Category: Class of 2018

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Meet Mamadou-Abou Sarr

Mamadou-Abou Sarr is a driven, accomplished Director of Product Development & Sustainable Investing with a passion and knowledge of the Asset Management industry gained whilst working for global financial services company across the U.S., Europe, Middle East and Africa. Experience in a variety of product development, sales, strategist and leadership roles. He is also the …

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Meet Lisiane Lemos

Lisiane Lemos considers herself to be an expert in the B2B business area, including planning and prospecting new business, market analysis, sales performance, customer satisfaction and retention. She has solid knowledge in different industries with a track record of managing more than one thousand clients distributed in the corporate and governmental segment to offer technological …

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Meet Jan Coleman

Jan Coleman is a marketer with 3rd-party commercial tie-ins focus and extensive experience working with multiple brands, colleagues and facilitating work across different offices and lines of business. She is currently the Director, Global Marketing Partnerships at The Walt Disney Studios. She believes she has abilities to apply strategic thinking to the development of 3rd-party …

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Meet Fatima Dicko

Fatima Dicko is the founder and CEO of  JetPack venture-backed, seed-stage technology company that envisions a world where people have access to the products they need in minutes. After studying Chemical Engineering at Columbia University, She worked as a Senior Engineer on an upstream innovation team at Procter & Gamble developing new-to-the-world products (3-10 years …

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Meet Evelyn Namara

Evelyn Namara is a Ugandan technology entrepreneur who is the founder of Vouch Digital, a technology start-up using data and digital payments to improve conditional and unconditional cash-based programs in Uganda and beyond. She is a finalist in the 2018 Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards. Evelyn was named Outstanding Woman in Innovation in 2017 MTN Innovation …

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Meet Dr. Gbolahan O. Okubadejo

  Dr. Gbolahan O. Okubadejo is a board-certified, fellowship-trained spine surgeon with comprehensive experience in performing numerous spinal surgical procedures in the treatment of cervical, lumbar and thoracic conditions. He is extremely adept in dealing with degenerative spinal disease, deformity and all other pathologies of the spine. He has presented at major spine conferences around …

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Meet Diane Karusisi

  Diane Karusisi is a Rwandan statistician, economist, bank executive and academic. She is the CEO of the Bank of Kigali, the largest commercial bank in Rwanda by assets. Immediately prior to her present position, she served as the chief economist and head of strategy and policy at the Office of the President of Rwanda. Diane Karusisi has “broad experience in managing private and public …

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Meet Chika Nwobi

Chika Nwobi is a serial entrepreneur focused on building successful mobile and internet-related companies in Africa. Through a venture development firm, ‘Level5Lab’ which he founded three years ago, Chika has invested in starting Jobberman.com – West Africa’s most popular job’s portal and Cheki.com.ng- Nigeria’s leading cars/autos website. Chika has been able to guide these two …

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Meet Chike Ukaegbu

Chike Ukaegbu is the founder and lead executive of Startup52, NYC’s premier and award-winning diversity-focused accelerator with a mission to increase the representation of founders from untapped communities in tech and startup entrepreneurship. He is also the executive producer and host of TECH:INColors, a new facebook live show that explores the intersection of tech, entrepreneurship, …

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Meet Ivanilson Machado

Ivanilson Machado holds a degree in International Relations and Political Sciences from UAL (Autonomous University of Lisbon), and later he was also on INSEAD Paris and HEC Paris for more specific training courses in management and leadership. Professionally with management positions from 2009 when he joins the Trafigura Group in Angola and then transferred to Puma …