Day: May 26, 2023

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Samuel (Akinniyi) Ajiboyede

African Changemaker

Samuel (Akinniyi) Ajiboyede

Samuel is a Nigerian disruptive digital innovator, a startup tech wizard, a serial entrepreneur, and an international keynote speaker.

Passionate about the tech revolution, Samuel has a huge experience in finance and global leadership and has grown a strong influence in Africa’s tech and digital spaces.

In 2019, he co-founded Zido Global, a financial operating system for the Supply chain. Connecting manufacturers & suppliers to carriers and the global market.

He is also the Founder & General Partner of Growth Africa Startups, an African pre-seed startup accelerator and investor helping entrepreneurs to build and scale their businesses through mentorship, access to funding, and market.

At Growth Africa Startups, Samuel is helping raise the next generation of Unicorns who will change Africa’s economy and unlock her prosperity. In 2022, he was recognized by His Imperial Majesty, the Ooni of Ife, in the (Governance and Leadership) Category of the Royal African Awards.

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Gregory Rockson

African Changemaker

Gregory Rockson

Gregory is a Ghanaian tech entrepreneur who dreams of increasing the availability and access to high-quality medicine in Africa.

He is doing this through mPharma, a technology-driven healthcare startup with a mission to connect and empower an inclusive universal medical coverage that benefits everyone in Africa by making access to healthcare affordable and safe.

Born in Ghana, Gregory moved to the US to attend university before returning home to start mPharma. Founded in 2013, mPharma specializes in vendor-managed inventory, retail pharmacy operations, and market intelligence, serving hospitals, pharmacies, and patients.

The venture-backed startup aims to shake up the healthcare industry in Africa and has a vision of making quality and safe medicine accessible and affordable. Gregory is also a World Economic Forum Global Shaper and a Rotary Scholar at the University of Copenhagen.

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Tomilola Majekodunmi

African Changemaker

Tomilola Majekodunmi

Tomi is a Nigerian tech entrepreneur with a mission to drive financial inclusion in Africa.

She is the Co-Founder and CEO of Bankly, a fintech startup taking financial services to the last mile. Bankly provides the digital infrastructure to store and move cash safely and seamlessly for Africa’s financially underserved population.

Tomi started her career as a financial analyst at Meristem Wealth Management Limited before she proceeded for her MBA at SP Jain School of Global Management in Singapore, Australia, and the United Arab Emirates. Born and raised in Lagos, she has previously built products in savings and micro-credit.

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Bright Simons

African Changemaker

Bright Simons

Bright is a Ghanaian social innovator, entrepreneur, writer, and social and political commentator.

He is the Founder and President of mPedigree, an award-winning technology social enterprise, reinventing the supply chain on three continents to enhance patient and consumer safety in such vital categories as medicines and agro inputs.

At mPedigree, Bright is helping to build innovative technology tools to solve global challenges. A career inventor and innovator, Bright’s current projects include vaccine quality detection using novel organo-sensors.

His contribution to the healthcare system has earned him several awards, including the Lifetime Achievement award from the African Innovation Foundation. In 2013, MIT’s Tech Review named him to the list of the 35 most impressive global technology visionaries under age 35.

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Adegoke Olubusi

African Changemaker

Adegoke Olubusi

Adegoke Olubusi is a Nigerian-American entrepreneur and investor.

He is the co-founder and CEO of Helium Health, a healthcare technology company that provides digital infrastructure for healthcare providers in Africa. He is also the managing partner of MAGIC Fund, an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in African startups.

Helium Health is on a mission to make quality healthcare a reality for all Africans by providing digital infrastructure for the continent’s ailing healthcare system.

The startup’s platform provides healthcare providers with a suite of tools to manage their operations, including electronic medical records, patient scheduling, and billing. Olubusi has received numerous awards, including the Forbes 30 Under 30 and Future Africa Awards.

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Angela Kyerematen-Jimoh

African Changemaker

Angela Kyerematen-Jimoh

Angela is a Ghanaian business leader and an international corporate expert.

She currently serves as Microsoft’s Strategic Partnership Lead for Africa at the newly formed Africa Transformation Office. In her role, Angela is driving Microsoft’s strategic partnerships and alliances to accelerate digital transformation in Africa.

Angela has an extensive working experience in the financial services and technology industries in Africa and Europe. Passionate about the transformation of Africa’s digital and technological landscape, Angela is also a strong advocate of ‘women supporting women’ and is an avid mentor for women in the corporate sector.

In 2020, she was named among Africa’s 2020 Top 100 Most Influential Women by Avance Media. She is also a recipient of several global honours, including the US African Women Forum’s Global Impact Leadership Award and the African Achievers Awards for Excellence in Business.

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Kola Aina

African Changemaker

Kola is a Nigerian entrepreneur and investor in Africa’s tech space.

He is the Founder and CEO of Ventures Platform Fund, an Africa-focused seed-stage fund and accelerator championing the next generation of African entrepreneurs.

Ventures Platform also operates a leading startup accelerator providing advisory, mentorship, back office support, and need-based residency to selected startups.

At Ventures Platform, Kola identifies and invests in early-stage startups focused on disrupting financial services, healthcare, education, agriculture, and enterprise software.

A passionate ecosystem builder, Kola believes Africans can build scalable businesses that can move the continent forward – especially when they leverage innovative technology.

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Shamim Nabuuma Kaliisa

African Changemaker

Shamim Nabuuma Kaliisa

Shamim is a Ugandan innovator, Social Entrepreneur, and the mastermind behind a popular cancer screening app helping thousands of African women detect the disease.

She is the Founder of Chil Artificial Intelligence Lab, a company incorporating artificial intelligence-guided e-oncology services to detect cervical and breast cancer.

Shamim is also serving as Africa’s representative on the Commonwealth Youth Council Executive Committee, where she is helping bridge the gap between young African entrepreneurs and investors willing to invest in Africa.

She is a winner of the Takeda Young Entrepreneur Award 2018, Young African Entrepreneur Award 2018, and a Social Impact Finalist at AWIEF Awards.

In 2021, she was selected by the Bloomberg New Economy as one of the extraordinary individuals forming the inaugural class of catalysts that includes 30 other scientists, researchers, entrepreneurs and policymakers.

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Andrew Mori

African Changemaker

Andrew Mori

Andrew is a South African computer engineer and tech entrepreneur.

He is the Founder and CEO of Deimos, one of Google Cloud’s largest partners in Africa. At Deimos, Andrew is helping companies, mainly from Africa, to migrate their data to the cloud.

A true believer and enabler of the African Technology Renaissance, Andrew is on a mission to transform African and global businesses through cloud-native technology while fast-tracking digital transformation.

He started his journey in software development as an astrophysicist and previously worked on the Square Kilometre Array Radio Telescope in South Africa.

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