We are excited to announce our lineup of amazing women to lead our #SGWomen month celebration. This panel will be hosted by SG Lagos' co-director - Blessing Abeng.
1. Oluwatosin Oladeinde
Tosin is a chartered accountant with 10 years of experience across accounting, corporate finance, auditing and taxation.
In 2018, She founded Money Africa, a personal finance platform that teaches people to build healthy financial habits and generate multiple income streams.
Before devoting her work to Money Africa, she worked with several multinationals — Bloomberg TV, CNBC Africa, BAT to name a few.
2. Maryam Lawan Gwadebe
Maryam runs the only female owned hub In Northern Nigeria, Blue Sapphire Hub (Technology and Business Hub), under which several programmes, seminars, trainings, pre-incubation and mentorship are being carried to encourage people across the dimensions of social strata, age and gender stereotyping to engage ICT and entrepreneurship.
3. Fatima Babakura
Fatima is a founder and creative director of Timabee, a luxury accessory brand which she created out of her passion for sketching designs. We love when we see young women charting a course for their lives early on.
Within 3 years of starting the business, Timabee has won a best fashion brand of the year award. She has also been listed among 22 women redefining luxury in Africa by the Lionesses of Africa group, and received the WEF “Iconic Woman” award in 2017.
Fatima’s passion for women and girls has inspired her to continue to grow Timabee, as well as start other businesses that would create job opportunities, especially in Africa. She is also the co- founder of Signature Boutique in Canada, a multi-brand boutique that aims to showcase the works of African based designers to the world.
This virtual event is scheduled for 3pm, 27th June 2020. Tickets are free and can be gotten by signing up here - https://www.startupgrind.com/j/vz8cvxn4tu852/
Blue Sapphire Hub
Founder/CEO
The Money Africa
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Timabee
Founder/Creative Director
The founder of Blue Sapphire Hub and CEO Blue Sapphire Esolutions. An academic researcher with bachelor's degree in software engineering from Coventry university UK and masters in computer network management from Middlesex University Dubai. A certified UNIDO trainer for entrepreneurship and digital skills. An award winner for ICT track at emerging research paradigm for social sciences conference. She is passionate and driven individual with keen interest in the opportunities presented by ICT leveraging its innovations to impact on the livelihood and businesses of all that i come across.
Tosin is a chartered accountant with 10 years of experience across accounting, corporate finance, auditing and taxation.
In 2018, She founded Money Africa, a personal finance platform that teaches people to build healthy financial habits and generate multiple income streams.
Before devoting her work to Money Africa, she worked with several multinationals — Bloomberg TV, CNBC Africa, BAT to name a few.
Fatima Yagana Babakura has been an inspirational figurehead for many young women. She is the founder and creative director of Timabee, a luxury accessory brand that is committed to designing and manufacturing high-end pieces with the best leathers for women. Her love for designing and the curiosity to see her design come to life was what pushed her to start Timabee.
Fatima graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce from McMaster University. In May 2016, she was the Personal Assistant to the honorable Commissioner for Environment Gombe state. During the course of her work in that position, she efficiently managed the media and social media pages for the ministry where she helped create awareness among people about the ministry which in turn increased productivity in the ministry. She also worked as an intern with KPMG Nigeria in 2017 where she carried out research for analysis to benchmark NEXIM against other EXIM banks, in addition to numerous other assignments.
Fatima started Timabee in 2014 where she carefully selects materials, designs and makes samples of handbags and shoes, then decides what goes into a collection. She oversees the creative process and gives guidance to her creative manufacturers to ensure the quality of handbags and manages promotion to ensure efficient marketing of the brand to increase sales. Timabee has exhibited both locally and internationally.
In 2016, Timabee won the "best brand of the year " at an event organized by Team 360 group in Toronto, Canada. In 2017, Fatima was awarded "Iconic Woman" at Women's Economic Forum's (WEF) annual event in India. MAX Group nominated her as "entrepreneur of the year " in Toronto. In 2018, Fatima was listed among "100 most influential Nigerians ". Fatima has also been invited to speak at WEF, MAX GROUP Canada's annual Gala. She was also listed as one of the "22 women entrepreneurs redefining African luxury ". Fatima and Timabee have been featured in countless newspapers and magazines around the world.
Passionate about entrepreneurship and mentorship in Africa especially for women, Fatima founded Timabee Global Resources (TGR). TGR is a platform that helps anyone inspired or interested in the accessory business to navigate their way from product development up until delivery processes.
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