Leading Without Limits
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Contributors<br />
Adedoyin<br />
Jaiyesimi<br />
Francesca<br />
Uriri<br />
Oluwatosin<br />
“OloriSuperGal”<br />
Ajibade<br />
is the Head of Communications at Content Craft, a bespoke<br />
content development and brand communications agency. She<br />
has over six years’ experience creating content and developing<br />
and executing social media strategy for brands and individuals.<br />
She has successfully executed projects for the Bill and Melinda<br />
Gates Foundation, the Nigerian Economic Summit Group<br />
(NESG), the W Community, Women in Business, Management<br />
and Public Service (WIMBIZ), <strong>Leading</strong> Ladies Africa, African<br />
Philanthropy Forum amongst others.<br />
is the Head of Communications for West Africa at Uber.<br />
She is also the Founder of <strong>Leading</strong> Ladies Africa; a women<br />
empowerment non-profit that celebrates the lives of African<br />
women, and promotes leadership, diversity and gender<br />
inclusion. She is a Public Relations and Communications<br />
expert with 11+ years’ experience spanning corporate relations,<br />
corporate reputation management, event architecture, media<br />
management and content development.<br />
is the Founder of leading lifestyle and entertainment website,<br />
OloriSuperGal.com. One of the early adopters in the Nigerian<br />
social media space, she has also founded Media Exposure,<br />
a digital marketing arm of Olori SuperGal Limited. Through<br />
the OSG brand, Tosin recently championed the New Media<br />
Conference (NMC), an annual gathering of key stakeholders<br />
with the aim of improving marketing and advertising<br />
standards in the Nigerian online/digital media space.<br />
Arit<br />
Okpo<br />
Kemi<br />
Okusanya<br />
Tolulope<br />
Omoleye-<br />
Osindero<br />
is a Media Entrepreneur who currently focuses on<br />
Documentary Filmmaking, Voice-Overs, TV Presenting and<br />
Event Moderating. She has produced and presented content<br />
for the EbonyLife TV platform and is the current voice of<br />
CNN’s African Voices as well as season host for web talk<br />
show Untold Facts. She also served as the Channel’s Senior<br />
Correspondent to the Nigerian Presidential Villa. Arit worked<br />
with the CNN team on Richard Quest’s visit to Nigeria for<br />
Quest Business Traveller. Follow her on @menoword on both<br />
Twitter and Instagram.<br />
is the Vice President, VISA West Africa. With an MBA from<br />
Warwick Business School UK, Kemi has and has over 18<br />
years of experience in Global Payments, Money Transfer<br />
and Banking. Prior to joining Visa, Kemi worked as Head of<br />
Anglophone Africa for MoneyGram.<br />
is a Senior Associate at Udo Udoma and Belo-Osagie’s<br />
Banking and Finance team with a focus on fintech, corporate<br />
finance, syndicated lending, secured transactions, trade<br />
finance, structured finance and project finance. She is also<br />
a member of the Finance and Financial Markets Policy<br />
Commission of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group.<br />
Bidemi<br />
Zakariyau<br />
Misan<br />
Rewane<br />
Tomi<br />
Otudeko<br />
is the Founder & CEO of LSF|PR, a full service public relations<br />
agency with core competencies in corporate communications,<br />
consumer and lifestyle brands. The agency’s clients include<br />
some of the best global and local brands including Philips,<br />
Branch, Baker Hughes (a GE Company), TREXM Oil and<br />
Gas Services, Reckitt-Benckiser, Remy-Cointreau and many<br />
more. LSF|PR is a recipient of a certificate of excellence by<br />
the SABRE Awards (2018). Bidemi has been listed by Forbes<br />
Africa as one of the innovators and game-changers in business<br />
on the prestigious 30 Under 30 list (2018) amongst other<br />
awards and recognitions.<br />
is co-founder and CEO of WAVE. After graduating from<br />
Stanford University, she worked with The Monitor Group,<br />
TechnoServe, and the Centre for Public Policy Alternatives. As<br />
an MBA candidate at Harvard Business School, she partnered<br />
with fellow West Africans who were passionate about tackling<br />
youth unemployment and launched WAVE in 2013. WAVE<br />
tackles youth unemployment by identifying motivated but<br />
underserved West African youth, training them on crucial<br />
employability skills, and connecting them to entry-level job<br />
opportunities.<br />
is the Head, Innovation and Sustainability of the Honeywell<br />
Group Limited and Director of Itanna, Honeywell Group’s<br />
venture capital platform. She is a graduate of Kings College,<br />
London with a Bachelor’s Degree in Law, holds a Master’s<br />
Degree in Economics and is an Alumna of Stanford University<br />
Graduate School of Business. Tomi has deep roots and a<br />
career network that spans across notable brands such as IBM,<br />
Stanbic IBTC and First Bank Nigeria.<br />
Folashade<br />
Ambrose-<br />
Medebem<br />
Nkem<br />
Okocha<br />
Tosin<br />
Faniro-Dada<br />
is currently the Director of Communications, Public Affairs<br />
& Sustainable Development for Lafarge Africa PLC. She<br />
has also worked with multinationals, such as, Diageo Plc.,<br />
PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Ford Motor Company – UK &<br />
Germany, Zurich Financial Services, Learning & Skills Council<br />
UK, Nigeria Ministry of Finance and the Department for<br />
International Development (DFID) UK. Fola is an alumnus of<br />
Said Business School, Oxford, holds a Bachelor’s Degree in<br />
Accounting and a Masters of Business Administration (MBA).<br />
She is also a certified Financial Management professional with<br />
the Chartered Insurance Institute (Cii) in the UK amongst a<br />
plethora of other professional qualifications.<br />
is the founder of Mamamoni, a Fintech Social Enterprise that<br />
empowers rural and urban slum women with vocational/<br />
Financial skills and Mobile Loans. Since 2013, she has impacted<br />
and empowered over 6000 poor women in several rural<br />
communities in Nigeria. She is a member of Lagos Innovates<br />
Advisory Council. She is a Tony Elumelu Foundation Alumna,<br />
A Mandela Washington Fellow, and LEAP Africa Outstanding<br />
Social Innovator. She has won many awards for her work with<br />
women in Nigeria.<br />
currently Head of Start-Ups at Lagos State Employment Trust<br />
Fund (LSETF). She joined LSETF as the Head of Strategy &<br />
Partnerships in 2016. Prior to working at LSETF, Tosin worked<br />
in the Corporate Banking Division at Skye Bank (now Polaris<br />
Bank), and also as a Financial Analyst at ARM. Tosin spent<br />
three years in PricewaterhouseCoopers in Boston auditing<br />
mutual and private equity funds.<br />
Ukwuori-<br />
Gisela Kalu<br />
Yadichinma<br />
Ukoha-Kalu<br />
is a Clinical Psychologist who obtained a Bachelor (BSc Hons) in Psychology, a Masters (MSc) in<br />
Neuropsychology and a Doctorate (DClinPsy) in Clinical Psychology from the Institute of Psychiatry.<br />
She has worked clinically and in research in a variety of countries, including Germany, the United<br />
Kingdom, the United States of America, Mexico, Argentina, and Tanzania. She also consults for<br />
several Nigerian hospital, as well as national and international NGOs. She is a registered member of<br />
the United Kingdom Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).<br />
was born in Nigeria in 1995 and studies lines and forms to question the world and navigate the<br />
experience of discovery. An experimental artist, her varied mediums include digital media, film,<br />
painting, photography and sculpture. Her work is in constant evolution as she is inspired by the<br />
theme of change.<br />
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