Visionaries

Samata Pattinson is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Suzy Amis Cameron’s Red Carpet Green Dress (RCGD), a sustainable fashion and apparel brand. In her journey, the self-taught fashion entrepreneur has more than 15 years of experience. The British-born Ghanaian award-winning designer also doubles as a writer, broadcaster, and entrepreneur.…

Ophelia Crossland is a Ghanaian fashion entrepreneur front lining the industry in her country and Africa. She developed her passion for the sector from her grandmother, who doubled as a fashion designer and a former Miss Ghana and her mother, who was a fabric seller. Learning from her, she sewed…

Fikirte Addis, a psychologist turned fashion enthusiast, founded Yefiker Design in 2009 by integrating Ethiopian cultural trends into her fashion design. Her style of creating aesthetically blended and harmonised modern and cultural styles brought her to the limelight in 2010. The intricate way her designs were made during the USAID…

Success comes with a lot of grit, resilience, and hard work despite the environment one finds themselves. Some of the most successful entrepreneurs in South Africa are those who came from nothing. Working at the forefront of their fields gave them the perseverance to alter their narrative. They not only…

Having goals, working hard, and exercising perseverance have served Tauriq Keraan well throughout his life. And they have been guiding principles in how he manages money, family and people. In August 2019, TymeBank announced the appointment of Tauriq Keraan as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) after the resignation of…

Drew Durbin is the co-founder and CEO of Wave, a digital mobile money platform helping Africa build extremely affordable financial infrastructure. The company prides itself on being Africa’s biggest startup-diaspora community. The Senegalese-born Durbin started Wave in 2018 with Lincoln Quirk, his American schoolmate. The pair met at Brown University,…

Onyekachi Izukanne, a seasoned entrepreneur with 17 years of experience in technology and consulting, is the Co-founder and CEO of TradeDepot, a B2B marketplace that connects small retailers with wholesalers of Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG). Onyekachi spent 11 years in management consulting, specialising in consumer products, energy and financial services. …

All over the world, Nigerian professionals are making their mark at the top cadre of their different careers by expanding the frontiers of knowledge and stretching the limits of innovativeness.  Be it in academics, science, sports, finance or even medicine; their exploits have brought glory and honour to the fatherland…

Jorn Lyseggan is a serial entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist, and founder of Meltwater as well as the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology, popularly referred to as MEST. Jorn started off his career as a research scientist in artificial intelligence and machine learning at the Norwegian Computing Centre, but decided to leave…

His name may not ring a bell in certain quarters, but Dare Okoudjou is well known in the e-Payment world as a revolutionary. He is the founder and CEO of MFS Africa, a leading Pan-African fintech company operating the largest digital payments hub on the continent. How MFS Africa started…