Yara Shahidi is an American actress. She first gained recognition in 2012 on the series The First Family. Shahidi is also known for playing the oldest daughter Zoey Johnson on the ABC sitcom Black-ish, a role she reprised on the Freeform spin-off Grown-ish. Her notable films include Imagine That (2009), Alex Cross (2012), Smallfoot (2018), The Sun Is Also a Star (2019) and PAW Patrol: The Movie (2021). One …
Cephas Caleb is a lawyer with the foremost Nigerian law firm of Aluko & Oyebode, a member of the African Law Network (ALN). He provides legal advisory services on diverse areas of Nigerian law, including company formations, corporate governance and business advisory, foreign investments and incentives, power and mining, labour and employment, real estate, oil …
Chilufya Mutale is the Co-Founder and CEO of PremierCredit, an online microlending and investment platform operating in emerging markets. Since 2019 PremierCredit has been offering micro loans in Zambia, supporting local entrepreneurs and small-scale traders, many of whom are women, increasing their access to capital and the ability to grow their businesses. With the support …
Danny Manu is a British-Ghanaian engineer and tech entrepreneur who built the world’s first auto-translator earbuds. Danny describes himself as “a very ambitious, hard-working engineer who strives to develop life-changing solutions to improve people’s life”. He is an engineer who was born in the United Kingdom to Ghanaian parents. He studied at Oxford Brookes University and …
Ehime Eigbe is the Founder and CEO of US-based frozen yoghurt brand Sweet Kiwi. Her pioneering business, was born out of the need to create a clean dessert recipe after she realised most available brands weren’t as healthy as they claimed. After a health scare in 2009, Eigbe-Akindele made it her mission to focus on …
Faith Biyapo is a Regional Manager, Black Community Business Development. His primary role is to serve as a trusted liaison between TD.,Bank Group and the Black Community. He currently resides and works in Canada. He was one of the most outstanding students and a recipient of AUN’s Academic Excellence Merit Scholarship, Mr. Faith Biyapo graduated …
Imo Enang is a Senior Lecturer, Best-Selling Author and Business Consultant. He is a broad-skilled business executive with over 15 years of working experience in commercial strategy, operational excellence, and new business and entrepreneurial development spaces in multiple industries as well as faculty leadership in the business school. He is also a personal development coach …
Adedayo Amzat is the Group Managing Director of Zedcrest Capital Group, the foremost financial solutions powerhouse. The group focuses on: Securities & Currency dealing through its Inter-dealer broker business (Zedcap partners), Asset Management through its SEC-licensed “Zedcrest Investment Managers” and Consumer and small business lending through “Zedvance Finance”. Adedayo Amzat is a renowned financial market …
Ricardo Lima is the Head of Start-ups & Investors at Web Summit which is a global technology conference company based in Dublin, Ireland. It runs a series of international gatherings across the world. Its flagship event is Web Summit, held for the last five years in Dublin and which will return to Lisbon in 2019. …
Akol E. Ayii is the Founder and Chairman of Trinity Energy Group Limited, Southern Sudan. He is an experienced founder with a demonstrated history of working in the oil & energy industry. Skilled in Operations Management, Quantitative Data, Petroleum Products, Investments, and Business Strategy. Strong business development professional graduated from United States International University – …