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Accra, Greater Accra, 000
Ghana

Amma Gyampo

Amma Gyampo is an Entrepreneur and Strategic Advisor to Corporations, Investors and Ventures on topics including Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Impact Investment, Tourism and African Diaspora Business Engagement. a Co-Founder and CEO of ScaleUp Africa, a B2B, women-led, Africa based Entrepreneurship Business Development Services and Capacity Building initiative, serving Corporate, Government and Foundation Leaders that are looking to try new, sustainable models to address the challenges of youth and women's economic empowerment. Amma is also a Founding Member of Lady Angel Network (LAN) and Impact Investing Gh (II-Gh), Ghana's National Advisory Taskforce on Impact. With a background in Law and Strategic Programme Management in the Public and Telecoms Sectors, Amma's innovative ideas and approach to Development stems from her portfolio advisory career, spanning over 16 years, managing global projects for clients including BlackBerry and Vodafone.

Bernard Sokpe

Bernard Sokpe is a seasoned brand consultant with a strong background in brand, digital and marketing communication. He has been instrumental in innovative campaigns for many global brands like Tigo Ghana, Vodafone Ghana/Turkey, Tonaton.com, Unilever, Coca-Cola, and Jameson Whisky. Bernard is the Co-Founder and CEO of Brandmeister Consultancy, a creative agency which addresses the brand needs of businesses in Africa. He is also the Co-Founder of Ripple Influence, Africa’s first A.I powered influencer marketing tech platform. Bernard also serves as anE-commerce consultant for the International Trade Centre, an agency of the UN focused on sustainable trade for SME’s in developing countries.

Chiziterem Uwaga

Chizi Uwaga is an analytical thinker with experience in design engineering, product development, and marketing analytics. He is the Founder of SmartSeal and the Co-Founder of Junity. Chizi hopes to curate an African culture that values merging its tangible art forms with technology - thus creating a new industry of global trade.

Dr. Mohammed Shehu

Mohammed Shehu is a data-driven marketing professional and content strategist who helps simplify and refine brand messaging for high-growth startups. He leads content marketing for a number of social impact startups around the world, and has an interest in venture building. Mo has also been a marketing advisor and strategist for established brands like Gillette, Olay, Always, Pampers, and more!

Eugene Ayisi

Founding Director of Dominion Capital Limited

Eugene Ayisi is a Founding Director of Dominion Capital Limited - a privately-owned commodities trading firm that operates from eight global offices spread across Africa and South East Asia. He's also a strategic advisor to several black-owned businesses based in Africa, has helped raise $80 million dollars in capital, and is an advocate for the Continent's development. Eugene is passionate about business, politics, and fighting inequality.

Ivy Prosper

Ivy Prosper is an experienced Television Host, Reporter, Producer, Public Speaker and published Writer. She is the owner of her own creative media company, Prosper Creative Group, which produces content, consults with clients and supports projects in the creative industries. As an advocate for empowering women and girls, she’s been outspoken on issues regarding self-esteem, positive body image and gender equality. Ivy is a former reporter on the television series, Maternal Health Channel, through which she was inspired to support initiatives that educate the public about the issues related to maternal mortality.

Jacqueline Jones

As the Head of Strategic Partnerships for Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at LinkedIn - Jacqueline Jones creates and executes the team’s partnership strategy to expand economic opportunity in untapped customer segments. This Harvard Business School alumnus and former Fulbright scholar has utilized her business development and strategizing skills in several industries, such as Higher Education, Media/Entertainment, Technology, Advertising, Publishing and Consulting in various roles at Fortune 500 companies including Clear Channel Communications, Cable and & Wireless, Accenture, Prudential and IBM.

Joshua Andrews-Egyir

Joshua Andrews-Egyir is a young global leader, youth activist, and educator working to bridge the gnawing educational inequity in Ghana. His quest to develop leaders for change started from Takuve Basic School, where he diligently served for 2 years as a Fellow with Lead for Ghana, a nationwide movement expanding educational opportunity to all children in the country. As an experienced development practitioner, his impact transcends the classroom walls. In raising ethical leaders from rural schools, Joshua seeks to solve Ghana’s myriad public sector challenges with a bottom-up approach. Currently, Joshua is empowering the future and young Africans to succeed through IYAN (Inspiring Young Achievers Network) Africa.

June Gachui

June Gachui is a lawyer, acclaimed actress, musician, entrepreneur and a radio host at Capital FM Kenya. She is also a highly demanded MC for corporate and non corporate events. June is the Founder and Principal of JGIP Consultants, an intellectual property boutique firm that provides accessible, high-quality IP services to creative entrepreneurs to protect and transform innovative works.

Kym Oliver

Kym Oliver is a Writer, Speaker, Sex, Dating & Disability aficionado dedicated to illuminating her lived experience with a long-term condition and the barriers it presents emotionally, practically, culturally, and inter-personally. Frustrated with the lack of representation and unaddressed discrimination faced by people of color living with disabilities, Kym co-founded Triple Cripples, a platform to increase visibility and highlight the narratives of Women, Femmes, and Non-Binary people of color - “invisible populations, within an invisible population”. Triple Cripples engages and educates through topical videos, spotlight interviews, workshops, talks and lectures, on topics ranging from dating to travel.

Max Rivera

When it comes to product innovation, Max Rivera is fascinated by the intersection of design and technology. He utilizes this passion to help brands find creative ways to tell stories that connect with larger audiences. As Head of EMEA at Snap, Inc. (Snapchat), Max oversees Snapchat's commercial expansion into Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. He's also managed marketing strategies for clients such as Spotify, AMEX, Mercedes-Benz, Atlantic Records, Warner Music Group, and more.

Michael Amey

Michael Amey also known as “Pastor Mike” is the founder and Senior Pastor of Experience Koi Global in Windhoek, Namibia, launched in January 2014. Having had the opportunity to teach around the world, Pastor Mike avails himself to making a lasting difference in people's lives by sharing lessons of God with all generations in funny and relevant ways that echo encounters everywhere, everyday, with everyone. He is an American football fan, loves watching movies and is a “braai master” during his spare time.

Safo Akonnor

Safo Akonnor is an aspiring Commercial Lawyer seeking to shift paradigms with his podcast “The Conversations in the Dark''. With his podcast, he leverages the power of conversation to provide a platform for Africans to talk about their difficult experiences with issues ranging from mental illness to ethnic privilege in African societies. He hopes to use his platform to champion causes that positively affect cultures and improve the livelihood of the African community.

Sally Osafo

Sally Osafo is your round the way regular degular African girl, living in Accra, Ghana, who on any given day loves engaging in deep, thoughtful conversations about existential crises and beyond, with just about anybody. Like every other Ghanaian who understands the growing up hustle, she's just in that limbo - opportunity hunting, eating kelewele, sometimes complaining about everything pertaining to life in Ghana, and sometimes finding a moment to do meaningful, life-altering things. Not one to ascribe to the saying "To the world I may be nobody but to somebody I am the world", Sally believes that all our voices should be heard and included, and in her case, her African voice matters!

Thebe Ikalafeng

Everything about Thebe Ikalafeng is centered around Africa. Having been to every country in Africa, building brands across the continent and summiting the highest free-standing mountain in the world, Mt. Kilimanjaro, he lives and believes in the continent’s possibilities. He is passionately engaged in driving an Africa-focused brand-led agenda that shapes the continent’s image and competitiveness. He is widely acknowledged globally as the pre-eminent authority on brands in Africa and has been recognized by New African Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential Africans. Thebe founded Brand Africa, an inter-generational movement to create a positive image of Africa, celebrate its diversity and drive its ability to compete in global markets. Brand Africa's "Brand Africa 100" initiative is the only pan-African research organization that ranks brands in Africa, to highlight and promote excellence in building brands across the Continent. Brand Africa's other initiative "Africa Brand Leadership Academy (ABLA)" was created to ignite and enable Africa-focused global brand leadership.

Vic Mensa

Vic Mensa is a rapper from Chicago, Illinois. He released his first project, the Straight Up EP at age 16 and was previously a member of the indie group Kids These Days. He also founded Chicago hip hop collective SAVEMONEY with Chance The Rapper. Following the disbandment of Kids These Days, Mensa went solo and released INNANETAPE in 2013. The tape was met with positive reviews as critics praised Mensa’s ability to sing, rap and meld genres. “Down On My Luck” brought Vic Mensa into the global spotlight, earning praise from established fans and new listeners alike. In 2016, Vic released There’s A Lot Going On, his first project for three years. Vic announced during the Beats1 debut of There’s A Lot Going On that his upcoming album would be released before the end of 2016.

Yayra Agbofah

Yayra Agbofah is a creative social entrepreneur based in Ghana. He is the co-founder of AfroDistrict, a creative hub and consultancy founded in 2014, dedicated to tackling social and environmental issues through art, education, and entrepreneurship. He is also the founder of The Revival, a subsidiary of Afro District launched in 2018, that serves as a community led initiative rooted in up-cycling culture - an innovative and engaging way to manage global textile waste in West Africa.