Leading Without Limits

Contributors
Adedoyin
Jaiyesimi
Francesca
Uriri
Oluwatosin
“OloriSuperGal”
Ajibade
is the Head of Communications at Content Craft, a bespoke
content development and brand communications agency. She
has over six years’ experience creating content and developing
and executing social media strategy for brands and individuals.
She has successfully executed projects for the Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation, the Nigerian Economic Summit Group
(NESG), the W Community, Women in Business, Management
and Public Service (WIMBIZ), Leading Ladies Africa, African
Philanthropy Forum amongst others.
is the Head of Communications for West Africa at Uber.
She is also the Founder of Leading Ladies Africa; a women
empowerment non-profit that celebrates the lives of African
women, and promotes leadership, diversity and gender
inclusion. She is a Public Relations and Communications
expert with 11+ years’ experience spanning corporate relations,
corporate reputation management, event architecture, media
management and content development.
is the Founder of leading lifestyle and entertainment website,
OloriSuperGal.com. One of the early adopters in the Nigerian
social media space, she has also founded Media Exposure,
a digital marketing arm of Olori SuperGal Limited. Through
the OSG brand, Tosin recently championed the New Media
Conference (NMC), an annual gathering of key stakeholders
with the aim of improving marketing and advertising
standards in the Nigerian online/digital media space.
Arit
Okpo
Kemi
Okusanya
Tolulope
Omoleye-
Osindero
is a Media Entrepreneur who currently focuses on
Documentary Filmmaking, Voice-Overs, TV Presenting and
Event Moderating. She has produced and presented content
for the EbonyLife TV platform and is the current voice of
CNN’s African Voices as well as season host for web talk
show Untold Facts. She also served as the Channel’s Senior
Correspondent to the Nigerian Presidential Villa. Arit worked
with the CNN team on Richard Quest’s visit to Nigeria for
Quest Business Traveller. Follow her on @menoword on both
Twitter and Instagram.
is the Vice President, VISA West Africa. With an MBA from
Warwick Business School UK, Kemi has and has over 18
years of experience in Global Payments, Money Transfer
and Banking. Prior to joining Visa, Kemi worked as Head of
Anglophone Africa for MoneyGram.
is a Senior Associate at Udo Udoma and Belo-Osagie’s
Banking and Finance team with a focus on fintech, corporate
finance, syndicated lending, secured transactions, trade
finance, structured finance and project finance. She is also
a member of the Finance and Financial Markets Policy
Commission of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group.
Bidemi
Zakariyau
Misan
Rewane
Tomi
Otudeko
is the Founder & CEO of LSF|PR, a full service public relations
agency with core competencies in corporate communications,
consumer and lifestyle brands. The agency’s clients include
some of the best global and local brands including Philips,
Branch, Baker Hughes (a GE Company), TREXM Oil and
Gas Services, Reckitt-Benckiser, Remy-Cointreau and many
more. LSF|PR is a recipient of a certificate of excellence by
the SABRE Awards (2018). Bidemi has been listed by Forbes
Africa as one of the innovators and game-changers in business
on the prestigious 30 Under 30 list (2018) amongst other
awards and recognitions.
is co-founder and CEO of WAVE. After graduating from
Stanford University, she worked with The Monitor Group,
TechnoServe, and the Centre for Public Policy Alternatives. As
an MBA candidate at Harvard Business School, she partnered
with fellow West Africans who were passionate about tackling
youth unemployment and launched WAVE in 2013. WAVE
tackles youth unemployment by identifying motivated but
underserved West African youth, training them on crucial
employability skills, and connecting them to entry-level job
opportunities.
is the Head, Innovation and Sustainability of the Honeywell
Group Limited and Director of Itanna, Honeywell Group’s
venture capital platform. She is a graduate of Kings College,
London with a Bachelor’s Degree in Law, holds a Master’s
Degree in Economics and is an Alumna of Stanford University
Graduate School of Business. Tomi has deep roots and a
career network that spans across notable brands such as IBM,
Stanbic IBTC and First Bank Nigeria.
Folashade
Ambrose-
Medebem
Nkem
Okocha
Tosin
Faniro-Dada
is currently the Director of Communications, Public Affairs
& Sustainable Development for Lafarge Africa PLC. She
has also worked with multinationals, such as, Diageo Plc.,
PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Ford Motor Company – UK &
Germany, Zurich Financial Services, Learning & Skills Council
UK, Nigeria Ministry of Finance and the Department for
International Development (DFID) UK. Fola is an alumnus of
Said Business School, Oxford, holds a Bachelor’s Degree in
Accounting and a Masters of Business Administration (MBA).
She is also a certified Financial Management professional with
the Chartered Insurance Institute (Cii) in the UK amongst a
plethora of other professional qualifications.
is the founder of Mamamoni, a Fintech Social Enterprise that
empowers rural and urban slum women with vocational/
Financial skills and Mobile Loans. Since 2013, she has impacted
and empowered over 6000 poor women in several rural
communities in Nigeria. She is a member of Lagos Innovates
Advisory Council. She is a Tony Elumelu Foundation Alumna,
A Mandela Washington Fellow, and LEAP Africa Outstanding
Social Innovator. She has won many awards for her work with
women in Nigeria.
currently Head of Start-Ups at Lagos State Employment Trust
Fund (LSETF). She joined LSETF as the Head of Strategy &
Partnerships in 2016. Prior to working at LSETF, Tosin worked
in the Corporate Banking Division at Skye Bank (now Polaris
Bank), and also as a Financial Analyst at ARM. Tosin spent
three years in PricewaterhouseCoopers in Boston auditing
mutual and private equity funds.
Ukwuori-
Gisela Kalu
Yadichinma
Ukoha-Kalu
is a Clinical Psychologist who obtained a Bachelor (BSc Hons) in Psychology, a Masters (MSc) in
Neuropsychology and a Doctorate (DClinPsy) in Clinical Psychology from the Institute of Psychiatry.
She has worked clinically and in research in a variety of countries, including Germany, the United
Kingdom, the United States of America, Mexico, Argentina, and Tanzania. She also consults for
several Nigerian hospital, as well as national and international NGOs. She is a registered member of
the United Kingdom Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
was born in Nigeria in 1995 and studies lines and forms to question the world and navigate the
experience of discovery. An experimental artist, her varied mediums include digital media, film,
painting, photography and sculpture. Her work is in constant evolution as she is inspired by the
theme of change.
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