Startup grind Enugu in collaboration with Roar Nigeria Hub and Hult Pize team, UNN chapter engages Uju Uzo-Odinnaka, CEO/Founder Traders of Africa (TOFA) and African Trade Invest (ATI) in a workshop themed "Effective Structures and Network Required for Creating a New Niche in the Food Sector".
This discourse is geared towards equipping the cohorts with "knowledge and skills" that enables them to create excellent business structures, amidst also creating and/or expanding on local, regional and global networks, such that could give them a better leverage to attain success and global reckoning, as a startup that is carving out a new niche in the food business sector that tends to combat unhealthy foods, while surviving the strong oppositions posed by the multinational sharks that adamantly make these unhealthy foods available on the global food shelves (for example, Coca-Cola, etc.).
Traders of Africa (TOFA)
CEO/Founder
Uju Uzo-Ojinnaka is the last of a family of 11, She is a wife, and a mother to 4 children.
Uju is a resourceful and result-oriented individual with over 17 years’ work-experience in Strategic Marketing, Retail Banking and Business Development. Over the years, she has developed both hard and soft skills in Credit Analysis, Negotiation, Human Relations, Project Management and Leaders…
Uju Uzo-Ojinnaka is the last of a family of 11, She is a wife, and a mother to 4 children.
Uju is a resourceful and result-oriented individual with over 17 years’ work-experience in Strategic Marketing, Retail Banking and Business Development. Over the years, she has developed both hard and soft skills in Credit Analysis, Negotiation, Human Relations, Project Management and Leadership.
She obtained her first degree as the best graduating student in Sociology from the prestigious University of Lagos, Lagos in 1999.
She is the Director, Finance, Marketing and Admin at the Beniz Group Limited, where she oversees inventory procurement and management for all product categories as well as drive analysis and optimization of inventory management systems and processes to ensure world-class inventory availability. Additionally, she drives initiatives that improve sales, customer experience, and operational performance.
She is also the Founder and CEO of Traders of Africa (TOFA); a Pan African online marketplace for products grown, produced or manufactured in Africa ONLY and African Trade Invest (ATI), a Pan African Digital Trade and Investment platform for African trade
Uju holds a Global Executive MBA from the China Europe International Business school (CEIBS), She is the class president of CEIBS Zurich GEMBA 2016. She has a Professional Diploma in Marketing from the University of British Columbia and another Diploma in Creativity and Entrepreneurship from the Berkeley Institute for Creativity and Entrepreneurship.
Uju Pitched TOFA and won the 2019 Entrepreneurship World Cup (EWC) in Nigeria and represented Nigeria in the Global finals in Saudi Arabia in November 2019.
She was invited to Jack Ma's e Founder's Fellowship program in Hangzhou. A programme coordinated by Alibaba and the UNCTAD and co-chairs as the eFounders Ambassador for Nigeria.
At the First Jack Ma’s Netpreneur summit in Accra on Nov 16, 2019, Uju was invited to share the TOFA Story.
Uju was invited as a panelist at the United Nations General Assembly 2020 under the SDG Action Zone
When she’s not working, she likes listening to music, singing, reading, swimming and Loves meeting new people.
Startup Grind Enugu chapter
Director
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A serial entrepreneur with diversified interests in Agriculture, Education, ICT, Transportation (Logistics) and Engineering. He currently is the; Startup Grind Enugu chapter Director, Founder/MD Richmills Nigeria, Founder/MD Gardeners 4 Africa.
He founded the student - student free tutorials that originated at the department of Banking and Finance University of Nigeria Enugu campus, which has being replicated in all the departments in same University, and as well in several other departments nationwide.
An experienced Founder with a demonstrated history of working in the food production industry. Skilled in Market Planning, Economic Development, Financial Analysis, Product Marketing, and Finance. Strong business development professional with a Bachelor of Science - BS focused in Banking and Finance from University of Nigeria, Enugu campus.
Passionate about steering lives to career fulfilment through a self realization that births a unique vision and drives each individual thru the right career path
Richmills Nigeria
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