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Yvonne Obike is an accomplished professional with over 10 years of experience in various sectors, including the financial sector, specifically in business operations, strategic partnerships, and educational leadership. Her profile highlights her expertise and achievements, showcasing her ability to drive impactful initiatives and deliver exceptional results.

In her previous role as Co-founder, Chief Operating Officer at Payday, a prominent cross border payment platform, Yvonne built processes and provided quality leadership & guidance to cross-functional teams, overseeing global business operations and processes.

Her extensive experience in operations management and financial planning enabled her to collaborate effectively with the executive team and board members, driving improvements in overall business outcomes.

Yvonne actively worked with other c-suite execs to develop and execute financial/business strategies, aiming for higher profitability, optimised cash flow, and robust reporting and control systems.

Temitope creates Marketing, Growth, Sales, CX Strategies to scale up and grow Technology companies. He is an experienced entrepreneur with 10 years background across Technology, Consulting, Advertisement, Marketing, Agency, VAS/Telecommunication , Social Impact and Print Production helping business define their channels to grow.He enjoys reading about and executing on a lot of Projects and runs a Consultancy Startup focused on SMB to help them scale.

He's passionate about the technology ecosystem and Design.

As a seasoned entrepreneur and product leader with 10+ years of total experience, Chris has dedicated his career to founding and leading innovative, mission-driven product teams. His expertise in product management covers the full spectrum, from ideation to launch, support, and scaling. With a strong focus on data-informed decision-making, he has a proven track record of successfully executing controlled experiments and creating MVPs to test market fit, while continuously measuring and accelerating growth through relevant metrics. His extensive experience managing cross-functional teams allows him to lead and supervise teams of industry specialists effectively and has honed his ability to spearhead successful, market-fit products that offer meaningful solutions to millions of customers globally.

Gerald Okonkwo, popularly called Gerald Black, started his journey as an entrepreneur at a young age — 11 years ago. Running a business as an undergraduate isn’t easy, but Gerald is driven by a passion for problem-solving that he can’t resist. He admits it’s an obsession he can’t seem to avoid.

By 2022, he had successfully launched two startups that began as solutions to his own problems but quickly grew into full-fledged businesses: iFixng, a marketplace for artisans, and Parkit, an on-demand vehicle care service platform. In 2021, Parkit was acquired by Fixit45, a spin-off of Cars45.

Charles Dairo is the Co-founder & CEO of Beezop, he has 12-years experience comprising tech entrepreneurship, business management, website design, digital strategy and product management. He's passionate about the intersection of innovation, design and product strategy.

Blessing Abeng is a branding and communications expert dedicated to helping brands identify and communicate their unique identity and tell better stories. She builds brand and communication strategies around tech products, services, growth, and sales to help brands communicate with their team, target audience, partners, and investors.

She has worked with brands across industries in unique capacities, nationally and globally, including Seedstars, Facebook, Taeillo, Diageo, Heritage Bank, African Alliance, Dark and Lovely (Nigeria and Africa), Bolt, Alomo Bitters, GSK, Lights Camera Africa, Lemi Ghariokwu, Victor Ehikhamenor, Angels and Muse, QuickCheck and so many others.

She is also the Co-founder and Director of Communications at Ingressive for Good where she drives the mission of the non profit to create and increase the earning power of one million African youth through tech training and resources for the growth of the African startup ecosystems.

She was the CMO & Cofounder of Disha, a digital technology company acquired by an African Unicorn (Flutterwave) in 2021.

Blessing’s skills and clear vision make her a valuable ecosystem leader and this has led her to wear hats that are value-driven in nature. She has also mentored youths in communities like She Leads Africa, Seedstars, African Entrepreneurship Awards, amongst others. She has received recognition by YNaija as one of the 100 most powerful youths in Nigeria. She was also recognised as a nominee for United Nation’s Most Influential Person of African Descent in the Creative sector and 40 under 40 category.

She has trained over 5000 creators in branding, communications, marketing and business. She currently curates and nurtures a growing community of over 40,000 individuals inspired by her strides and interested in learning more about branding, communications and business growth.

When she's not working, she is creating content or writing columns for top sites like BusinessDay, Connect Nigeria and many more.