Month: May 2023

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Amir Barsoum

African Changemaker

Amir Barsoum

Amir is an Egyptian health-tech industry veteran behind one of Africa’s leading health booking platforms.

Recognized as one of Fortune’s 40 under 40 global healthcare leaders in 2020, Amir is passionate about bringing transparency and convenience in the healthcare space in the Middle Eastern and North African markets.

He is the Founder and CEO of Vezeeta, a platform revolutionizing the healthcare space by offering patients a personalized, end-to-end healthcare experience from diagnosis to delivery of ongoing care and medications. Vezeeta seamlessly connects multiple stakeholders within the healthcare ecosystem to offer a one-stop-shop solution for all patients.

Through his leadership, Amir has steered Vezeeta to become one of the top digital health-tech platforms outside of the US, EU, and China, having served over 10 million patients across Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Kenya, and Nigeria.

Amir and his team of 400+ innovators at Vezeeta are on a mission to transform the 1.1-trillion-dollar health industry from ‘the inside out, one city at a time.’ Outside of Vezeeta, Amir has helped shape the greater business community as an active angel investor and mentor for several start-ups around the world.

 

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Rebecca Enonchong

African Changemaker

Rebecca Enonchong

Rebecca is a leading global provider of enterprise application solutions, a tech entrepreneur, a mentor, and an advisor to several technology startups.

She is the Founder and CEO of AppsTech, a company building software that powers businesses. She is also the Co-Founder of the African Business Angel Network (ABAN), a pan-African non-profit association supporting the development of early-stage investor networks across the continent and getting many more early-stage investors excited about the opportunities in Africa.

Born in Cameroon, Rebecca is widely regarded as one of the most influential technology entrepreneurs in sub-Saharan Africa. Through her technology leadership and active involvement in Africa’s tech space, the 55-year-old has made a significant contribution to the promotion of innovation and entrepreneurship across the continent.

She is a recipient of numerous awards and has previously been named a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum.

 

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Tony O. Elumelu

African Changemaker

Tony O. Elumelu

Tony Elumelu is a Nigerian entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist passionate about Africa’s economic development.

A champion of #Africapitalism, the 59-year-old is on a mission to position Africa’s private sector and, most importantly, entrepreneurs as the catalyst for the social and economic development of the continent.

He is the founder of The Tony Elumelu Foundation, a philanthropic organization empowering African entrepreneurs to catalyze economic growth, drive poverty eradication, and ensure job creation.

Tony is also serving as the Chairman of Heirs Holdings, a family-owned investment holding company.

 

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Nneile Nkholise

African Changemaker

Nneile Nkholise

Nneile is a South African mechanical engineer and social entrepreneur with a vision to transform Africa through technology.

Born in Lesotho, Nneile developed an interest in science and technology as a young girl. She is widely known for founding iMed Tech, a medical innovation startup which produces prosthetics for cancer patients and burns victims.

Nneile has since founded THOLA, an API-enabled platform providing a product-based peer-to-peer lending marketplace that enables consumers to lend working capital to small businesses by pre-ordering their goods and processing payment on the marketplace.

In 2016, she was recognized as Africa’s top female innovator by the World Economic Forum. A year later, the Office of the Presidency recognized her as the South African Youth of the Year.

 

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Ken Njoroge

African Changemaker

Ken Njoroge

Ken is a Kenyan tech entrepreneur, scale-up coach, and digital evangelist.

He is widely known for his role in co-founding Cellulant, a Pan-African fintech giant connecting entrepreneurs and innovators across Africa through seamless digital commerce.

Ken served as Cellulant’s Group CEO for more than 17 years, steering it to unprecedented growth, currently operating in 35 African countries with millions of end users.

As Cellulant’s founding CEO, Ken led the company from an idea sketched on a serviette in 2002 to a reputable company in Africa with more than 350 employees across 11 markets.

The Kenyan entrepreneur has since shifted his focus to Pani, a boutique investment firm empowering the next generation of entrepreneurs and the startup ecosystem in Africa. His firm offers executive coaching and cash investments to promising founders in exchange for equity.

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Cina Lawson

African Changemaker

Cina Lawson

Cina is currently serving as Togo’s Minister of Posts, Digital Economy and Technological Innovation.

Drawing from over 20 years of experience and expertise in digital policy and telecommunication, Cina has led Togo’s successful transition to an inclusive digital economy.

Under her leadership, Togo became the first West African country to deploy 5G services. She has also played a prominent role in increasing digital service penetration in her country, with a majority of the population now having access to mobile telephony.

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, she spearheaded Togo’s flagship digital cash transfer program, “Novissi,” which delivered cash transfers to nearly a million of the poorest Togolese citizens.

To date, Novissi is hailed as one of the world’s most successful COVID-19 social protection programs. Cina has received international accolades for her work, including from the World Economic Forum, Forbes, and Jeune Afrique.

 

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Verone Mankou

African Changemaker

Verone Mankou

Mankou is widely recognized for his contribution to the development of Africa through smart innovations.

Born in Congo, Mankou is an engineer, entrepreneur, author, and speaker who designed the first African tablet, the ‘Way-C’ touchpad, and the ‘Elikia’, the first African smartphone.

He developed an insatiable passion for computer science at a young age before living his dream with the launch of his technology consulting firm, VMK.

Mankou founded the tech company in 2009 to tap into the growing African mobile phone market with products made in the continent to compete with the likes of Apple, Samsung and Blackberry.

His contribution to Africa’s technology and innovation growth has earned him numerous recognitions from Forbes, New African Magazine, and Choiseul.

 

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Eunice Ajim

African Changemaker

Eunice Ajim

Eunice is a Cameroonian American serial tech entrepreneur and investor with a mission of funding Africa’s future.

She is the founder of Ajim Capital, a venture capital firm based in the US that invests in early-stage technology startup companies in Africa. Before founding Ajim Capital, Eunice co-founded OpenTeams, an online marketplace that makes it easy for open-source users to connect and transact with service providers.

She believes that African entrepreneurs have the power to create valuable businesses using technology that compete on a global scale while massively changing the lives of Africans.

Eunice is also an executive with experience ranging from startup funding and management to leading a $10M+ tech startup. She has a track record of leading business organizations to profitable, market-winning positions in hyper-competitive environments.

 

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Razaq Ahmed

African Changemaker

Razaq Ahmed

Razaq is a Nigerian tech entrepreneur and the Founder and CEO of Cowrywise.

The startup provides investment management for Africans and enables access to savings and investment products securely.

Before founding Cowrywise in 2017, Razaq launched Sart Partners, an investment management and financial advisory firm that offered companies strategic, financial and industry expertise.

At Cowrywise, Razaq has led the startup to become one of the leading fintech platforms in Africa. The company is the first to be accepted into the Catalyst Fund program in Nigeria and has previously received support from JP Morgan and UK Aid.

 

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