Freddy Vega
Freddy Vega is Co-Founder and CEO of Platzi, a fast-growing e-learning platform with an impressive 70% completion rate by students who take the company’s courses. In 2019, Platzi launched 1,000 scholarships in collaboration with Facebook for Brazilian, Colombian and Mexican […]
Catherine Von Burg
Catherine Von Burg is a Founder, CEO and President of SimpliPhi Power, a technology company that designs and manufactures non-toxic, efficient, and enduring energy storage and management systems that seamlessly integrate solar, wind, generator, or any other power generation source […]
Ashish Gadnis
Ashish Gadnis is the Co-Founder and CEO of BanQu, which was recently named to the TIME Magazine 2019 Innovations List. BanQu is the first ever blockchain-based Supply Chain & Economic Passport platform that enables transparency, traceability and sustainability for farmers […]
Jane Nakasamu
Jane Nakasamu is an energy efficiency consultant, multi-award-winning cleantech innovator, and renewable energy advocate. She co-founded Greenbelt Energy, a fast-growing renewable energy start-up addressing the challenges of charcoal-led deforestation and energy poverty in Zambia. She received multiple awards for her innovation, […]
James Mwangi
James Mwangi is CEO and Group Managing Director at Equity Group Holdings – a financial services holding company based in the African Great Lakes region. They focus on financial and social inclusion for all those at the bottom of the […]
Asonele Kotu
Asonele Rachel Kotu has more than 10 years of experience as a public relations and marketing professional. She has worked with various organisations in community development, charity fund-raising, a software development company in the technology space. She is the Founder of FemConnect, a […]
Marie-Claire Kuja
Marie-Claire is the Founder and CEO of KujaEcoPads, an innovation that uses banana stem agro waste and technology to manufacture and distribute Cameroon’s first 100% biodegradable and compostable sanitary pads made from highly absorbent banana fiber. She is a women […]
Manu Chopra
Manu is working on tackling extreme poverty by providing dignified digital work to rural Indians. He’s currently the Co-Founder and CEO of Karya, a transformative AI collective that is enabling dignified livelihoods. In the last three years, his work has […]
Teresa Njoroge
Teresa Njoroge is the Founder & CEO of Clean Start Africa. She founded it after being wrongly imprisoned with her then 3 month old daughter. Her firsthand experience and the plight of women in prison together with their children inspired […]
Sunday Silungwe
Sunday Silungwe is the Co-Founder & Director of Communication at Good Nature Agro, a social enterprise that works with Africa’s small-scale farmers to move them from poverty and into the middle-class. The ‘Good Nature Seeds’ brand, is a new premium […]