Category: Class of 2018

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Meet Nana Spio-Garbrah

Nana Spio-Garbrah began her career in management consulting in major firms including IBM and Deloitte Consulting, LLP, From there, she transitioned into international finance and development – the major focus areas of her tertiary education, where she now specializes in resource mobilization and shareholder engagement. Formerly, she was focused on private sector development in Africa …

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Meet Rimini Haraya Makama

Rimini Haraya Makama is a Nigerian lawyer and business executive, who is the Head of Corporate & Government Affairs at Microsoft Nigeria. She studied law at the University of Jos, graduating with a Bachelor of Laws. She followed up with a Diploma in Marketing, obtained from the London School of Marketing. Later, she obtained a Master of Laws from the University of Reading. For two years, from …

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Meet Taa Wongbe

Taa Wongbe is the CEO of The Khana Group and is responsible for all aspects of the firm’s strategy, teams and operations across all four offices – New York, Liberia, Nigeria and Ghana. He has served a wide range of clients and led projects for governments, corporations, multilateral institutions, aid agencies, and social impact investors …

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Meet Omar Johnson

Omar Johnson is from Brooklyn, NY. He received a BS from Georgia State University and an MBA from Goizueta Business School at Emory University. Omar Johnson leads all global brand marketing and advertising efforts at Beat Electronics. He applies his extensive marketing expertise across brand development, advertising, retail experience, entertainment/sports marketing, and digital marketing. A …

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Meet Serge Nawej

Serge Nawej is a business lawyer by profession and a strategist very knowledgeable about high-value complex projects and transactions. He is involved in many major projects in Africa and most especially in the DRC, some of which received international coverage. Serge was also Involved in the successful Business Development of a well-known international law firm …

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Meet Vusi Thembekwayo

Vusi Thembekwayo is a Global Business Speaker, private equity CEO, CEO of MyGrowthFund and an Iconoclasts merchant. He was ranked number 1 in public speaking at the age of 17, Vusi went on to receive third place in the world at the English-Speaking Union International Competition. He delivered his first professional talk in 2002 and over …

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Meet Yvonne Mburu

Yvonne Mburu is a scientist and consultant with more than 10 years of experience in Immunology and Oncology. She is also the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Med In Africa, a social enterprise dedicated to connecting the global community of African scientists and health professionals. Med In Africa offers a global platform for African …

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Meet Randall M. Tucker

Randall M. Tucker is a result focused, a collaborative business leader who specializes in evolving how organizations traditionally think about Inclusion & Diversity by focusing on strategies that further position an organization to drive business results and improve collaboration by leveraging. He has 15 years of project management experience, 14 years of United States Inclusion …

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Meet Tolulope Ayomide Agbeyo

Agbeyo Ayomide Tolulope is the Founder/CEO Botosoft Technologies, who considered to be an  inventor and innovator that is passionate about solving day-to-day live issues with the use of technology and always eager to learn in the process and loves to come up with new products, services, and business models to fuel new waves of growth …

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Meet Patrick Buchana Nsenga

Patrick Buchana Nsenga is the CEO of AC Group Ltd, a technology company that deployed the Tap&Go smart transport solution for the Rwandan public transport system under the Smart Africa manifesto.  He is also Board of Director of the Rwanda ICT Chamber in Private Sector Federation (PSF), Invest in Africa forum committee member. Patrick Buchana …