the poor in Kenya in 2007. She recently published a children's book, Will you Marry Me? to aid her efforts towards sustainability for the schools.

Prior to this, Akinyi was a Senior Manager in the Management Consulting group at Accenture. Previously, she was a Director of Specialty Pharmacy programs at Fairview Health Services and a Senior Consultant at UnitedHealth Group. She began her career at American Summit Mortgage and Wells Fargo, working as Senior Credit Officer. Akinyi received a MEd from Harvard University in 2016 and an MBA from the University of Minnesota-Carlson School of Management in 2009.