With an intimate passion for event management, Ayiri Oladunmoye began her career in the event planning industry, when she planned her own wedding in 2002 and several other events for charity organizations and friends. Urged by family and friends to pursue her passion in event management, fully led to the birthing of Oaken Events …
Bayo (Olubayo) is a transformational leader with a strong passion to add value to the next generation and build a sustainable platform for shared value creation. He is an award-winning expert in Strategy, Marketing and Analytics and combines 17 years of cognate industry experience from two largest economies in Africa (Nigeria and South Africa). He …
Born in Uganda, Ms. Kiyingi holds a first class bachelor’s degree in law and bachelor’s of arts degree in international studies from the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. She is admitted as a solicitor in NSW, Australia and England and Wales. Prior to her appointment as General Counsel at the African Export-Import Bank, Ms. …
Audu Maikori is a multi-award-winning entrepreneur and lawyer. He was born in Kaduna, Nigeria and attended the prestigious King’s College Lagos. He was called to the Nigerian Bar in 2001 and cut his teeth in the legal profession having worked at several firms including Chief Afe Babalola SAN & Co, Leasing Company of Nigeria (a subsidiary …
Mamadou-Abou Sarr is a driven, accomplished Director of Product Development & Sustainable Investing with a passion and knowledge of the Asset Management industry gained whilst working for global financial services company across the U.S., Europe, Middle East and Africa. Experience in a variety of product development, sales, strategist and leadership roles. He is also the …
Lisiane Lemos considers herself to be an expert in the B2B business area, including planning and prospecting new business, market analysis, sales performance, customer satisfaction and retention. She has solid knowledge in different industries with a track record of managing more than one thousand clients distributed in the corporate and governmental segment to offer technological …
Jan Coleman is a marketer with 3rd-party commercial tie-ins focus and extensive experience working with multiple brands, colleagues and facilitating work across different offices and lines of business. She is currently the Director, Global Marketing Partnerships at The Walt Disney Studios. She believes she has abilities to apply strategic thinking to the development of 3rd-party …
Fatima Dicko is the founder and CEO of JetPack venture-backed, seed-stage technology company that envisions a world where people have access to the products they need in minutes. After studying Chemical Engineering at Columbia University, She worked as a Senior Engineer on an upstream innovation team at Procter & Gamble developing new-to-the-world products (3-10 years …
Chika Nwobi is a serial entrepreneur focused on building successful mobile and internet-related companies in Africa. Through a venture development firm, ‘Level5Lab’ which he founded three years ago, Chika has invested in starting Jobberman.com – West Africa’s most popular job’s portal and Cheki.com.ng- Nigeria’s leading cars/autos website. Chika has been able to guide these two …
Chike Ukaegbu is the founder and lead executive of Startup52, NYC’s premier and award-winning diversity-focused accelerator with a mission to increase the representation of founders from untapped communities in tech and startup entrepreneurship. He is also the executive producer and host of TECH:INColors, a new facebook live show that explores the intersection of tech, entrepreneurship, …