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Alissa Orlando brings years of experience managing consumer technology companies across sub-Saharan Africa.
Alissa Orlando
Alissa Orlando Founder & MD Dynamo Advisors Alissa Orlando brings years of experience managing consumer technology companies across sub-Saharan Africa. She is the founder and Managing Director of Dynamo Advisors, which develops growth strategies, operational processes, and investor materials for early and growth-stage tech ventures across Africa.  Prior to Dynamo, Alissa worked as Head of Operations...
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Aphrodice Mutangana
Aphrodice Mutangana General Manager KLab Aphrodice Mutangana, Social entrepreneur, kLab General Manager, kLab is the biggest hub in Rwanda with more 1600+ members, 60+ companies; Founder and Managing Director of FOYO Group Ltd,  a company that designed and developed Foyo M-health mobile application and Napteker which is an African online systematic pharmaceutical directory that provides education and information...
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Ben Peterson
Ben Peterson Senior Partner, AHL Venture Partners Ben Peterson has fifteen years of experience founding, managing and investing in successful organizations. Since February 2016, Ben has been a venture capital investor in East and Southern Africa. Based in Nairobi, Ben is the Senior Partner at AHL Venture Partners, one of the largest impact-focused VC firms...
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Samuel Gebre
Samuel Gebre Journalist Bloomberg Samuel Gebre is a journalist based in Nairobi, writing for Bloomberg and contributes to other outlets on politics, technology, finance and commodities. He has an engineering degree and is an MBA candidate  
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Obi Ozor
Obi Ozor Co-Founder & CEO Kobo360 Obi Ozor is the CEO and Co-Founder of Kobo360. With over six years of logistics and supply chain experience, he manages all key aspects of Kobo360 including operations, investments, compliance, risk management and product growth.  Obi completed his Biochemistry degree at the University of Michigan before graduating from the...
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Maurice Otieno
Maurice Otieno General Manager Mettā Maurice is General Manager at Mettā, a community-led initiative designed to bring entrepreneurs and the wider startup ecosystem closer together.  It connects the dots between founders, small businesses, industry experts, educators, services providers and investors. He is passionate about design thinking, local angel investment, product development and optimising operations in...
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Maggie Mutesi
Maggie Mutesi Journalist BBC Africa Maggie Mutesi is an award winning Broadcast journalist with BBC Africa where she presents the daily Africa business show “Money Daily” covering stories from across the continent. She has previously worked with CNBC Africa as a business anchor and producer, where she also emerged as the 2017 best Female journalist....
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Tracey McNeill
Tracey McNeill CEO babylon Rwanda Tracey is an experienced international healthcare operations person with a career spanning over 30 years. She has worked extensively in a diverse range of sensitive healthcare settings. She has been described as a pioneer in health care for her work in the UK and Northern Ireland and currently in Rwanda...
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Hannah Clifford
Hannah Clifford Director Nairobi Garage Hannah Clifford is the Director of Nairobi Garage, Africa’s largest co-working space. Hannah has run the Garage since its inception in 2012, building it up to house Nairobi’s largest co-working community of innovative businesses, with spaces in Westlands and Ngong Road.  Hannah has lived and worked in Kenya for 7...
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Ikechukwu Kalu
Ikechukwu Kalu Principal Engineer Etisalat Nigeria Ikechukwu Kalu, is the Principal Engineer of Value Added Services Planning at Etisalat. He has a computer science background and career has spurred from software development,consulting, banking and telecommunications. He has worked for over 10 years in top telecommunication firms in Nigeria (Etisalat Nigeria and Globacom) and has being...
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