ASB Speakers - Africa Speakers Bureau

Co-Founder, FUBU & CEO, The Shark Group

Daymond John

An entrepreneur in every sense of the word, Daymond John has come a long way from taking out a $100,000 mortgage on his mother’s house and moving his business operation into its basement. He is the CEO and Founder of FUBU, a much-celebrated global lifestyle brand with over $6 billion in product sales world-wide. President Barack Obama appointed him a Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship (PAGE).

Entrepreneur & Global Business Speaker

Vusi Thembekwayo

Vusi Thembekwayo is a Global Business Speaker, private equity Managing Partner at Watermark Afrika, CEO of pan-African impact investment firm MyGrowthFund Venture Capital & convenor of leading research boutique IC Knowledge Bureau.

Snr. VP, CCRO, STIFEL FINANCIAL CORP.

Benjamin Akande

A renowned economist and leadership mentor, is a Senior Vice President, Chief Corporate Responsibility Officer at Stifel Financial Corporation NYSE: SF, a 130-year-old financial service holding company headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri with $4.7 billion in revenue, $8 billion in market capitalization.

EX CEO, KENYA SCHOOL OF LAW

PLO Lumumba

An Advocate of the High Courts of Kenya and Tanganyika. Prof PLO Lumumba is the Founder of the PLO Lumumba Foundation. He is an Honorary Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences. He is an ex CEO of the Kenya School of Law. PLO Lumumba has been twice recognized as one of the 100 most influential Africans.

AWARD WINNING MEDIA PRO

Idah Waringa

With expertise and passion for new media and journalism, current affairs, sport and motivation; Idah has interviewed some of the world’s iconic sports stars including Ronaldinho and Thierry Henry amongst many others. She covers, moderates, speaks and emcees at int’l, headline events and ceremonies.

CEO, ThinkBusiness Africa

Ogho Okiti

Dr Ogho Okiti is an economist and a business strategy and policy thinker. He speaks largely on economics, business, communications, public policy, markets, etc. His daily newsletter, ThinkBusiness, helps business leaders and policymakers gain useful insights on emerging business and development dynamics in Nigeria, Africa and beyond.

Consultant - leadership, higher education, public Health

Max Price

Dr Max Price was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town for ten years from July 2008 to June 2018. From 1996 to 2006, he was dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is currently a Non-Resident Fellow of The Centre for Global Development.

Techpreneur

Shadrack Kubyane

Shadrack, a certified co-pilot, is a co-founder of Coronet Blockchain, South Africa. He previously had a stint at Deloitte, South Africa, before turning full time entrepreneur. At Coronet Blockchain, he leads a team committed to leveraging blockchain to drive Africa’s supply chain and create hitherto unimaginable wealth across beauty, fashion and agriculture sectors. He speaks on a wide range of topics including blockchain, innovation, supply chain, business transformation, AfCFTA, etc.

PARTNER & CHIEF ECONOMIST, PWC

Andrew S. Nevin

One of PwC’s leading global thinkers, working at the complex intersection of economics, strategy, capital markets & investment. Andrew is a Partner and the Chief Economist, PwC West Africa. He plays key roles in advancing Nigeria’s and West Africa’s economy and society.

Founder, Thari Health

Lerato Masemola

Dr Lerato Masemola is a general family doctor with a passion to provide basic medical and debunking health myths, is a health and fitness fanatic. She has pushed herself from the Comrades Marathon to the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro. As a motivational speaker, she uses her personal experience of overcoming trauma to inspire people to succeed beyond their limits. She speaks mainly on trauma management and recovery, health and wellness and medical aesthetics, etc.

CEO, BIG INNOVATION CENTRE

Birgitte Andersen

An entrepreneur and international expert in business model innovation, digital transformation and Intellectual Property governance. As CEO, she has grown the BIC to become a building block in the innovation landscape in the UK and internationally.

Corporate Executive

Nkiru Olumide-Ojo

Nkiru has over 2 decades of experience as a Senior Corporate Executive looking after the reputation of multinational and national brands in Africa. Her work experience spans across various service sectors including Financial Services, Aviation, Telecommunication and the Oil and Gas sectors. She currently works in a financial services Group in South Africa in a role that covers several African Countries.

Communications Specialist

Lucille Ossai

Lucille Ossai is an international award-winning communications trainer, coach, advisor, keynote speaker, and multi-award-winning blogger. She holds an MSc from the London School of Economics and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Leicester (UK). She provides coaching, training, and advisory services on nonverbal communication, public speaking, interpersonal communication, business writing, and leadership communication and influence.

Technology Consultant

Nkem Nweke

Nkem Nweke is on a mission to build Africa’s future by developing inclusive, accessible and pioneering communities as he believes in an Africa where everyone can be a change maker. He leads Engineering Innovation at the Africa Development Centre (ADC), which is Microsoft’s Engineering team in the region. He formerly worked in several capacities with organizations like Hewlett Packard & Dimension Data.

Climate change and sustainability strategist

Audrey-Flore Ngomsik

TEDx speaker, named “most inspiring women in sustainability”, Audrey-Flore uses science to positively influence businesses to take actions to solve climate change challenges.

Founder and CEO Unbreached Threat Prevention Center

David Jacoby

Meet David Jacoby: the hacker who’s been outsmarting machines and minds for about 30 years. He has been mentioned as Sweden’s most outgoing and boldest hackers with a personality as bold as his code, Jacoby is not just a world-renowned expert—he’s a digital provocateur, blending deep insights with humor and jaw-dropping live hacks that will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew about technology.

Entrepreneur

Audrey Joe-Ezigbo

Audrey Joe-Ezigbo is a highly experienced business leader, advisor, enery expert and coach, with over 29 years proven track record and deep expertise in Strategic Planning and Execution, Corporate Governance, Investor relations, Advocacy, Entrepreneurship Development and Environmental Sustainability in private, public and non-profit sectors at Executive and Board levels.

Entrepreneur

Affiong Williams

Affiong Williams is the CEO/Founder of ReelFruit, the largest fruit processing, packaging and marketing company in Nigeria. The company, founded in 2012, retails a range of dried fruit and nut snacks through a variety of channels including over 1000 Supermarkets, Airlines, Schools, Hotels, and internationally. She is a recipient of the inaugural Veuve Clicquot “Bold Woman Award” in 2022, the WIMBIZ Entrepreneur of the Year and Forbes 30 under 30.

CEO of Education Group

Sameer Rawjee

Sameer founded the Life Design Lab at Google, which is used by Google employees from more than 100 countries. Life Design was created to explore multifaceted aspects of Human Purpose at Work. Today there are over 10 000 employees enrolled in the lab globally, who are graduates of the world’s Ivy League schools and former VPs of Fortune 500 companies.

Global CEO, Teraflow

Michael Cowen

Michael Cowen, CEO of Teraflow.ai, is a driving force in the AI revolution. With a background in leadership roles at Deloitte Digital and Mindshare, he’s also an experienced entrepreneur, having founded five startups. Now, he’s shifted gears to lead Global AI Business Teraflow.ai, applying his groundbreaking ‘Philosophy of Flow’ to change traditional business norms.

AI Consultant, Speaker, Lecturer

Johan Steyn

Johan Steyn is a renowned Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Advocate and a prominent speaker at global conferences on the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Emerging Technologies. In 2019, he was honored as the Best AI & Robotics Management Consultant by Wealth & Finance magazine in the UK.

Business Journalist

Alfred Edmond Jr

Alfred A. Edmond Jr. is an accomplished public speaker, moderator and live-event interviewer. Edmond is SVP/Executive Editor-at-Large of Black Enterprise (BE), responsible for providing brand, marketing and content leadership as a member of the multimedia company’s senior management team.

CEO, White Shark Africa and Great White Storage International.

Craig A.W. Ferreira

Craig is the first person in the world to attached a camera onto a Great White Shark. Also, he is the first and the only person to have extracted blood from free swimming Great White sharks. In the course of his adventure with the Great White Shark he has discovered significant behavioral aspects of the species.

CEO, What The Foresight

Craig Wing

Craig is an expert in emergent futures thinking, scenario planning, disruptive technologies, emergent business models, company culture and the new world of work. For two decades, he has delivered 500+ keynotes to over 5,000 global leaders and executives to understand, create and design their ideal futures through imagineering and futures thinking.

Founder and Managing Director of Shikana Group and Swiss Shikana Investment and Advisory

Amne Suedi

Amne Suedi is an international lawyer, investment adviser, and entrepreneur working at the intersection of law, capital, and Africa’s economic transformation. She is the Founder and Managing Director of Shikana Group and Swiss Shikana Investment and Advisory, firms based in Tanzania, East Africa and Switzerland, that advise international investors, financial institutions, and entrepreneurs on entering and expanding across East and Southern African markets.

Professor, University of Ghana Business School

Robert Ebo Hinson

Professor Robert Ebo Hinson is one of Africa’s most influential marketing scholars and transformational business thinkers. A globally ranked academic and award-winning consultant, he stands at the intersection of strategy, marketing, customer experience, leadership, and national development.

CEO, Lardi & Partner Consulting GmbH

Kamales Lardi

Kamales Lardi is a globally recognized authority on organizational transformation in the AI age, known for challenging why technology-driven change so often fails at scale. With more than 26 years of experience inside the technology industry, Kamales has worked across complex systems, global organizations, and multiple industries, advising senior executives, boards, and governments on how AI reshapes decision-making, power structures, and organizational resilience.

Founder & Director at Strategy Reignited

Anael Granoux

Anael Granoux is a Strategy Advisor, Speaker, and Lecturer with over 20 years of experience helping CEOs, Executives and Boards turn strategic ambition into measurable results. Known for cutting through buzzwords and fluff, he brings a rare mix of strategic clarity, execution discipline, and fresh thinking. His work focuses on one obsession: making strategy simple, actionable and impactful.

EQ Expert, Global Speaker and Rock Singer

Ricardo Cabete

EQ Expert, Global Speaker and Rock Singer

Founder & CEO, It's a Breeze

Marc Johnson

Marc is at heart inspired by possibility, most alive when putting his energies into work that contributes to societies thriving. He sees a direct line from his work in business financial literacy to building a much-needed entrepreneurial class across Africa

Founder, Worktainment

Obinna Inogbo

Born in Lagos, Nigeria in 1979. Obinna attended primary school in Lagos, secondary school in Kwara, before doing A-Levels and university in the UK, in London and Reading, respectively. In the 2000s, he worked as a copywriter, HR administrator and office administrator before entering the media as a TV producer for Channels Television in 2009. There, he co-produced over 300 episodes of their current affairs program Sunrise Daily. Obinna also worked as a scriptwriter and producer until 2017 on such TV shows as drama Tinsel, comedy Meet the Adebanjos, shopping show Bargain Hunters and celebrity chat show Fashion 360

Executive Peak Performance Coach

Ben Campagna

He transforms the way leaders approach mental health and performance. His insightful and impactful talks break limiting patterns, restore clarity and alignment, and give leaders and their teams the tools to reinvent themselves and perform without burning out.

Consultant, Real Estate & Commercial Attorney

Gareth Shepperson

Gareth is an entertaining, inspiring and informative Speaker. With close to 30 years of experience as an admitted attorney, Gareth has developed an exceptional expertise in Property Law (Real Estate), Commercial Law (Contracts) and Business Expansion & Structuring, as well as a passion for Legal Tech, Blockchain, and NFTs.

Founder and CEO Unbreached Threat Prevention Center

David Jacoby

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