Rolake Rosiji is the CEO at Jobberman, Nigeria. The largest online jobs marketplace in Nigeria and all Sub-Saharan Africa. Core business of online recruitment products, skills development and job creation programmes. Rolake leads the team to build a market where technology is adopted more than it currently is. She’s been democratising access to the company’s …
Farrah Gray has generated more than 20 billion online impressions. Gray was named as one of the most influential Black men in America by the National Urban League. Ebony Magazine and Black Enterprise recognized him as an entrepreneurial icon and best-selling author. Raised in the impoverished Southside of Chicago, Gray defied the odds and became …
Barbara Iyayi is an experienced venture capital and growth equity investor, and entrepreneur with over 16 years’ experience in financial services, spanning venture capital, private equity, investment banking and technology. Barbara has founded, invested in, scaled and advised FinTech-enabled and financial services companies globally. She is the Founding Managing Partner of Unicorn Growth Capital, a …
Bankole Cardoso is the Managing Director and Founder of Easy Taxi Nigeria. Bankole was born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria before attending Boston College where he studied business management. After living abroad for 12 years, he decided to move back home to Nigeria. Bankole’s life changed dramatically with the onset of Ebola. His mother was …
Babawande Afolabi (born 1983) is a Nigerian-born businessman, CEO, and founder of Green Africa Airways Ltd. Afolani was born in Ile-Ife, Osun, Nigeria. Green Africa Airways, a new value airline based in Lagos, Nigeria. The company had orginally announced it had reached an agreement with Boeing for up to one hundred 737 MAX 8 aircraft, …
Ham Serungoji is a Co-Founder & CEO of Chipper Cash, a venture-capital-backed Financial technology company that builds software to enable free and instant cross border peer-to-peer money transfers; as well as solutions for businesses and merchants to process online and in-store payments. Let’s go down memory lane… Ham Serunjogi, age 23, grew up in Uganda …
Amoye Henry is a millennial entrepreneur and a small business consultant. She is on a mission to help scale growth based businesses led by unique founders, usually the underdog. In 2018, she was named one of Canada’s top 100 Accomplished Black Women. Through enticing pitches and building strong brand partnerships, she helped to secure approximately …
Fade Ogunro is the CEO & Founder of Bookings Africa. She is an ambitious and visionary techpreneur, and has dedicated her professional life to the pursuit of equality, opportunity, and prosperity across Africa. In her fifteen-year career, she has been a vital part of several entrepreneurial and philanthropic organizations while maintaining a prolific voice in …
Abbey Wemimo is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Esusu with business partner Samir Goel. Esusu is a leading financial technology platform leveraging data solutions to bridge the racial wealth gap. Esusu’s groundbreaking rent reporting platform captures rental payment data and reports it to credit bureaus for credit building. This enables tenants to build and establish …
Adenike Odutola is the General Manager,X3M ideas, a creative agency which is fast expanding across the African continent. She is a professional in marketing and advertising with over 8 years in consumer, new product, advertising and brand development with a focus in Nigeria, the Southern Africa region as well as the rest of Africa . …