Biography of Sola Adesakin

Sola Smart-Steward Adesakin, as she is popularly known as, is an Accountant, Author and Wealth Coach at Smart Steward, a community of financially

Sola Adesakin is happily married to her heartthrob, Mr. Adesakin

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She is the Founder/Lead Coach at Smart Stewards

Sola Adesakin further studied  for an M.B.A at Edinburgh Business School

Studied Applied Accounting at Oxford Brookes University

Went to Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria

Studied at Assoc. of Chartered Certified Accountants

Lives in Lagos, Nigeria

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Biography of Strive Masiyiwa

Strive Masiyiwa is a Zimbabwean billionaire who is based in London. He is a business man and philanthropist. He was born into a Christian family in Zimbabwe formerly known as Southern Rhodesia on the 29th of January, 1961. His primary education was obtained in Kitwe, a city in North Central Zambia and his secondary education in Edinburgh, Scotland. He earned a bachelor degree in electrical engineering in 1983 from the University of Wales. He is married to Tsitsi Masiyiwa and they have six children together.

Strive Masiyiwa is the founder and executive chairman of the international conglomerate technology group, Econet Global which is popularly known as Econet. He founded Econet as a privately owned company in 1993 and it was initially known as Enhanced Communications Network. Econet Global comprises of Cassava technologies and Econet wireless. Its operations and investments are carried out in Africa, Europe, South America and the East Asia Pacific Rim. Among the services and products offered at Econet are broadband, optical fiber networks , mobile and fixed telephone services , satellite and mobile payment. Its headquarters is located in Johannessburg, South Africa. Before he went on to initiate the establishment of Econet, he worked for a short period in the computer industry in Cambridge, England then moved on to work at ZPTC in Zimbabwe.

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He co-founded the Higherlife Foundation with his wife, Tsitsi Masiyiwa. The foundation was established to support orphans and poor children of the rural areas of Zimbabwe, South Africa, Burundi and Lesotho.

Strive Masiyiwa is a member of board of quite a number of companies and institutions such as Unilever, Netflix, The Asia Society and so on. He is a trustee at the Bill& Melinda Gates Foundation, National Graphic Society and Bank of America. He is also a co founder of Generation Africa, The Africa’s Union Ebola Fund and a co chair at the Pathways for Prosperity Commission on Technology and Inclusive Development. He is a commissioner at the UN commission on Adaptation and the only African Member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Committee on Conscience.

 

Strive Masiyiwa has been globally recognized by several institutions across the years, some of  them include:

• Forbes Magazine(2015), where he was named as one of the 10 most powerful men in Africa
• Bloomberg (2020), where he was named as one of the 50 world’s most influential people 
• New African Magazine (2020), where he was named as one of the 100 most influential Africans
• Fortune Magazine (2021), where he was named as one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders.
  

With a net worth of 1.087 billion euros, Strive Masiyiwa became the first black billionaire to enter the Sunday Times Rich List in 2021.

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Biography of Vusi Thembekwayo

Vusi Thembekwayo is a Global Speaker, Venture Investor, Award Winning Entrepreneur and Best selling author

Vusi Thembekwayo' s name has become synonymous with being a business maverick, inimitable and with a personal brand that is solidly grounded in accomplishments. As a source of business wisdom, Vusi is the go- to-guy for executives and entrepreneurs globally.

His charismatic social media engagement often mirrors that of a rockstar, with over 1million of followers on Facebook. Vusi is among the top 10 most followed Africans on LinkedIn, with more than 800 000 followers and more than 500 000 followers on Twitter.

A best-selling author, Vusi's books have sold more than 500,000 copies worldwide.

Vusi is a global business authority and disruptor. A hard-working, committed venture capitalist and serial entrepreneur, by the age of 25 he ran a R400m division of a R17bn multinational and today is widely regarded as one of the most disruptive forces in venture capital.

Vusi is a lover of God, and this is evident in his speeches

He is the founder and CEO of the MyGrowth Fund Venture Partners, co- founder & CEO of VUKA Capital and VUKA Fund Managers as well as Capital Raise lead of Afrika Fintech Fund.

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Vusi is passionate about early stage venture investments with a focus on impact investment driving financial inclusion & access to healthcare and education using technology across the develooping world. Leading by example, his team forces medium, large and listed businesses into much-needed, often painful, always lucrative new directions.

As CEO of VUKA Capital - a R1.5Bn Southern African growth stage equity and mezzanine investment fund, Vusi is also General Partner of Watermark Afrika Capital based at the DIFC and the chairman of investment holding group, the Thembekwayo Legacy Group. In addition, he is an investor and shareholder in numerous entities, serving on several boards.

Vusi did his time in corporate. He endured

Vusi did his time in corporate. He endured similar 'scars of business war' as his clients during his career and life journey. These 'scars' make him highly relatable and contribute to his raw, honest, straightforward delivery of content – be it as business mogul, keynote speaker, author, coach or mentor.

Vusi is an authentic, relevant, fun and extremely likeable person. His personal journey of hardships and financial challenges at a young age, taught him that success is only achieved through hard work, dedication, and obsession.

A philanthropist in his own right, Vusi pays it forward in creating opportunities for deserving, hard-working young people through his Leadership Foundation which focuses on education programs for under- priviledged youth across Sub-Saharan Africa. The foundation is funded in part by the proceeds of VUKA Capital & the family investment holdings Thembekwayo Legacy Group.

.. The VUKA Leadership Foundation is a not-for-profit foundation that works with in community partners to identify, educate and upskill the next generation of leaders across communities in Africa. The foundation aims to develpop 1000 high impact leaders by 2030. Its mission is to shape the future of Africa by capacitating the leaders who will create it.

Books by Vusi Thembekwayo

As established author, Vusi has authored

• The Magna Carta of Exponentiality
  
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Vusi is also a closet patron of the arts deliberately shying away from making his endowments known.

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