Mrs. Esther Lugoe Mengi is the Co-Founder and Cybersecurity Specialist of Serensic Africa a company that specializes in cyber security and digital forensics. Forbes named her one of the 30 most promising young entrepreneurs in Africa 2017. She has worked for the United Nations Headquarters in Africa (UNON) and UNDP Somalia before starting her company.

Her education background is on Information Systems and technology with a concentration in Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics from United States International University (USIU) along with certifications such as a Certified Cisco Network Associate (CCNA), Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), and Certified Information Systems Auditor and others.
She is an innovator, developer and a Cybersecurity pioneer. She has recently developed a cyber AI software named ASKARI. ASKARI is a powerful cyber AI technology that protects systems from hackers, attacks and other threats by using intelligent algorithms to detect all known and unknown attacks as well as new threats using code recognition and patterns, and automatically takes action.