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Tunde Kehinde
Tunde Kehinde Co-founder Lidya Tunde Kehinde is the Co-Founder Lidya (www.lidya.co), the future of finance for small businesses in frontier markets. Through its digital platform, Lidya analyzes over 100 data points to help great business owners access financing and build a credit score through an easy and inspiring lending process.  Lidya currently operates in Nigeria...
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Tomi Davies
Tomi Davies Collaborator-in-Chief TVC Labs Harry ‘Tomi Davies (TD) is Collaborator-in-Chief (CiC)’ at TVC Labs, an entrepreneurship support organisation working with technology-enabled innovation in Lagos, Nigeria which he founded.  TD is the founding President of the African Business Angel Network (ABAN) and board member of the Global Business Angel Network (GBAN). As an active stakeholder...
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Yoel Kenan
Yoel Kenan Founder & CEO AFRICORI Yoel Kenan is the founder and CEO of AFRICORI, the leading pan-African digital music distributor. Africori offers label services, digital distribution, synch licensing and publishing to artists, songwriters, labels and other music rights holders in Africa. Yoel has over 30 years experience in the international music industry at senior...
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Jason Spindler
Jason Spindler Managing Director I-DEV International Jason Spindler leads I-DEV’s global team, vision and strategy. Jason has nearly two decades of experience in investment banking, venture capital, business management and industry development across both developed and developing markets. Prior to launching I-DEV International, Jason worked at Salomon Smith Barney/Citigroup in the Global Capital Markets Group and...
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Dotun Olowoporoku
Dotun Olowoporoku Managing Partner Starta Dotun is the Managing Partner at Starta, a growth marketing advisory for tech-enabled business startups and scale-ups in Africa. He is the host of Building the Future podcast which chronicles African growth narrative through one-on-one conversation with people that are using entrepreneurship, technology, innovation, and civic leadership to shape the African...
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Clare Spencer
Clare Spencer Journalist  Clare Spencer is a British journalist covering Africa but her pet subject is technology across Africa. She is interested in the journey of start-ups in emerging markets and the ingenious inventions solving the world’s problems.
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Fatoumata BA
Fatoumata BA Founder & CEO Janngo Fatoumata BA is a Board Member, Investor & Entrepreneur currently the Founder & CEO of Janngo, the #1 tech for good platform in Africa. At Jumia, the #1 African unicorn, she served as Founder & CEO in Ivory Coast, Managing Director in Nigeria and Member of the Executive committee...
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Nicole Kayode
Nicole Kayode Co-founder Medixus Nicole Kayode is the co-founder of Medixus; a mobile platform connecting medics across Africa in real time, allowing them to collaborate on patient cases. Medixus uses technology to centralise medical knowledge on the continent and ensures every frontline healthcare worker has access to that knowledge.  Nicole has a background in medical research...
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Wambui Kinya
Wambui Kinya Vice President of Success Andela Wambui Kinya is the Vice President of Success at Andela, a technology company that helps companies build high performing distributed engineering teams by investing in Africa’s most talented software developers. Founded on the premise that brilliance is evenly distributed, Andela has built one of the most selective engineering...
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Chi Onwurah
Chi Onwurah Labour MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central Shadow Minister for Industrial Strategy, Science & Innovation Chi Onwurah is a British Member of Parliament representing Newcastle upon Tyne Central and is also Shadow Minister for Industrial Strategy Science & Innovation. From Sept 2015-October 2016 Chi was Shadow Minister for Culture and the Digital Economy....
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