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Nneka Eze
Nneka Eze Partner Dalberg Nneka Eze is a Partner at Dalberg. Over the past three years she has led Dalberg’s work on the creative industries. Nneka is currently developing a fund and accelerator for African growth-stage creative businesses. The fund and accelerator focuses on providing training, market access and finance to scalable creative enterprises. Nneka led the development of...
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David Nsengiyumva
David Nsengiyumva Independent Consultant  David Nsengiyumva is an expert in Digital Financial Services and electronic payments, David has over 12 years of experience in the Financial and Telecom sectors, implementing a wide range of solutions and providing support, consultancy/advisory services. For the past 6 years, he has successfully implemented Mobile Financial solutions with a wide...
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Eddy Kayihura
Eddy Kayihura CIO Bank of Kigali Eddy Kayihura M. serves as CIO in Bank of Kigali since Dec 2016 where he oversees the technology growth of the bank which has embarked on a journey towards becoming a world-class digital banking service provider. Prior to his Banking experience, he has been mainly involved in the Broadband...
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Barbara Birungi
Barbara Birung Director Hive Colab Barbara is a ground-breaking innovator dedicated to promoting the economic empowerment of youth especially girls and women by encouraging greater youth participation in Uganda’s technology sector and actively contributing to the budding IT innovation and entrepreneurship sector of the country. She is the Director of Hive Colab, a business accelerator...
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Eugene Mutai
Eugene Mutai Lead Engineer and Co-founder Raise Eugene Mutai is the Lead engineer and co-founder of Raise (getraise.io), a fintech platform for managing compliant blockchain-based digital securities in frontier markets. He previously worked at Tim Hortons, Andela and iHub as a software developer and consultant. He's also a Google Developer Expert (GDE) in Web Technologies, avid...
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Wesley Lynch
Wesley Lynch Founder & CEO Snapplify  As founder and CEO of Snapplify, Wesley Lynch has been instrumental in the growth and development of the business, bringing 20 years of valuable experience in publishing, as well as mobile content strategy and enterprise mobility. Under Wesley’s leadership, Snapplify has grown to be Africa’s largest ebook aggregator and...
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Yeukayi Kusangaya
Yeukayi Kusangaya Product Manager Golix Yeukayi Kusangaya is currently working as a product manager Golix, a cryptocurrency exchange start-up which is making super easy for people in Sub-Saharan Africa to use buy, sell and most importantly accept digital currencies like Bitcoin, Dash, Litecoin, Bitcoin Gold, Bitcoin Cash and Ethereum.
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Henry Umunnakwe
Henry Umunnakwe Co-founder Compound55 Henry Umunnakwe is co-founder of Compound55, a social enterprise that harnesses the power of connecting people and communities for social impact. He is the Kigali director of Startup Grind, an educational series powered by Google for entrepreneurs. He is also the project manager of Startup Compound, a platform that provides expertise,...
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Olasupo Oyedepo
Olasupo Oyedepo Project Director ICT4HEALTH Olasupo Oyedepo is currently playing a leadership role in the African Alliance of Digital Health Networks. The African Alliance of Digital Health Networks is a peer learning network, established (with support from Digital Square at PATH) to provide coordinating support to existing digital health networks across the continent, to help to align and leverage the...
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Mariam Iqbal
Mariam Iqbal Partnerships Associate MEST Mariam is Partnerships Associate at MEST Africa, a leading tech & entrepreneurship training programme, seed fund, and incubator, based in Accra, Lagos, and Cape Town.  Here she works with large corporates to ensure they are able to access the most relevant MEST products for their brand and innovation objectives. Prior...
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