FSDH Women In Business Initiative
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WIBI 4.0: SHE TRANSCENDS
Spurring women to build enduring businesses and careers.

ABOUT FSDH WOMEN IN BUSINESS INITIATIVE

The FSDH Women in Business Initiative (WIBI) is focused on enabling, empowering, and encouraging women across the country to continue to thrive in their chosen area of endeavor.

This year, we would be taking the event a notch high. While continuing to focus on empowering women to thrive as entrepreneurs and career professionals through inspiring stories of accomplished women, we are also emphasizing the importance of not neglecting crucial areas that are pivotal for women to flourish in their chosen endeavours. Our theme for this year captures this vision perfectly: “SHE TRANSCENDS: Spurring Women to Build Enduring Businesses and Careers.”

The FSDH Women in Business Initiative (WIBI) is focused on enabling, empowering, and encouraging women across the country to continue to thrive in their chosen area of endeavor.

This year, we would be taking the event a notch high. While continuing to focus on empowering women to thrive as entrepreneurs and career professionals through inspiring stories of accomplished women, we are also emphasizing the importance of not neglecting crucial areas that are pivotal for women to flourish in their chosen endeavours. Our theme for this year captures this vision perfectly: “SHE TRANSCENDS: Spurring Women to Build Enduring Businesses and Careers.”

At WIBI 2024, we aim to expose women to the importance of prioritizing these areas to achieve holistic success. By addressing mental health, personal development, regulatory knowledge, and wealth management, we equip women with the tools needed to excel both personally and professionally.

Attendees will have the opportunity to hear from industry experts and women who have excelled in their respective fields. These sessions will offer practical advice, real-world insights, and actionable strategies to empower attendees to thrive in their careers, businesses and personal life.

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This panel aims to provide a platform for successful female entrepreneurs to impart invaluable insights and wisdom garnered through years of their entrepreneurial journeys. These discussions will explore their progression from the initial stages of idea conception to establishing thriving businesses. The panel will also spotlight the hurdles they encountered and the strategies they harnessed to surmount them.

By the end of this panel discussion, we aim to ensure that our audience is not only inspired but also educated, equipping them with the knowledge, motivation, and requisite tools to embark on their entrepreneurial ventures or to elevate their existing concepts into compelling narratives that make a meaningful impact within the female economy.

The goal of this panel is to facilitate a spirited discussion that will explore the concept of intrapreneurship, its significance in the modern workplace, and how career women and organizations can harness this entrepreneurial spirit to drive innovation, personal growth, and improve their professional prestige. The panel aims to inspire and educate the audience on the principles, challenges, and opportunities for the working woman who desires to win at work, ultimately empowering them to embrace an intrapreneurial mindset for thriving in their work environments.

Creating a strong personal and professional/business brand while maintaining a critical balance is essential, especially for women who aspire to succeed in various aspects of their lives. 

The panel will focus on key elements like community, respect for social structures, relationship building, fashion, giving back, and more. We have invited successful women who have excelled in various fields and embody these attributes. The panelists should be willing to share their personal stories and experiences to serve as a source of strength to young women in the room.

Meet Our Speakers

Panel 1

Positioning Your Business For Global Funding Opportunities.

Solape Akinpelu

Founder, HerVest
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Ashim Egunjobi

Founder, Octerra Capital
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Yanmo Omoregbe

Co-Founder/COO, Bamboo
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Olu Akanmu

President & Co-CEO, OPay Nigeria
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Panel 2

Women Winning Together: The Rise of Women-Empowered Communities

Damilola Olokesusi

Co-Founder & CEO, Shuttlers
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Tosin Olaseinde

Founder, MoneyAfrica
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Debola Deji-Kurunmi

Founder, Immerse Coaching Company
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Olive Emodi

Event Host
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Our Focus

Money management and wealth creation

Financial literacy and effective money management are crucial for building and sustaining wealth. The panelist will cover investment strategies, financial planning, and wealth-building tactics tailored for women, providing practical advice to help manage finances, make informed investments, and create lasting wealth.

Operational and regulatory requirements for female-owned businesses

Understanding corporate governance and the regulatory landscape is crucial for ensuring compliance and driving operational efficiency in female-owned businesses. The panelist will provide insights on navigating these challenges, sharing best practices for maintaining strong governance structures, minimizing risks, and enhancing business performance.

Mental And physical well-being

Mental well-being is vital for career and personal success. The panelist will highlight the importance of mental health, offering expert advice on stress management, work-life balance, and resilience strategies to ensure sustained success.

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Solape Akinpelu

Panelist 1
Founder, HerVest

Background

Solape Akinpelu is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder at HerVest, a fintech pioneering inclusive finance for African women through goal-oriented savings, impact investing and credit for smallholder women farmers and Women-owned and led SMEs. With a thriving community of over 30,000 members, HerVest is on a mission to improve women’s lives through greater access to and use of financial services.

She doubles as the Chapter Director for Women in Tech Nigeria, an international organization with a double mission: to close the gender gap and to help women embrace technology as well as Chairman, Technology, Nigerian-British Chamber of Commerce.

Solape is a Certified Financial Education Instructor and a member of the Personal Finance Speakers Association (USA). She is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and has demonstrated excellence in financial marketing in her former role as Marketing head, Meristem, a top investment and wealth management conglomerate in Nigeria. A global and sought-after speaker, she continues to lead gender finance conversations online, offline, in print and across leading media publications

Ashim Egunjobi

Panelist 2
Founder, Octerra Capital

Background

Ashim Egunjobi is the Managing Partner at Octerra Capital, a pan-African early stage venture capital fund focused on unlocking funding and growth opportunities for African founders and startups. Octerra Capital invests in impact driven founders looking to disrupt and change the narrative on the continent.

Ashim has over 15 years of experience working in tech, banking, and finance, leading multinational teams and organizations across Africa, Germany, the Middle East, and Asia, giving her a global perspective and local insight into the opportunities and risks organizations face in today’s quickly moving world.

Yanmo Omoregbe

Panelist 3
Co-Founder/COO, Bamboo

Background

Yanmo Omorogbe is the co-founder and COO of Bamboo. She leads growth and operations as the COO of Bamboo. Bamboo is a digital investment platform that gives Nigerians real-time access to buy, sell or hold assets traded on the US stock exchange from their mobile phones or computers.

She is the operational backbone of a business turning ordinary Nigerians into global investors. With Bamboo, the average Nigerian can become a shareholder in the technology companies they use every day like Twitter, Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook.

Olu Akanmu

Panelist 4
President & Co-CEO, OPay Nigeria

Background

Olu Akanmu is a seasoned commercial executive with over 20 years of corporate leadership experience. He has a wide range of expertise at high levels in consumer products, manufacturing, healthcare, telecommunications, financial services and technology. He is currently the President and Co-CEO of OPay Nigeria. Before Opay, he worked as executive director, Retail Banking at FCMB. As Chief Marketing Officer at Airtel Nigeria where he was responsible for leading commercial strategy and achieving yearly revenue targets of more than USD 1.5 billion.

Prior to working at Airtel, Akanmu operated as Managing Director for Retail and Consumer Banking at the now-defunct Bank PHB. He also worked in MTN Nigeria as General Manager, Consumer Marketing and was the chief architect of MTN’s unique brand and consumer marketing strategy in Nigeria.

Akanmu has a diverse educational background within and outside Nigeria. He graduated from Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife with a bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy. He also holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Lagos State University. He also studied at the University of Witwatersrand and Edinburgh Business School, earning a distinction in the Management Advancement Program and a post-graduate certificate in Business Research.

Damilola Olokusesi

Panelist 1
Co-Founder & CEO, Shuttlers

Background

Damilola Olokesusi is the Co-Founder and CEO of Shuttlers, a transport & tech company startup currently revolutionizing the way professionals and organizations commute in metropolitan cities like Lagos. In 2021, Shuttlers announced a $1.6m seed round to scale its operations in other cities across Africa.

Damilola holds a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Lagos. She is a part of the Harambean Team for 2018 cohort; an Alliance for highly educated young African social, business and political entrepreneurs, attending leading universities in Asia, Europe and North America. In 2019, she was named in Forbes Africa’s 30 Under 30 list (Technology category).

Tosin Oluseinde

Panelist 2
Founder, MoneyAfrica

Background

Oluwatosin is a professional accountant with over 10 years of experience spanning across accounting, audit, financial management and taxation. She is the Founder/CEO of Money Africa, an edtech platform that enhances financial literacy and investments leveraging on technology with a community of over 200,000 people.

Oluwatosin is Washington Mandela Fellow, a LinkedIn Top Voice Finance and Economy 2020.

She was a finalist for The Future Awards In 2019, she was selected as one the top 100 women by The Leading Ladies Africa, she was one of the top 8 traders by CNBC Africa in 2012, a member of the Golden Key International Honour Society. Oluwatosin has spoken at TedX, Featured on BBC UK, Al Jazeera, CNN, Guardian and several others.

Debola Deji-Kurunmi

Panelist 3
Founder, Immerse Coaching Company

Background

Debola Deji-Kurunmi is a transformational catalyst, equipping a new breed of African visionaries to rise and enthrone the continent into global prominence, through her work of coaching, consulting, and capacity building.

She is Founder of IMMERSE Coaching Company (a personal transformation coaching practice), Executive Director at Ideation Hub Africa (a public policy and impact advisory firm) and President at Kingdom Women Global Alliance and FIREBRAND Movement (both faith-based organizations)

Olive Emodi

Host

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