The "New Normal Realities Series" hosts tech founders across the world in a fireside chat to glean insights, especially on the current and future state of the local and global economy due to the Covid19 pandemic. These founders will also share their journey and unique experiences to help Startup Grind achieve its mission of inspiring, educating and connecting tech entrepreneurs.

Simeon Ononobi is a Software Engineer and the Cofounder/CEO of ThankUCash by Connected Analytics, a multi-merchant rewards platform that helps businesses and banks integrate data analytics and rewards in order to retain customers and increase revenue. Among other achievements, Simeon is an alumni of 500Startups, one of the world's leading accelerators based in San Francisco.

In 2012, Simeon founded SimplePay, a payment processing platform which won the the SeedStars World Award in 2013, nominated as top 3 Best Payment Company in West Africa in 2016 and was finalist at the Global SeedStars Award for Best Companies World Wide.

Simeon is a serial entrepreneur. a mentor and a community builder.