R&R Luxury is a family run business which was set-up in 2010 by PR executive Valerie Obaze. She started making luxury scented candles from the comfort of her kitchen initially as a hobby, then it turned into a business following its high demand. Thereafter, the company created its fragranced body oil R&R Shea Luxury Body …
Ada Osakwe is an award-winning food entrepreneur, investor and passionate agribusiness advocate in Africa. Ada seeks to redefine the food production and retail opportunity across Africa’s large consumer markets through her endeavors. She has a proven successful track record in the private, public and development finance sectors, particularly as a finance professional and a global …
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 …