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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.” Copyright © 2019 The Spark. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or be transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without prior permission of The Spark. We do not endorse any products or services mentioned in any of the articles and are not responsible for the outcome of using such products or services.
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