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Oscar Onyema is the chief executive officer of The Nigerian Stock Exchange. Onyema holds a B.Sc Computer Engineering degree from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria and an MBA, Finance and Investments, Ziklin School of Business, Baruch College, New York.

Oscar Onyema served as Chief Administrative Officer and Senior Vice President of American Stock Exchange LLC. Mr. Onyema serves as a primary liaison among various Amex operating divisions, the trading floor community, and external constituents. In addition, he is responsible for strategy and competitive analysis, Membership and Registration Department and Market Data Services Department.

Mr. Onyema has been instrumental in Amex's preparation for Regulation NMS. Mr. Onyema joined the Amex in January 2001, and has served in various positions, most recently as Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer.

Before joining the Amex, Mr. Onyema worked at the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) as Senior Analyst for Business Planning and Development. He also worked at DPMS (IBM Business Partner) as a Marketing Executive marketing IBM mid-range systems.

He serves on several industry committees including CTA Operating Committee, NASDAQ UTP Plan Operating Committee, and SIFMA / FIF Regulation NMS working group. He served as an adjunct lecturer at the Economics Department of Pace University for five years, and is a frequent public speaker on market structure and market data issues. Mr. Onyema received an MBA in Finance and Investments from Baruch College in New York City.

Chineze Anyaene, 26, is the Award-winning director of IJE. She was also the first student film producer in the history of the New York Film Academy to shoot a feature film on 35mm.


The film "Ije: The Journey" chronicles the story of a young woman from rural Nigeria who immigrates to the rocket-paced, star-crazed world of Los Angeles. And while the personal stories of the director of that film, Chineze Anyaene, and her protagonist are not exactly identical -- the latter ends up on trial for the murder of three men -- there are distinct similarities between the two women who changed their addresses and perspectives from West Africa to the American West.

Chineze recently featured in Levi's action series ‘Shape of what’s to come' - a collection of interviews featuring young women who have contributed positively to the arts and various other fields.

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Ofili is an International Motivational and Keynote Speaker on the college circuit. Utilizing personal anecdotes and interactive activities he is able to provide instrumental advice that helps guide College and High-School students towards excellence.

He is the author of the inspiring memoir HOW STUPIDITY SAVED MY LIFE and has been featured in magazines and radio stations across the globe. His www.ofilispeaks.com “Monthly Success Tips” have been viewed and downloaded in over 30 different countries.

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Chiedu Ifeozo was born in Lagos and his family is originally from Ubulu-uku in Delta state. He completed his secondary school education at Kings College Lagos, and graduated with a master’s degree in Electronics Engineering from the University of Surrey, England.

Today he is know as Nigeria's YouTube poet. Chiedu who recently featured in CNN's Inside Africa uses this medium to reach out to his audience.


He self-published his first collection of poetry titled "Thoughts on a page", in 2008, and most of his work follows a spoken word style of writing which focuses mainly on topics such as politics, social commentary, youth empowerment, inspirational poetry and romance.

In 2009, using the profit generated from the sale of his first book, he financed, edited and printed an anthology titled poetry for charity.


His poetry collection was reviewed positively by next newspaper, Nigeria, and his poems have been featured on Badalisha poetry radio, SouthAfrica, Jamati online, Kenya, poetry digest magazine, Nigeria and “how far(cupids edition)” by switchedonnaija.

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Chikodi Chima

Chikodi is the West Coast editor of The Next Web. The Next Web is one of the world’s largest online publications that delivers an international perspective on the latest news about Internet technology, business and culture. With an active, influential audience consisting of more than 4 million monthly visits and over 5.5 million monthly page views,


Chikodi covers topics of startups and techpreneurship for top publications such as Mashable, VentureBeat, GigaOm, ScribeMedia, Fast Company, Shareable, The Philadelphia Weekly and The New York Press. His is also co-founding editor of AltTransport, a Breaking Media site about sustainable transportation, cleantech and innovating the ways in which people move.


Based in San Francisco, he's currently working on The Future Journalism Project, a documentary about disruption of legacy media at the hands of emerging technologies.

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Chikodi Chima

Chikodi is the West Coast editor of The Next Web. The Next Web is one of the world’s largest online publications that delivers an international perspective on the latest news about Internet technology, business and culture. With an active, influential audience consisting of more than 4 million monthly visits and over 5.5 million monthly page views,


Chikodi covers topics of startups and techpreneurship for top publications such as Mashable, VentureBeat, GigaOm, ScribeMedia, Fast Company, Shareable, The Philadelphia Weekly and The New York Press. His is also co-founding editor of AltTransport, a Breaking Media site about sustainable transportation, cleantech and innovating the ways in which people move.


Based in San Francisco, he's currently working on The Future Journalism Project, a documentary about disruption of legacy media at the hands of emerging technologies.

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Nnena Ukuku is Co-Founder and CEO of Black Founders Startup Ventures. Black Founders aims to increase the number and visibility of black entrepreneurs by connecting and equipping the entrepreneur.

Nnena Ukuku is also an attorney who works with early stage start-ups. She works with them because, like her, they believe they can change their world and are passionate.

You can follow Nnena on Twitter at @nukuku and her startup at @blackfounders.

Born on the 14th of January in Leningrad, Russia, Vera is a writer, blogger and an online talk radio host.
A Psychology graduate of the University of Maryland, she hails from Adazi-Nnukwu in Anambra State.

Vera moved to America in 2000 and started her well-known blog Verastically Livin' in 2006. In 2009, she moved into another dimension; Vera started hosting ‘The Verastic Show’ online. With topics such as relationships, religion, sex, money, etc, listeners have consistently tuned in every Saturday between 10am to 11:30am (U.S. Eastern time).

Since its debut, the show has had hundreds of co-hosts from in and out of America and has been listened to more than 50, 000 times --- and still counting. The show has attracted listeners and callers from different countries, including but not limited to Canada, the United States of America, Australia, Cyprus, Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana, Germany, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Poland, Italy and the United Kingdom.

In April 2012, Vera moved the show to a new network – Gidilounge. Gidilounge Radio is Africa’s first All Mobile Radio station. It provides a mix of talk, music, entertainment, and information to enhance Nigeria’s cultural landscape.

If afonja can come close in this field of study and not accountant and journalism where they learn and master their lies and fraud very well then I will quit nairaland..

Emmanuel Ohuabunwa

Emmanuel Ohuabunwa is an incredibly intelligent 22-year-old Nigerian, who in May 2012, emerged the best graduating student of John Hopkins University in the United States.

Ohuabunwa made history when he obtained a Grade Point Average of 3.98 out of a possible 4.0 to earn a degree in Neurosciences; he also holds the highest honours conferred during the May 24, 2012 graduation ceremony.

Ohuabunwa, who hails from Abia State, was born in Okota in Lagos State. He was 13 years old when, with his family, Ohuabunwa left the hustle, bustle and familiarity of Lagos, Nigeria for Houston, Texas.

An outstanding young mind, Emmanuel recently joined the Phi Beta Kappa community, a prestigious honor group that features membership of 17 US Presidents, 37 US Supreme Court Justices and 136 Nobel Prize winners. Emmanuel Ohuabunwa is currently furthering his studies at the Yale University School of Medicine.

Enyinne Owunwanne

In 2008, Enyinne ( @enyinneo ), a former Hedge Fund Operations Analyst, decided to leave the world of Wall Street behind and pursue a path of entrepreneurship.

She started Heritage1960, a blogzine and an online retail destination offering a curated view of global African fashion, lifestyle, and design. Named after the year 17 African countries won their independence, Heritage1960 celebrates freedom, individuality and unique style inspired by the continent.

Born in the US, Enyinne grew up in Kuwait and has lived and studied in Philadelphia. She has a Masters Degree in Global Fashion Management and worked as a US Business Development Manager at London-based trend forecasting company Worth Global Style Network (WGSN).

H1960MUSE is Enyinne’s Tumblr moodboard, “a collection of people, places and things that inspire” her. She is one to watch.

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Spotting the disconnect between online shoppers and retailers — which has birthed issues of distrust in the eCommerce turf in Nigeria - Ibe Kingsley launched a customer-driven online retail solution.

Priceslash, as it is named, is an online retail company that focuses on creating value for customers by providing them access to low prices on desired products.
Profit making is no doubt the underlying objective of most businesses. While acknowledging the importance of sales, the founders of Priceslash believe the absence of customer satisfaction does not guarantee a successful business model. This then begs the question of how Priceslash is able to create value while delivering low prices.

This is made possible by having a significant number of partners as local manufacturers and SMLRs (Small Medium and Large Retailers) who deal primarily in locally-sourced and produced items.

According to the founder, “All the products go through a rigorous process of quality control to ensure that the final product delivered to the customer meets or even exceeds their expectations.”

In addition to the above, they also provide an all-round clock customer support, as well as a 48-hour money back guarantee on defective items.

Since launching on the 20th of March 2017, Priceslash claims to have made significant sales which proves the validity of the business model.

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This guy is a genius...

Nicholas Okoye (@NickyOkoye) is presently the President and Chief Executive Officer of Anabel Group Inc, the group includes Anabel Mobile Limited, Nigeria’s pioneer tier one Manufacturer of Smart Mobile Devices, online portals and data platforms, Anabel Capital, Advisor and capacity building Consultant to the Central Bank of Nigeria. Anabel Technology specializes in developing applications that allow groups, associations and corporations to share work reports off site and integrate solutions from anywhere in the World.

Nicholas Okoye is the founding Group Executive Director and the first Leader of the pioneer Executive team that set up the Transnational Corporation of Nigeria Plc (Transcorp), Nigeria’s first home grown conglomerate, involved in Oil, Gas, Hospitality and Agriculture. At Transcorp, Nicholas was responsible for rising over $1 billion USD in less than twelve months which was recorded and still is, one of Nigeria’s most successful capital raising exercises till date.


In 2005 Nicholas was nominated as one of the top forty Nigerians “under forty” by Nigeria’s leading News Papers. He was also nominated twice, first in 2006 and then 2008 as one of the top five most innovative young Executives in Nigeria by one of the Country’s leading New Papers, ThisDay, at its annual Thisday Awards ceremony.

Nicholas was educated at the Anambra State University of Technology where he gained a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Micro Biology and Genetic Engineering. He has participated in extensive higher educational programs including Executive Educational courses at Harvard Business School and London Business School. He is married with three children.

Chinwe Lucy Ozoegwu


Chinwe is currently researching autonomous self-adapting industrial in-house built robots, and how they can be used to facilitate mass customization. Robots, she hopes, will learn from their own experiences without being restricted to pre-conceived routines. In other words robots will use their experiences to think for themselves.

Chinwe Ozoegwu received her BEng in Electrical and Electronics (4.62/5 GPA) from Moscow Power Engineering Institute, an MSc in Electronics and Information Technology (with Distinction) from Sheffield Hallam University and is currently pursuing a PhD in Industrial Automation and Robotics in Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

In line with her stellar academic credentials, Chinwe secured a Bilateral Education agreement between Nigeria and Russia including free tuition, maintenance, insurance, book and travel allowances from the Russian and Nigerian governments, at Tver State Technical University and Moscow Power Engineering Institute.

She is also currently lecturing a range of engineering subjects at the undergraduate level. She is also fervently committed to inspiring young women to study Engineering and Science disciplines, and is a member of Women in science, Engineering and Technology of Sheffield Hallam University.

LINK: Chinwe explains the science behind the Festo robot arm (YouTube).

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Justus Nwaoga is among ten 2013 African innovators who were nominated for developing practical solutions to some of the continent’s most intractable problems. They were chosen from more than 900 applications from 45 countries. The finalists for the Innovation Prize for Africa, IPA, 2013 provided practical examples of Africa’s investment potentials.

Nwaoga was nominated for developing a new way to collect renewable solar energy by using the mimosa pudica weed, an organic African medicinal plant. With this breakthrough, it was possible to construct a functional mimosa solar panel with the Mimosa plant extract. The solar panel is designed in such a way that the electrical potential of the cells can be restored on exposure to direct sun rays, after they have been discharged.

The Innovation Prize for Africa is an award founded by the African Innovation Foundation and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. It mobilises African innovators and entrepreneurs by providing a total of $150 000 to winners who deliver market-oriented solutions for African-led development. The prize encourages private equity investors, government and development leaders to invest across sectors and build a climate that fuels Africa’s economic growth.

Nwaogu is with the Department of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

MIT graduate student Chidube Ezeozue is a first class electrical engineering graduate of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He is currently pursuing dual master’s degrees in MIT’s Technology and Policy Program and in electrical engineering and computer science.

Frustrated by his nation’s erratic electrical grid, Chidube created an app, with his brother, that crowdsources information about Nigerian power outages. With the app, called NepaSituation, people living in Nigeria can report outages. This data, when merged into an algorithm developed by Ezeozue, can help Nigerians predict when power outages may strike their neighborhoods, and how long those outages might last.

After graduating from MIT in June, Ezeozue will remain in Cambridge, working as a software engineer for Google.

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Sources: Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Bella Naija

Emeka Afigbo is the Google Outreach Program Manager for Sub-Saharan Africa. He leads Google's efforts to discover, inspire, mobilise and support tech entrepreneurs and software developers across Africa. He is also focused on growing the internet ecosystem and enhancing locally relevant content across the region through local developers.

Emeka studied Electronic Engineering at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He has a Masters Degree in Technology Innovation Management from Carleton University, Canada.

Emeka worked for Socket Works, SW Global and Parkway before joining Google in 2011.

Sources: otekbits, TedX

Uche Orji is the Managing Director/CEO of the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA). Mr. Orji joined the NSIA as CEO on October 2nd 2012 from UBS Securities, where he was Managing Director in the New York branch of its Equities division. Prior to his experience at UBS, Mr. Orji was a Managing Director in J.P. Morgan’s Equities division in London. Prior to JP Morgan, Mr. Orji was at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, London, as analyst/portfolio manager.

Mr. Orji holds a BEng in Chemical Engineering from the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) was set up by an Act of Nigeria’s National Assembly (the NSIA Act) in 2011. The objective of the NSIA is to promote fiscal stability, build a savings base for future generations of Nigerians.

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Joanna Chikwe is Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Associate Program Director of the Integrated and Independent Thoracic Surgery Residency Programs. She is also Mount Sinai's first female cardiac surgeon.

Dr. Joanna Chikwe specializes in using minimally invasive cardiac surgery techniques to reduce post-operative discomfort, speed recovery and improve cosmetic appearance of incisions after surgery.

Dr. Chikwe is one of a handful of US surgeons with advanced training in both reconstructive valve surgery and minimally invasive cardiac surgery techniques such as off-pump, video and robotic-assisted surgery. She works closely with a dedicated plastic surgery and anesthesiology team with a specialist interest in minimally invasive cardiac surgery. Dr. Chikwe employs valve repair to preserve natural valve tissue wherever possible, as well as off-pump surgery to avoid cardiopulmonary bypass for selected coronary bypass procedures.

Dr. Chikwe received her medical degree from Oxford University. She completed her general surgery residency at Oxford and Cambridge, followed by research into cardiac transplantation for which she received a Masters degree from Cambridge University.

Dr. Joanna Chikwe completed her residency in cardiothoracic surgery on the Royal Brompton Hospital rotation where she gained expertise in minimally invasive surgery, including two years specializing in off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting and video assisted and robotic cardiac surgery. She successfully completed a two year advanced fellowship under Dr David Adams focusing on mitral valve repair and aortic reconstruction at Mount Sinai Medical Center.

Joanna has published widely in the field of cardiac surgery. She is the author of three key surgical textbooks, including Cardiothoracic Surgery in the Oxford Specialist series; and she has published several book chapters and articles on minimally invasive surgery. Joanna is also active in clinical research, authoring over fifty scientific articles and abstracts published in peer-reviewed journals or presented at international scientific meetings. Her international awards include a Fulbright Award and she is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.

Christian Nwachukwu, Jr is an appointee of the Obama White House and serves as the senior speechwriter to CEO Wendy Spencer ( Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service [CNCS]) at the Corporation for National and Community Service. Previously, Christian served as a speechwriter to New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg from 2011-13.


Christian Nwachukwu, Jr. grew up on a farm in Manson, North Carolina, studied in Warren County Public Schools, and graduated from Morehouse College. He has lived in Atlanta; Washington, D.C.; Venice, Italy; Los Angeles; and New York City. He is a former Editor at Large at The Freedom Writers Foundation.

Odera Ume-Ezeoke is the founder and CEO of Viewsy

Viewsy is a rapidly growing location analytics startup, formed in 2011 as a solution to a common problem faced by retailers the world over: understanding's customer behavior in physical space in order to manage businesses better. Viewsy's solution continues to excite the marketplace. Clients include Vodafone, Amsterdam Arena and Google.

He has a degree in Management, IT & Languages from University of York.

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Chika Nwobi is the Founder and Managing Partner of L5Lab, a Nigeria based business incubator in the mobile Internet space. Before L5Lab, Chika was co-founder and Group CEO of MTech PLC. Chika led MTech to become the leading mobile content company in Africa with operations in Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Ivory Coast serving the likes of MTN, Glo, Zain, Virgin Nigeria, Pepsi, Nigerian Breweries and Nokia. He remains a major shareholder and a member of the board of directors.

Prior to MTech, Mr. Nwobi was a consulted for the Ford Foundation, working on a mobile microfinance management systems. He also worked as a consultant for the IFC (World Bank) and Airtuit (USA) where his job involved working with Fortune 500 clients to formulate their wireless strategy to exploit opportunities in M-Commerce.

Mr. Nwobi graduated as an Honors scholar from East Tennessee State University, with a BA in Economics and a B.Sc. in Computer Science. He was part of the Nigeria 2025 Scenarios Team and was a nominee for the Future Awards Entrepreneur of the Year and Young Person of The Year, 2007. He has been an invited speaker twice at the GSM Africa conference in Cape Town, South Africa.

Source: Black Entrepreneur Profile

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Kelechi Anyadiegwu (@KelechiUjuu) is the founder of Zuvaa. Zuvaa creates a unique social shopping experience that connects customers all over the globe to African style. Zuvaa also offers unique products from around the world as well as a community that embraces and engages the customer through meaningful cultural stories about each designer. She started Zuvaa to fill a void she saw in the African Fashion Industry, a place for affordable, ethically made, African Inspired Pieces.


Kelechi is a also social media and community engagement expert, having worked on a wide range of projects and clients, from EA Sports to the Microelectromechanical Systems Sensors Trade Association. She has also the founder of JELYPals, which is an edtech startup that seeks to use education and technology to create bridges in the African Diaspora.


Source: Inc Magazine

Phillip Ihenacho has 20 years of corporate finance and consulting experience. He is currently Chairman of Seven Energy, a leading independent oil and gas company in Nigeria that was bought out from Weatherford, the NYSE listed oil and gas services company.

Phillip was previously CEO of UBA Capital Europe Ltd (formerly Afrinvest UK) and is a co-founder of the premier West African investment bank, Afrinvest West Africa. Phillip has been active in the African telecommunications, financial services and oil & gas industries for more than 12 years.

During the course of the last several years, he has been involved in capital raising and acquisition advisory mandates in Ghana, Nigeria, and Cote d’Ivoire, on behalf of multinational and regional telecommunications companies, oil and gas companies, and financial institutions.

Prior to Afrinvest, Phillip worked for McKinsey & Co. in New York, London, Stockholm and Johannesburg. While at McKinsey he worked primarily in corporate finance-related assignments, particularly in privatisation, capital markets and banking areas. He has also served as Chairman of the Investment Committee of Aureos West Africa Fund.

Phillip has a BA in History from Yale University and a JD in law from Harvard Law School. He was born in Lagos and grew up in Jos, Nigeria.

Yvonne Ike is an internationally regarded investment banker credited with pioneering a number of ground breaking transactions which significantly deepened the Nigerian market . With over 18 years professional experience in financial services.Yvonne has led senior teams across New York, Geneva, Hong-Kong Nigeria, South Africa and India.

She gained exposure to all capital market operations and products including fixed income, derivatives, and equities. Yvonne was appointed Managing Director with responsibility for West Africa, allowing her to work mainly in Nigeria. In this role Yvonne was instrumental in raising the profile of Nigeria as an investment destination for international investors and was involved in 28 transactions across Africa.

She led innovative transactions including GT Bank’s Global Depositary Receipt (GDR) a US750M listing on the London Stock Exchange, the US$300M UBA GDR, Yvonne led on the merger of Stanbic and IBTC. In an advisory capacity Yvonne provided financial and ratings advise to the Federal Government of Nigeria , the Ghanaian Government and The Lagos State Government. She led a team that built a cross product business that exceeded revenues of $100m.

In 2008 she was a member of the special Technical Committee for the Review of Capital Market Structure . Yvonne has a BSc in economic and spent the first three years of her career as an auditor with Ernst and Young International. She has been an FSA registered representative since 1994. In 2007 she received recognition from Her Majesty The Queen as one of the Top 200 business women in the UK to make a significant impact on society. she was listed on the UK Powerlist in 2008. A keen supporter of charitable projects including the acting as a senior advisor. African Gifted Foundation . She is the current Vice Chair of the Prince’s Trust Women’s Leadership Group.

Amede Nzeribe, founder of AMEDE, is one of the leading icons in the Nigerian fashion industry. Amede, a lawyer turned designer believes in designing timeless classic pieces that appeal to women of all ages. The brand has graced the catwalks of major fashion shows like Arise Magazine Fashion week for two consecutive years, and the Lagos Fashion and design week for three consecutive years. The brand has been featured in major publications like Conde Nast, Glamour, Elle and Vogue magazine. The brand has also had the opportunity to be featured alongside international brands like Mary Katranzou, Lanvin, Prada etc on international showroom sites mytrand.com for international fashion buyers, bloggers and fashion editors.

Amede’s 2015 coolection, ‘The Lady’ featured at the Catwalk Edit London Fashion Week event this year at Chelsea Old Town Hall. Amede hails from Oguta in Imo State.

Sources: Amede, Dr Ebere Okereke, London Fashion Week, Vogue, Prada

In 2001, Harrison C. Nwozo Jr, created Tribe X Entertainment LLC, a promotions and Nigerian brand marketing company in Maryland, USA.

Tribe X Entertainment has promoted and sponsored many historical events in the Washington DC Metropolitan area. They include his first event in 2001, a Banky W concert in Washington DC, several Nollywood movie premieres, African International Beauty Pageants, fashion shows, Soccer tournaments, Fundraisers, African Festivals and numerous concerts featuring Nigeria’s top acts like Tuface, Dbanj, Flavour Nabania, Julius Agwu, and P Square to name a few.

Harrison "Harry Baba" Nwozo Jr won the Award for Best US based Promoter in 2008 from the Nigerian entertainment Awards, New York.

In 2011, Mr Nwozo assembled a group of talented young African artists in the Diaspora and he co-executively produced a song and video whose theme was African Unity: "Africans. In addition, Harrison created the ‘Ndi Igbo Jikotanu’ mixtapes to promote unity among the Igbos around the world.

Harrison hails from Inyi in Oji River LGA in Enugu State Nigeria. He currently resides in Maryland USA.

Ebele Okobi is facebook's head of public policy in Africa. Before joining Facebook Ebele was the Director of Yahoo!’s Business & Human Rights Program, leading Yahoo!’s efforts to promote privacy and free expression on the Internet.

Before Yahoo!, Ebele worked as a corporate securities and mergers & acquisitions attorney at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York, Paris and London, an attorney fellow at Consumers Union (a consumer rights advocacy non-profit) in San Francisco, a director of Advisory Services at Catalyst (a non-profit with the mission of advancing women in business) in San Jose and Amsterdam and at Nike’s EMEA headquarters in Amsterdam, where she created marketing, corporate responsibility and business development strategy for Africa. In 2001, she took a year-long sabbatical in order to volunteer for human rights organizations in the US and Senegal.

Ms. Okobi, who hails from Asaba, earned a BA in Psychology from the University of Southern California, a JD from Columbia Law School and an MBA Certificat des Études from HEC-Paris.

Special thanks to Chika Unigwe
Sources: The RealTime Report, LinkedIn

Ijeoma is the CEO/Co­founder of Beavly. Beavly is an online marketplace that connects people to top professionals with the purpose of learning alongside them in their workplace. Trainees gain practical knowledge and hands-on experience by interacting physically with the professionals.


Ijeoma Oguegbu graduated from the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST), a non-profit post-graduate training and mentoring program and startup incubator, in June, 2016. She had studied Computer Science and Business Management at Wisconsin International University College in Ghana.

Sources: AngelList, LeadingLadies Africa, SheLeadsAfrica, TechPoint Nigeria

Chioma Ude is the enigmatic founder and executive director of Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF). An avid film watcher and commentator, her passion for the industry grew more intense after her involvement in the production of the 2007 Nigerian Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) UK Roadshow. The ensuing relationship culminated in Chioma producing the 2008 Africa Movie Academy Awards and the institution of a brainchild of hers called the AMAA Charity Benefit. This novel initiative was designed to be an annual Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) platform for industry practitioners and stakeholders to give back to society.

In 2009, she went on to become the local producer of the ION International Film Festival (IONIFF), held in Port Harcourt, Rivers State in Nigeria. IONIFF is a global touring festival originating from Hollywood, whose objective is the promotion of global awareness and peace through arts, culture and films.

Chioma has a degree in marketing from University Of Nigeria, Nsukka


Sources: Wikipedia, AFRIFF, Ventures Africa

Austin describes himself as the weirdest tech YouTuber you're not subscribed to. If you like tech, gaming, and comedy, his channel is the place to go.

A Social media influencer and entrepreneur with an academic background in computer engineering. Austin manages a YouTube channel where he provides comical but candid technology-based videos to an audience of almost 50,000 subscribers. Because of this experience, he has amassed over 6 million views and partnerships with YouTube, Amazon, Motorola, HP, LG, and many other marketing companies.

Austin was recently named by DailyTekk as one of the most promising Tech reviewers on YouTube.