Trudi Makhaya is a writer, economist and entrepreneur. In 2015, she founded an advisory firm focused on competition policy and entrepreneurship. Trudi has also served as an advisor and angel investor in young companies. She has held non-executive directorships at Vumelana Advisory Fund and MTN South Africa. She’s an active public commentator, Trudi is a …
Thato Kgatlhanye is the founder of Rethaka Group. At 18, Kgatlhanye founded Rethaka, which produces recycled schoolbags that double up as solar-powered lights that children can use to study at night. The company employs 20 people, has many volunteers, and supplies its products to the likes of Standard Bank, Red Bull, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Unilever. It …
Rolake Akinkugbe-Filani is the Head of Energy & Resources for FBN Merchant Bank, a subsidiary of Nigeria’s largest banking group, FBN Holdings Plc. Investment Banking professional, with strong origination, execution & advisory experience for private and public sector clients. She is the Ad Hoc adviser on the Economic Advisory Board in the Office of the …
Onyeche (Makoju) Tifase is an experienced executive with a demonstrated history of working in the electrical and electronics manufacturing industry. She’s skilled in Business Planning, Energy, Process Engineering, Sustainability, and Procurement. She also has a strong sales background with a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) focused in Electrical Engineering from Cambridge University and a Bachelor’s Degree …
Nina Silva is the founder of D’Black Bank and a leading IT Executive in Brazil. She’s one of most influential black women IT executive in Brazil of diversity causes. She is actively involved in coaching and mentoring in many programs. She is also a Writer and Poet. She has been working in Information Technology over the past …
Mohammed N. Mijindadi is an highly effective, detailed and goal-oriented Executive with a Bsc degree in Civil Engineering, MBA in product marketing and strategic leadership, varied experiences and a proven track record in Operations management, Process improvement (Six/Lean Sigma), Strategic Planning, Product and Brand development, Project and Account Management, Integrated Marketing communications planning, Value-based selling, …
Marc Alain (MAB) is an ecosystem builder. He is the founder of Banj, the first and biggest entrepreneurship hub of Port-au-Prince. He brought Facebook and Google to Haiti to work with developers and to support entrepreneurship in a nation still seen as a destination mostly for humanitarian work. Born, raised and college educated in Port-au-Prince, …
Kurt Summers Jr. is the Treasurer of the City of Chicago, Illinois. Summers was appointed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel on October 22, 2014, and took the oath of office on December 1, 2014. Summers was elected to his first full-term in office during Chicago’s citywide election on February 24, 2015. He was preceded in office by Stephanie Neely. Summers graduated from Whitney Young Magnet High School in …
Iyinoluwa Aboyeji is the CEO and Co-founder of Flutterwave, a global payments technology company connecting Africa to the global digital economy with payments infrastructure that helps financial institutions and businesses build more seamless and secure payments experiences for their customers. Founded in 2016 by a team of African payments, technology and banking veterans from Standard …
Isaac Ewaleifoh earned his bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Lagos in Nigeria, where he is from. He came to the United States for graduate school, where he participated in a program geared towards the application of mathematical methods to the solution of problems in finance at Rutgers University. A month …