2023 Speakers

Fatimatu Abubakar

Deputy Minister for Information, Republic of Ghana

Dr. Nadia Adongo Fynn

Deputy Director, Diaspora Affairs - Office of the President, Ghana

Tiffany Calendar

CEO, Federation of African Canadian Economics

Paulette Senior

CEO of The Canada Women's Foundation

Nana Kra Kwamina II

Dr. Kwa David Whitaker, ESQ

Nene Kwasi Kafele

Manoyam Matse (Development Chief) for Manya Krobo Traditional Area, in the Eastern Region of Ghana

Kike Ojo-Thompson

Founder Kojo Institute

Rabbi, Kohain Halevi

Executive Secretary at PANAFEST Foundation

Amma Lartey

CEO of Impact Investing Ghana

Ross Cadastre

President of the Black Business Professionals Association

Jillisa Brown

Executive Director, Table for Impact Investment Practitioners

Liban Abokor

Co-Founder of The Foundation for Black Communities & Re-Imagine Labs

Isaac Olowolafe Jr.

Founder of the Dream Legacy Foundation

David Harley

Founder, Third Way Capital

Alfred Burgesson

Founder, Tribe Network

Kwabena Owusu-Adjei

Co-Founder, Third Way Capital

Amoye Henry

Senior Investment Consultant and Founder of Pitch Better Canada & Pitch Better Africa

Justice Gadugah

Executive Director SOY Africa

Craig Wellington

Executive Director of the Black Opportunities Fund

Clavia Alleyne

Vice President of the Black Business Professional Association of BC

Laurel Sabur

Manager, Private Investments Rally Assets

Foster Akugri

President, Hacklab Foundation

Nerissa Allen

Founder, Black Business Professional Association of BC

William Senyo

Co-Founder & CEO of Impact Hub Accra

Kwame A. A. Opoku

International Innovation Strategist

Liza Arnason

Founder of ASE Foundation for Black Canadians with Disabilities

Ryan Oneil Knight

Co-Founder, Afro Caribbean Business Network

Kate Opoku

Country Leader Let's Do It Ghana

Nasir Egyin

CEO of WACTI

Edwin Zu-Cudjoe

Executive Director At Social Enterprise Ghana

Jennifer A. Moffatt

Head of Programs BudgIT Ghana

Dr. Maxwell Ampong

ECO of Maxwell Investments Group

Naa Motsoo Oshedu Mpese I - Karla Van-Pitterson

BACP Psychotherapist & Counsellor UK

Camesha Cox

Founder of The Reading Partnership

Benaiah Rawlings

Founder of Zea Homes

Kwame Osei B.Ed.

TEDx Speaker, Author, Mental Health Advocate

Jennifer Frimpong

Google, Business Affairs Manager

Devon Jones

Founder of YAAACE

Efia Tekyi-Annan

Program Manager at YAAACE

Daniel Owusu

Managing Partner of The Misfit Consulting

Minelle Williams

International Business Development Leader

Dipo Alli

Founder of the Black Business Ventures Association

Nathaniel & Chantelle Agadzi

Founders of WINNCK

Sacha Boxill

Director of Corporate Banking, Scotiabank Bank Global Markets

Charles Buchanan

CEO at Technology Helps

BleSsed Brooks

Executive Director of Sisters in Solidarity

Ebenzer Arthur

Founder & CEO of Wangari Ventures at Technology Help

Donnetta Wells

Founder of the PTHR3E Platform

Abraham Nii Addo

Founder of GET CONNECTED GLOBAL

Cecil Nutakor

Founder CEO - ECampus LLC

Rosemarie Powell

Executive Director, TCBN

Evans Oha

Head of Leadership SOY Africa

Nikki Clarke

National Business Manager, Canadian Black Chamber of Commerce

Estelle Jacqueline Asare

Head, Digital Transformation

Donna-Mae Griffiths

Founder of Black Jewel

Clement Esene

Founder Of The BIPOC FOUNDATION

Chris-Ann Manning

Program Coordinator, Dream Legacy Foundation

Dr. Phil Vanhorne

International Business Development Strategist

Janice Bartley

Founder of Foodprenuer Lab

Collins Boakye-Yiadom

Dream Legacy Foundation Homeownership Bridge Program

Samuel Sasu Adonten

Lead on Education and Students Rights.

Pius Selasi Gbli

Executive Member SOY Africa

Gloria Agyare

Programmes Officer GHANA YOUTH ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT

Pharaoh Hamid Freeman

Founder of the OFC

Portia Adu-Mensah

Coordinator, 350 Ghana Reducing Our Carbon

Patricia Agyapomaa

Secretary SOY Africa

Raphael Odjerbio

Founder & C.E.O, RAJO GROUP

Jessica Rayne

Founder of Her Capital