Founders

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Innocent Ifediaso Chukwuma, OFR

Founder, Chairman & CEO, Innoson Group / Vehicle Manufacturing

Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing

Chief Dr. Innocent Ifediaso Chukwuma, OFR, is the founder of Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing and the entrepreneur behind one of Nigeria's most prominent indigenous manufacturing…

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Dr. Ahmed Idris Nasreddin

Founder, NASCO Group

NASCO Group

Dr. Ahmed Idris Nasreddin was the founder of NASCO Group, the Nigerian manufacturing and consumer-goods group established in Jos in 1963. He founded the…

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Felix Ike

Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Moniepoint Inc.

Moniepoint Inc.

Felix Ike is a Nigerian technology entrepreneur, software engineer and fintech executive who co-founded Moniepoint Inc. in 2015 with Tosin Eniolorunda. Originally established as…

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Tosin Eniolorunda

Co-Founder & Group Chief Executive Officer, Moniepoint Inc.

Moniepoint Inc.

Tosin Eniolorunda is a Nigerian technology entrepreneur and fintech executive who co-founded Moniepoint Inc. in 2015 with Felix Ike. The company, originally established as…

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Okunjimi John Odimayo

Founder and GMD / CEO, Arowolo Group of Companies Limited

Arowolo Group of Companies Limited

Okunjimi John Odimayo is a Nigerian accountant, entrepreneur and business executive who founded Arowolo Group of Companies Limited. He built the group into a…

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Mike Adeniyi Adenuga Jr., GCON

Founder & Chairman, Globacom Limited

Globacom Limited

Mike Adeniyi Adenuga Jr., GCON, is a Nigerian entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist who founded Globacom Limited in 2003. He built Glo into one of…

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Dr. Stella Chinyelu Okoli, OON

Founder & Former Chief Executive Officer, Emzor Pharmaceutical Industries Limited

Emzor Pharmaceutical Industries Limited

Dr. Stella Chinyelu Okoli, OON, was a Nigerian pharmacist, entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded Emzor Pharmaceutical Industries Limited. Her entrepreneurial journey began with the…

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Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede, CFR

Co-Founder & Former Chief Executive Officer, Access Bank Plc

Access Bank Plc

Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede is a Nigerian banker, entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist who co-founded the transformed Access Bank franchise with Herbert Wigwe following their acquisition of…

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Herbert Onyewuchi Wigwe, CFR

Co-Founder & Former Chief Executive Officer, Access Bank Plc

Access Bank Plc

Herbert Onyewuchi Wigwe was a Nigerian banker, entrepreneur and business executive who played a defining role in the transformation and expansion of Access Bank…

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Abdul Samad Rabiu, CFR, CON

Chairman, BUA Foods Plc; Founder and Executive Chairman, BUA Group

BUA Foods Plc

Abdul Samad Rabiu is a Nigerian industrialist, entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded BUA International Limited in 1988, establishing the business that developed into BUA…

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Jeffrey Preston Bezos

Founder and Executive Chairman, Amazon

Amazon.com, Inc.

Jeffrey Preston Bezos is an American entrepreneur, technology executive and investor best known as the founder of Amazon. He founded Amazon in 1994 after…

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William Angus Hofmeyr

Founder and founding chairman, Nasionale Pers (later Naspers)

Naspers

William Angus Hofmeyr was a South African lawyer and businessman who played the central founding role in establishing Nasionale Pers in 1915, the company…

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