Access To Diamonds

CONTRIBUTORS
Oluwatosin
Olaseinde
Joseph
Iruafemi
Aderinsola
Fagbure
Oluwatosin Olaseinde is a chartered accountant with over 9
years of experience spanning across accounting, audit, financial
management and taxation. She is the Founder/CEO of Money
Africa, a platform that enhances financial literacy and wealth
management coaching. Prior to Money Africa, Oluwatosin was
a commercial finance manager at British American Tobacco,
providing commercial & financial advice on capital investment
and managing marketing investment budget in the 14 different
markets across West Africa.
Joseph Iruafemi is enthusiastic about using technology to
improve the efficiency of people and businesses. He sits
well at the intersection of business and technology. He is
comfortable at translating business strategies/ideas into
software products or finding the business in a software
product. He is the founder of Now Showing (www.
nowshowing.com.ng), a digital technology startup focused on
enhancing the experience of moviegoers. He is also founder
of Kobotrack, an application that helps people manage their
money.
Aderinsola Fagbure is a Corporate lawyer with special interest
in corporate governance. She is a Senior Associate in the
Transaction and Business Support Practice of Esher and
Makarios. She is a graduate of Igbinedion University and
has a Master’s Degree in Corporate Law from University
College London. She is a member of the African Society of
Crowdfunding. Her column “in black and white “which is
published in Thisday Law discusses innovations in corporate
governance and finance. Derin is passionate about advising
small businesses with a view to ensuring that they outlive
their founders. An active bar member, she currently serves as
the Chairman of the Young Lawyers’ Forum of the NBA Lagos
Branch.
Lanre
Olusola
Lai
Labode
Tunde
Kehinde
Lanre Olusola, also known as The Catalyst, is recognized as a
premier Life, Mind, Emotions and Behavioral Change Coach
working with individuals and organizations to transition from
where they are, to where they desire and are designed to be.
Connect with The Catalyst on social media @lanreolusola for a
more transformational post focusing on the critical areas of the
human life. Contact: info@olcang.com // 08077077000
Lai Labode is the Founder and Managing Director of CeLD
innovations Limited. Lai is a Principal partner at FisshBone &
LESTR Limited, a technology and business consulting firm. Lai
is a business logic expert with a very extensive knowledge
of the African emerging markets. Lai studied Corporate
Restructuring, Mergers and Acquisitions from Harvard
Business School in Boston, USA , Strategic Innovation from
the prestigious Imperial College , London and holds a degree
in Accounting and diploma in Law from University of Abuja,
Nigeria. He is happily married to the love of his life Ijeoma,
they are blessed with two wonderful boys, Salt & Einstein and
an angel named Rhodium.
Tunde Kehinde is the Co-Founder Lidya (www.lidya.co), the
future of finance for small businesses in frontier markets.
Tunde is a seasoned emerging markets entrepreneur who
Co-Founded, Africa Courier Express, the leading last-mile
eCommerce delivery company in Nigeria and Jumia Nigeria,
the leading eCommerce platform in Nigeria. Tunde has prior
experience as a business development executive with Diageo
in London and as an Investment Banking professional with
Wachovia Securities in North Carolina and New York City. Tunde
holds a degree in Finance with honors from Howard University
and an MBA Harvard Business School.
Mayowa
Owolabi
Eigbe-
Akindele
Edmund
Olotu
Mayowa Owolabi is a serial entrepreneur with a passion for
technology and business development. He is a graduate of
Electronics and Electrical Engineering from the prestigious
Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife and He has over 16 years
experience in technology business development and the
use of ICT in deploying enterprise services and solutions. He
co-founded one of the first e-commerce stores in 2011 – www.
buynownow.com and sold to shoppi.ng in 2013 and exited
his first mobile financial services company – dudupay in 2014.
He is the COO at duduMobile, also one of the co- founders/
conveners of Mobile Monday (www.momonigeria.org) in
Nigeria and is a member of the Nigerian Economic Summit
Group (NESG – www.nesgroup.org)
Ehime Eigbe-Akindele is the Founder and Managing Director
of Sweet Kiwi Frozen Yogurt, Africa’s biggest yogurt company
which recently expanded into the United States. She has a BA
(Honors) from London Metropolitan University in Business
Information Technology and International Relations. She
began her career with Amnesty International then moved to
Citigroup in Dallas, Texas in their legal banking group. Ehime
completed an Entrepreneur Management Program from the
Enterprise Development Centre of Pan-Atlantic University in
Lagos. She has a certification in Brand Design as a strategic
management tool. She is a WIMBIZ (Women in Business and
management) associate, a Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women
awardee and a British Council Alumni Award finalist. She is
a public speaker and has taken part in several motivational
speaking events to inspire youths and women. She founded
the Brand Identity Global company in 2015 and held its first
brand conference in 2015 in collaboration with the Global
Entrepreneurship Network. Ehime is passionate about
branding and brand design.
Edmund Olotu has founded and financed several Technology
companies in Nigeria and the USA. US Companies include
Novira Therapeutics Inc. and Generate4Schools LLC. His
payment application development company, TechAdvance
Ltd. founded in 2009, develops collections, aggregation and
transaction data analytics platforms for multiple industry
verticals. Amongst his other ventures, is SuperGeeks Ltd.- a
personal consumer electronics after-sales service and gadget
insurance company featured on CNN as one of Nigeria’s most
innovative start-ups; Reydious Ltd, an agric technology R&D
company and West Africa Mining Corporation operating
several gold and diamond mining acreage in Sierra Leone
and Liberia. Edmund has a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical
engineering with Business from Manchester University, a
Master’s degree in Science and Technology entrepreneurship
with distinction from Nottingham University Business School
and a Master’s degree in Management Finance and Control
from Harvard University.
Deji
Kurunmi
Endurance
Okafor
Ololade
Akinmurele
Deji Kurunmi has spent the last decade advising business
leaders and helping them solve complex problems. He now
leads the Financial Advisory team of Enzo Krypton and
Company where they help high growth businesses raise the
capital to fund their long term strategy. Deji is a detailed and
diligent negotiator and very creative with deal structuring.
Endurance Okafor is a financial analyst at BusinessDay and
analyst on financial inclusion today- a radio programme that
creates awareness on inclusion for Nigerians.
Ololade Akinmurele is a senior finance analyst at
BusinessDay, West Africa’s most authoritative financial
newspaper. Ololade is a Bloomberg award-winning financial
journalist and a fellow of the Bloomberg Media Initiative
Africa. He is passionate about financial inclusion and has
produced over 200 articles on the subject matter. He joined
BusinessDay in January 2016, after obtaining a Bachelor of
Science degree in Political science from the University of
Lagos.
Mayowa Kuyoro
“Mayowa Kuyoro is an Associate Partner
at McKinsey & Company and
based in the firm’s Nigeria Office.”
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