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Somet Kipchilat
Somet Kipchilat Partner Development Manager Microsoft 4Afrika Somet Kipchilat is a Partner Development Manager within Microsoft's Africa Initiatives (Microsoft 4Afrika) his role is to Identify, qualify, onboard, and enable strategic, net-new partners to develop solution on the Microsoft platform. He is also accountable for driving performance of the portfolio of partners by business priority. Previously...
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Mike Farquharson
Mike Farquharson General Manager Rush  Mike Farquharson is the General Manager of Rush, a courier aggregation platform that is transforming the last mile delivery space in South Africa. With more than 15 years’ experience in the courier industry and 19 years prior to that in Financial Services, Mike is passionate about enabling SME’s and entrepreneurs...
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Femi Longe
Femi Longe CEO Qiesto Femi Longe CEO Qiesto has more than 23-years experience as a learning experience designer, facilitator, social innovation consultant and startup coach with keen interest in helping individuals and organizations be their best self and do their best job to enable a better world. He is the founder and CEO of Qiesto,...
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Mark Ihimoyan
Mark Ihimoyan Director of Business Development (Middle East and Africa) at Microsoft Corporation Mark Ihimoyan Director of Business Development (Middle East and Africa) at Microsoft Corporation. In this role Mark is responsible for identifying and executing strategic business development opportunities for Microsoft in Africa. Mark was born in Nigeria and lived there for 18 years...
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Monica Brand Engel
Monica Brand Engel Co-founding partner of Quona Capital Monica Brand Engel Co-founding partner of Quona Capital is an entrepreneur and investor, having launched various funds and products aimed at broadening financial inclusion. She is the co-founding partner of Quona Capital – venture firm focused on fintech for inclusion in emerging markets. Quona is the investment...
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Anu Adasolum
Anu Adasolum Chief Operating Officer Rensource Anu Adasolum, Chief Operating Officer of Rensource Distributed Energy Limited. She provides day-to-day leadership and management, empowering the operational team to meet business goals and projections. Anu drives the engine room of Rensource’s operations, driving growth strategies, managing talent and refining processes to realise the company’s ambition to deliver...
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Carmelle Cadet
Carmelle Cadet Founder and CEO Emtech Carmelle Cadet, Founder and CEO Emtech and is a passionate advocate of Blockchain and Digital Currency Technology for payment modernization and financial inclusion efforts. In her last role after a 10 year career at IBM, Carmelle led the Global Business Development efforts in IBM Blockchain for Payments. She is...
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Stella N. Lugalambi
Stella N. Lugalambi Co-founder Hamwe East Africa Ltd Stella N. Lugalambi is co-founder of Hamwe East Africa Ltd and the company’s director of business development since 2013. In this role, she has steered Hamwe from a start-up to an award-winning Ag-Fintech entreprise. Under her stewardship, the company has been recognized for its agritech innovations by...
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Charles Sekwalor
Charles Sekwalor CEO and Founder of Movemeback Charles Sekwalor, is the CEO and Founder of Movemeback and a serial entrepreneur with a strong passion for driving social and economic change in the world through the application of business principles and bringing together talented and diverse people to solve complex problems. Movemeback is a platform on...
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Khatidja Ajania
Khatidja Ajania COO Kasha  Khatidja Ajania is the Chief Operations Officer (COO) at Kasha.  Kasha is a platform for women’s health and self-care. We support women in having the products, information and services they need to live their best lives, and to help women overcome some of the challenges unique to women around health and...
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