Fopefoluwa Adelowo
An investment banking associate at Goldman Sachs International where she works on the Emerging Markets Sales team, with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa, she has been with the EM team at Goldman Sachs for the last 3 years where she started out covering Eastern European Financial Institutions before moving to focus on Financial Institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Fope obtained a MEng in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College, London where she served as the Chairman of the Chemical Engineering Society after serving as the Vice Chairman prior to that. She is a sponsor for Educational Opportunities Scholar, which helps under-priviledged kids by connecting them with mentors (sponsors).
Adedayo Osholowu, 27
An International Olympic Committee (IOC)-certified Sports Physician, in 2009 he became a member FIFA Football Medicine Network and was the National Team Physician to Nigerian National Hockey Team (2009 African Hockey Nations Cup). He has been a health columnist with Business Day’s Health Business and Living Section, as well as NEXT newspapers. He was Lead Researcher, Special Olympics Nigeria/Dept. of Public Health Uni. of
Lagos Medical Students Research Program and Reviewer in the British Medical Journal he has been invited to 2010 FIFA Football Medicine Conference, and won this award next year.
Ifeanyi Chukwudi Ajuluchukwu, 29
He is the Relationship Manager and head of the Aviation Unit and Asian Corporates Group of Access Bank Plc. For 7 and half years, Ajuluchukwu has managed the bank’s relationships with clients in the Aviation Industry and with customers of Asian Origin. In 2009, he performed various functions some of which included analysing financial statements of large and mid-size companies in the Aviation Industry and Asia Corporate writing detailed credit appraisals, analysing the risks of lending to each customer, and structuring various forms of credit facilities ranging from Finance leases, Import Finance, to revolving credit facilities for financing Working Capital requirements. In the past year, he has also been part of an Aviation Finance (Euromoney Training – UK).
Ifunanya Obianuju Maduka, 27
Funa Maduka is the Dean of Students of the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls for 3 years. She created a management structure of the division as inaugural Dean of Students at the academy. He has also served as special projects manager to Oprah Winfrey, and has been recognised as a Future Leader by the Nigeria Leadership Initiative, section of the Aspen Global Leadership Network, 2009. She is a former Wall Street financial analyst on the Goldman Sachs trading floor with the firm’s International Sales Desk has worked with Former President Clinton’s HIV/AIDS Initiative in the Caribbean.
Oladipo Fabian Okuribido, 25
He has been working for 2 years as a legal practitioner. In 2009, working with Banwo & Ighodalo (B&I), he worked on legal research, preparation of legal opinions, preparation and review of legal and commercial agreements, conducting due diligence investigations, statutory reviews, legislative drafting, and preparation of reports. He actively co-led several key assignments in the firm and has also made key presentations and was part-time researcher for the Justice Research Institute and the Coalition for Change. He was B&I Best Lawyer – December 2008 and was B&I Next Gani Fawehinmi (Most Radical) – October 2009.
Aneto Okonkwo, 24
In 2009, Okonkwo has led client teams for sales, operations and IT architecture in retail banking, airline, pharmaceutical and education sectors and successfully designed a data system for the California Dept of Education in coordination with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Hewlett Foundation. He also designed a new sales force for a retail bank in Nigeria and saved a failing airline hundreds of thousands of dollars in equipment negotiations. Most remarkably, he was selected from hundreds of applicants to serve on the Obama Presidential Transition Team for Technology Innovation and Government Reform (TIGR). His role on the team was to write implementation plans for the technology policies of the new administration and conduct research for the incoming US Chief Technology Officer and Chief Information Officer, who he worked closely with to draft their final Presidential Briefing Memos and wrote technology proposals on a variety of topics ranging from medical claims processing to immigration reform. Several of his proposals have launched including Data.gov, an initiative to make government data more accessible and transparent to the public, ensuring that his work has impacted policy at the highest levels. He is currently CEO of City Network Yellow Pages Project. a small business based out of Enugu that has provided directory and advertising services to businesses in the Eastern region since 2003. The company has over 5,000 business listings and relationships with hundreds of advertisers. As part of the company, he am leading a new joint venture with MTN (the largest mobile carrier in Africa) to offer Mobile Directory Assistance services nationwide with a pilot project kicking off in Q1 2010.
Ismoila Alli- Balogun, 25
Ismoila is an Investment Banking Mergers and Acquisitions analyst at Renaissance Capital’s first Africa office in Lagos, Nigeria.
Ismoila studied at York College in New York for two years, and then transferred to Baruch College, where he graduated in 2008 with a degree in Economics and African American Studies. At Baruch, he was: Founding President and Chief Executive Officer of the first Africa-focused business club, the Zicklin Africa Business Club; Vice President of the Investment Banking Club; and Senior Staff Writer for the Baruch College Newspaper, The Ticker.
Simidele Olatokunbo Dosekun, 27
As chief operating officer of Kachifo Limited, owners of Farafina Books, for about 2 years, she has managed all aspects of the daily operations of the company and staff of up to 20 – in Accounts, Credit and Stock Control, HR and Adminstrative, Sales, Marketing, IT, Graphics and Editorial departments. As Managing Editor, Dosekun has also managed production of company books and other printed material from text to print stage, including assessing manuscripts, editing, proofreading, and vetting design and layout. She wrote, designed and published the children’s book, ‘Beem Explores Africa’ and was member of ‘Future Leaders’ Class, Nigerian Leadership Initiative, October 2008.
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