Asha Mweru is the Managing Director for African Management Institute (AMI) Enterprise, a company committed to providing critical talent skills for the future of work. She leads an AMI Enterprise division with a deep bench and an ever-growing footprint across the continent, including sales and learning delivery team members in Ghana, South Africa, Kenya, Senegal, …
Steven Bartlett is the 30-year-old Founder of the social media marketing agency Social Chain. From a bedroom in Manchester, this university drop-out built Social Chain Agency, which would become “Social Chain AG” – a social commerce marketing group. He led Social Chain AG as Co-Founder & Co-CEO’s with Wanja Oberhof until he stepped down in …
Kike Oniwinde Agoro is the Founder & CEO of BYP Network – a digital platform described as LinkedIn for black young professionals. It connects professionals and entrepreneurs with one another and with corporations, and hosts networking events that attract major names such as Spotify. “If you’re the only black person in the workplace, which tends …
Azeez Amida is the CEO, Pan African Towers Limited, Nigeria’s third-largest Tower Infrastructure Provider. He has worked globally to support career professionals, entrepreneurs and corporate brands with cutting-edge growth strategies. As an under-40 CEO, Amida has over 19 years of professional experience cutting across four countries and 12 industries, including Telecommunications, FMCG, Healthcare, Investment Banking, …
Olumide Soyombo is the Founder, Bluechip Technologies Ltd– A systems integrator and technology consulting outfit in 2008 and has grown the organization from one with two employees to an organization with over 100 consultants spread across Nigeria, Ghana, Zambia, Kenya and DRC. In 2014, Olumide setup Leadpath as a seed fund investing in local tech …
Camila Morena is the Director, Bristol Myers Squibb. Her key responsibilities include; Strategy & Insights, Governance, Capabilities & Processes, Project Management, Planning & Logistics, budget management. She is responsible for driving the development and implementation of the Corporate Communications strategic plan and stewards the effectiveness of the overall Corporate Communication function. Camila has global business …
Muriel Lamin is currently head of business development – commercial, operations and philanthropic partnerships at BBC World Service, where she leads a multifunctional team working across editorial philanthropic partnerships, commercial strategy, technical operations and communications. Prior to this, Muriel worked in a number of business development and commercial strategy roles across the media and advertising …
Oumar Barou Togola is a social entrepreneur. He is honoured to collaborate with many like-minded people around the globe who are also focused on rewriting the African narrative. Africans and the African diaspora celebrate our collective ancestry and are assisting in supporting equity and transparency in all our affairs. A self-driven entrepreneur from Mali and …
Lise Birikundavyi is the co-founder and managing partner for BKR Capital, the first institutional, black-led VC fund in Canada. Lise is an innovative finance specialist who has worked with several international institutions and acts as guest lecturer for prestigious organization, including Oxford University and the International Olympic Committee Accelerator managed by the Yunus Sports Hub. …
Evanna Oli is the Co-Founder, Beautiful Curly Me. It started with a 6 year old girl. One day, she came home from school and asked her Mom why her hair wasn’t straight and “pretty” like her classmates. She didn’t like her hair and she struggled with accepting herself. Mom felt terrible and wondered how she …