Efosa Ojomo
Efosa is the Global Prosperity Lead at the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation. He is also a member of the admissions board at Harvard Business School. His work focuses on understanding how best to create prosperity in low and middle-income countries. In January 2019, he co-authored The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty. It is the guiding pillar of the African Impact Challenge, and Efosa plays a vital role in advising our team as we execute
Yvonne Okafor
Yvonne is a Senior Analyst at Open Capital in Kenya, where she works with companies at the intersection of finance, impact, and innovation with the goal of advancing sustainable development in Africa. Prior to this she worked as an operations analyst at United Way, as well as an investment analyst & consultant in the venture capital and private equity industry (with spells at Alithea IDF, VU Venture Partners and Score 3 Ventures). Yvonne guides us in our program development & operations. She also mentors our young members from her experiences
Zachariah George
Zach is the co-founder and chief investment officer of Startupbootcamp AfriTech. He is also a venture capital principal at Nedbank, a managing partner at Launch Africa VC and the founder of Cactus advisors. He is a prominent angel investor in 45+ leading tech startups in Africa including Flutterwave, KudaBank, HouseME, Recomed and several others. With his wealth of experience in the African tech startup ecosystem, Zach advises us on our strategy for the African Impact Challenge
Gbemi Akande
Gbemi is a managing partner at Pacer Ventures, a pan-African venture capital firm that backs early stage tech startups with seed capital. He is also a Programs Lead in the DMZ Accelerator, where he supports the growth of scale-up companies and leads the Black Innovation Fellowship. In the past 8 years, he’s worked on corporate innovation and startup ecosystem development across Africa, The Middle East and North America. Gbemi mentors the selected teams taking part in the African Impact Challenge, with their product development and MVP building journey
Bill McConkey
Bill is an Academic Director at the University of Toronto Scarborough’s Innovation Hub (The Bridge). He is also teaches courses in entrepreneurship, product management, and consumer behavior. He sits on the board of many Canadian companies, and worked for IBM in the past. Bill played a pivotal part in our formation, as we were launched through his course at the University of Toronto. He currently mentors the teams taking part in the African Impact Challenge and facilitates the core entrepreneurship trainings.
Sheena Raikundalia
Sheena is the director of the UK-Kenya tech hub; which focuses on developing the Kenyan technology ecosystem by driving digital skills and creating partnerships between start-ups, ecosystem players, investors and corporations. She is also a non-executive director of Inuka Africa. She has over 12 years of experience in the legal, financial services & entrepreneurship sectors in Europe and East Africa. Sheena believes in our vision of driving sustainable development through the youth, and advises us as we execute in Kenya