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Adewale Opaleye
Adewale Opaleye Founder and Group CEO, Alerzo Born and raised in Ibadan, Nigeria, Adewale Opaleye founded Alerzo out of his desire to use technology to fix Nigeria’s informal retail ecosystem and improve the livelihood of informal retailers, majority of whom are women. Alerzo is a business-to-business e-commerce and financial technology platform serving informal retailers and...
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Esigie Aguele
Esigie Aguele Co-founder/CEO, QoreID Co-founder and CEO of QoreID (a VerifyMe Company), responsible for meeting company vision and mission and strategic plan for growth. Esigie Aguele is an enterprise architect (CEA), Engineer, and operations expert with experience leading building FinTech products and leading public sector business transformation programs in the US. VerifyMe is an identity...
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Adeniji Oni
Adeniji Oni Principal, Niji Oni & Co Adeniji A. Oni is a legal practitioner and Principal of Niji Oni & Co. He has a span of over 10 years varied work experience in many industry sectors. Recently he has focused on Fintech, Agriculture, and the Hospitality sectors, leveraging on his background in finance and intellectual...
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Mejero Emmanuela Kunu
Mejero Emmanuela Kunu CEO, Pennee Technologies Emmanuella is the Founder and CEO of Pennee Technologies, a financial services company leveraging data and technology to provide credit and cash flow management services to small businesses to help accelerate their growth. Prior to this, she worked with several businesses as a venture development consultant. She was She...
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Paul Kimani
Paul Kimani CEO, Workpay Paul Kimani is the CEO & Co-founder of Workpay, a Payroll, Benefits and HR solution for businesses with teams in Africa. Paul is a serial entrepreneur and a firm believer in the African dream. Paul is an electrical and electronics engineering graduate from the University of Nairobi in Kenya. He previously...
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Samuel Gebre
Samuel Gebre Journalist Bloomberg Samuel Gebre is a journalist based in London covering investment into Africa and all things Ethiopia for Bloomberg
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Tarek Mouganie
Tarek Mouganie Founder Affinity Tarek Mouganie is the founder of Affinity, a fully-fledged digitally driven bank that provides fair and accessible financial services to the underserved and unbanked, targeting eight out of the seventeen UN SDGs. Affinity has built a tech platform for both digital natives and low fidelity users, enabling 24/7 banking services to...
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Delila Kidanu
Delila Kidanu Co-founder & COO KOA Delila Kidanu is the Co-founder and COO of KOA, goal based savings app based out of Nairobi, Kenya. She holds holds an MSc in Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship from The Royal Technical Institute (KTH) in Stockholm.  Previously Delila worked as the External Relations Manager at ThinkYoung developing social responsibility programs and managing corporate partners i.e. Boeing,...
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Stephen Gugu
Stephen Gugu Founder & Principal InVhestia Africa Limited Stephen Gugu is a finance professional with over 15 years extensive experience in project and corporate finance. He is a founder and principal at InVhestia Africa Limited a financial advisory firm based in Kenya and working with entrepreneurs, investors, governments and development finance institutions across Africa. Under...
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Alexandra Fraser
Alex Fraser Director and Founder Viridian Alexandra Fraser is a Director and founder of Viridian, an innovation agency that designs and delivers early-stage entrepreneur, hub and investor programmes, research and strategy. She has over 18 years’ experience in the early stage investment space, is an angel investor, start-up advocate and is passionate about building a...
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