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Yaw Nsarkoh
Yaw Nsarkoh Director  Yaw Nsarkoh is a widely admired London-based leader and NED building a portfolio of roles aligned with personal purpose and leverage his experience, network and wisdom. He has deep, broad, operational and strategic experience from three decades working across the world for Unilever, in particular in Africa and Asia where he became...
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Stone Atwine
Stone Atwine CEO & Co-Founder Eversend From simply wanting to fix the perils of sending remittances to his grandma in Uganda, to now building the financial octopus for Africa and beyond, Stone Atwine is the CEO and co-founder of Eversend, a multi-currency app that enables Africans to conveniently and affordably send, pay and spend globally....
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Josie Middleton
Josie Middleton Program Lead IFC Josie Middleton has worked in the technology sector since 2008. She has considerable experience supporting startups and scales, particularly in emerging markets. Previous roles include program lead of ScaleX at the International Finance Corporation (IFC is the investment arm of the World Bank), where her work focused on closing the...
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Jenny Vega
Jenny Vega Solutions Architect Amazon Web Services Jenny Vega is a Solutions Architect working with startups to help them to build AI and Machine Learning solutions on AWS. She's been working several years a Machine Learning Engineer and Architect in many startups before AWS where she got experience in the Consumer Packaged Goods, Marketing, and...
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Oo Nwoye
Oo Nwoye Business Development Lead AWS Oo Nwoye leads Business Development for AWS in West and Central Africa where he manages the relationship with Startups, Venture Capital firms and other Startup organisations. With has over 15 years of experience in building, advising and funding startups, Oo has designed and run accelerator programs, startup competitions for...
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Baiju Shah
Baiju Shah CEO ebiashara Africa Baiju Shah is a technology entrepreneur, he specializes in developing
 fintech, blockchain, media, and telecommunications businesses
in African markets. His expertise in supply chain finance and collaboration within regional markets allows him to provide innovative solutions for
risk and fraud management. He also offers advisory services to telecom, gaming, and financial industries,...
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Emem Usanga
Emem Usanga Co-lead TLA Africa Emem Usanga is the Ex-CEO and Founder of Bnkability, a technology company that ensured African trade transactions were credit ready unlocking capital for SMEs. She has over 20 years business development experience in across different sectors including automotive, retail and pharmaceuticals. In her spare time, Emem has been London Local...
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Ambar van der Wath
Ambar van der Wath Investor Relations Lead The Baobab Network Ambar van der Wath leads Investor Relations at The Baobab Network, a leading early stage, sector agnostic investor and accelerator focused on empowering tech-enabled startups throughout the African continent. Since investing in 2019, The Baobab Network has a portfolio of 40 startups across 14 countries...
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Napa Onwusah
Napa Onwusah Startups Leader Africa AWS Napa Onwusah is a business leader with 20+ years of experience working in notable blue chip companies. She's a diversity champion, angel investor, and advocate for human welfare. She is currently the Leader for AWS Startups in Africa and has held leadership roles at Google, Visa, Nokia, SAP, Cisco,...
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Kartik Renjen
Kartik Renjen Head of Startup/VC Biz Dev AWS Kartik Renjen leads the Amazon Web Services Startup Business Development team for Middle East and Africa, responsible for driving our overall relationships with VC's and A&Is in the region. His team help startups to build successful businesses using AWS from their earliest life stages by partnering with...
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