Silvester is the Chairman, Founder & a shareholder at Express Shipping & Logistics EA Ltd, Group; a leading provider of sea and air shipping logistic solutions across Eastern Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, DRC, Southern Sudan).

He holds MSc. Shipping Management from World Maritime University, Sweden; BA: Economics & Business Studies, Kenyatta University. Silvester is a Fellow: Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers, London and is the first African to win the Cory Brothers Shipping Award from the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers (UK).

Current Board and Taskforce positions:

      i. Chairman - Kenya Ships Agents Association

      ii. Chairman - Marine Transport and Port Logistics Industry Advisory Board for East Africa Skills for Transformation and Regional Integration Project (EASTRIP), Kenya Coast National Polytechnic ($8.1m World Bank Project to upskill the maritime industry).

      iii. Consultant - GuidePoint (consults for quite a number of African, American, British and European investment funds on emerging opportunities in Eastern Africa.

Previous Board and Taskforce positions served include:

      i. Board Member, Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers Controlling Council, London (3 years)

      ii. Founding Chairman, the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers -Eastern Africa Branch-covering Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Djibouti- (5 years

      iii. Board Member (Director) at Kenya Maritime Authority (7 years).