Kin Kariisa (born 24 August 1976) is a Ugandan businessman, media proprietor and philanthropist.
Kin would go on to be appointed Assistant Presidential Advisor on Information Communications and Technology (ICT).
[4] Kariisa took over NBS Television in 2008 as CEO and grew it into Next Media Services, a multimedia company that runs three television stations (NBS Television, Sanyuka TV & Salam TV), a radio station (NXT Radio[5][6] – formerly Jazz FM) in 2018,[7][8] online news portal (Nile Post), digital communications agency and productions houses (Next Communications & Next Production).
Kin also serves as the chairman board of directors for Soliton Telmec, the leading telecommunications technology company in East Africa, supporting both the basic and complex infrastructure required to enable electronic communications across the region, which include data centers, fiber optic lines and related routing and transmission equipment.
[14] He was named among the most influential Ugandans in 2019 in a survey conducted by Public Opinions International a Pan African Organisation.