Ladi Delano is a 35-year old Nigerian serial entrepreneur who made his first million as a liquor entrepreneur while living in China. At the age of 24, in 2004, he founded Solidarnosc Asia, a Chinese alcoholic beverage company that made Solid XS, a premium brand of vodka. Solid XS eventually had a 50% market share and went …
Morgan DeBaun began her career working on product management and business development at Intuit. She decided to leave her corporate job in part because she wanted to be more connected with “what was really going on on the ground”. She also felt that she and other black millennials were not represented by mainstream media. Since launching …
Teniola Eleoramo currently serves as the Executive Chairman of the Kohath Property Development Company (a member of KIG). Prior to this position, he has been a Strategy and Business Consultant for notable Oil and Gas, manufacturing and financial services companies. He is an Alumnus of the London Business School, and also has a wide range …
William Heard is Chief Executive Officer, Chief Investment Officer and Founder of Heard Capital LLC. Mr. Heard is a graduate of the Marquette University College of Business Administration with degrees in both Finance and Real Estate. Prior to starting Heard Capital LLC, Mr. Heard was a Special Situations Analyst for Stark Investments, a global …
Olugbenga ‘GB’ Agboola is a Senior Entrepreneur with 14 years of experience in building scalable financial technology firms. He is the Co-Founder & CEO of Flutterwave.; a post-Series A payments technology company headquartered in San Francisco with operations and offices across Africa and Europe. Flutterwave was launched four years ago with the goal to build digital …
Queen Nworisara-Quinn is a founding Partner at Kupanda Capital. Prior to Kupanda Capital, Queen was an Investment Officer in the African Development Bank’s (AfDB) Private Sector Department. At the AfDB, she also served as Chief of Staff in the Office of the Vice President for Infrastructure & Private Sector Development. Previously, Queen was a …
What does Excellence mean? According to Oprah Winfrey, Excellence is seen as your Personal Brand and when people come in contact with your Personal brand, you become unforgettable. And that is the effect we are creating for the continent called AFRICA. We at the Most Influential People of African Descent (MIPAD), it …
Sahar Albazar is an Egyptian MP and the Deputy Chair of the Foreign Relations Committee at the Egyptian House of Representatives. She is also the President of the forum of young Parliamentarians representing more than 170 countries. Sahar is an MPA holder from Harvard University. Before that, she was an Impact Assessment Consultant at the …
Mbali Ntuli is a South African politician and a Democratic Alliance Member. She currently serves as the Provincial Campaigns Director for KZN. She is the former leader of the Democratic Alliance Youth, the youth wing of South Africa’s official opposition party. She was elected to this position in May 2013. Ntuli is a product of the DA Young …
Kellen Kanze Dena is the State House Spokesperson and Head of the President’s Strategic Communication Unit (PSCU) to President Uhuru Kenyatta. Kanze becomes the first female State House Spokesperson and Head of PSCU in the history of Kenya. Her elevation is in line with President Kenyatta’s recent public appointments in which the Head of State has …