Experience

Sub Saharan Open University

• E-learning
• 1 - 100 Employee

• President and Founder

  • Nov 2019 - Present

  Sub Saharan Open University is an African institution that offers disruptive learning in entrepreneurship, agropreneurship, innovations, and exponential technologies for business incubation and acceleration. Sub Saharan Open University is an African institution that offers disruptive learning in entrepreneurship, agropreneurship, innovations, and exponential technologies for business incubation and acceleration.



The Frontrunners League

• United States
• International Trade and Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Member, Advisory Board

  • Oct 2019 - Present

  The Frontrunners League of Social Impact Innovation is a platform where the most talented disruptors in the social impact innovation space come together to collaborate on projects, secure funding, share resources, instigate impactful thoughts and actions. This League is possible because of a close partnership with the global consortium, Living Learning Working, Inc. who sources the League for projects and contracts they own.Co-Founder, World Hope Youth MentorsDates Employed Aug 2019 – PresentEmployment Duration 5 mosLocation GlobalWorld Hope Youth Mentors (WHY-Mentors) is a global mentoring program developed in answer to a need discovered within youth career and entrepreneurship programs in disadvantaged areas of the world. The pilot launched officially in the fall of 2019 with 23 mentees from five countries matched with mentors from seven countries. All but one program leader was included as a mentee. The program was endorsed by several academic leaders and a traditional prime minister from Nigeria and a World Humanities Commission Ambassador. The program is partnership between the Sub Saharan Open University, International Center for Development Affairs (Implementing Agency for the Central Bank of Nigeria's Entrepreneurship Development Center in Nigeria), Living Learning and Working, Inc., The PlatForum, and The Gooddler Foundation.



Living Learning Working

• United States
• Non-profit Organization Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director and Consortium Member

  • Oct 2019 - Present

  Living, Learning, and Working (LLW) is a global consortium of leaders and innovators who are breaking grounds in healthcare, fintech, energy, innovative technologies and more. The consortium provides broad-stroke sustainable solutions to large-scale concerns, like veterans homelessness, workforce preparedness, available healthcare, and more. The Sub Saharan Open University/Consortium partnership brings development and growth opportunities to the African continent. Living, Learning, and Working (LLW) is a global consortium of leaders and innovators who are breaking grounds in healthcare, fintech, energy, innovative technologies and more. The consortium provides broad-stroke sustainable solutions to large-scale concerns, like veterans homelessness, workforce preparedness, available healthcare, and more. The Sub Saharan Open University/Consortium partnership brings development and growth opportunities to the African continent.



Shine Bridge Global, Inc.

• United States
• Food and Beverage Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director - Africa

  • Jul 2018 - Present

• Director - Africa

  • Jul 2018 - Present

  Shine Bridge Global (SBG) is a minority owned agribusiness and food company based in Chesapeake, Virginia, United States, working with smallholder farmers in Africa to deliver safe quality foods to a growing clientele in North America and other parts of the world. We are creating export earning opportunities for small and medium enterprise agribusinesses, including processors, in Africa to supply high quality tapioca flours and starches for the manufacturing of cassava snacks in the United States!



Central Bank of Nigeria

• Nigeria
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Dean-in-Residence

  • Sep 2014 - Present

  CBN-VEDC is a STEM-centric entrepreneurship development program, following the historical education-for-work model. It focuses on providing trainees with the skills and knowledge needed to successfully transit to enterprise ownership. CBN-VEDC is a broad and complex program, spanning myriads of skills levels, a plethora of subject areas, and a diversity of educational contents. The program emphasizes the prepping of trainees to become self-employed and employers of labor upon graduation. For the first time in the Nigeria there’s a program providing Nigerians, a platform and the opportunity for decisions regarding vocational career and technical education programming to the trainee with the options to become creators of employment and generators of wealth. The Central Bank of Nigeria - Vocational and Entrepreneurship Development Center is implemented by the International Center for Development Affairs (ICDA).Founder/CEOInternational Center for Development Affairs (ICDA)June 1995 - till date (25 years)The International Center for Development Affairs (ICDA) is one of Nigeria’s leading social enterprises established in 1995. Focused on Africa, ICDA’s winning strategy is to deliver work as social business streams, applying commercial strategies to maximize improvements in human and environmental well-being, rather than maximizing profits. As a social enterprise, ICDA is committed to the objectives of the individual streams because the Center’s motivation is that the deeper our binder streams, the more economic value we ultimately deliver. In ICDA we differ from everyday organizations because inversely, the Center does not offer any benefit to investors unless that ultimately furthers our capacity to realize our plethora of social goals.