Mr. Feng Deng founded Northern Light Venture Capital (NLVC) in 2005. He currently manages approximately US$ 1.7 billion in committed capital with 4 US$ funds and 4 RMB funds. He has led and backed over 200 companies, focusing on 4 main sectors: TMT (technology, media and telecom), clean technology, healthcare and consumer.
Ellen Olafsen is the Global Product Specialist on Growth Entrepreneurship of the Trade & Competitiveness Practice of the World Bank Group. She has been working in the field of entrepreneurship for over a decade, and has had wide geographic exposure ranging from Sub-Saharan Africa to Middle East and North Africa, Central and South Asia and Central America. She overseas programs on digital and agribusiness entrepreneurship, both programs started under her leadership.
Eric Ortner is an Appointee of President Obama to the President’s Committee on the Arts and
the Humanities and the Principal Partner of The Ortner Group, where he is a Producer and talent Manager. He was a key advisor and strategist for the Obama re-‐election campaign in 2012, and is currently the chair of the Entertainment Advisory Council to the White House Office of Public Engagement & The Executive Office of The President
Mr Abimbola Okubena obtained a B.Sc. degree in Chemical Engineering from the prestigious Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Osun State, Nigeria in 1991. He has over 20 years work experience. His began with Speakeezee Cellular Systems Ikoyi, Lagos where he functioned as the Systems Engineer. He is currently the Director, Business Development of Health Forever Products Limited (HFPL). He also has specialized training in Product Marketing and Strategic Marketing Plans from Cambridge, UK and Cranfield School of Management, Milton Keynes respectively.
Femi Oye - Renewable Energy Senator, recipient of several awards, Conference Speaker, IT Visionary, Investor, Conference and Business Speaker on SDG, Climate Change and Clean Energy, is the CEO of Green Energy & Biofuels (GEB), a leader and Africa’s foremost company bringing Cellulosic Bio Ethanol from Waste Biomass into the domestic CookStoves and transport fuel market. He Champions a disruptive Pay-As-You-Go Solar Mini Grid Solution for productive use by the active Poor.
Sanvar Oberoi is the Co-Founder and Director of Finance and Digital Technology at Bombay Hemp Company (BOHECO), a hybrid social enterprise transforming agriculture in developing economies. BOHECO is South Asia’s pioneering hemp company and is working with governments, scientists, farmers, industry and consumers globally to build an end-to-end ecosystem and self-sustaining model...
Jehiel Oliver, based in Abuja, Nigeria, is Founder & CEO of Hello Tractor, an agricultural technology company providing farm mechanization solutions through the sharing economy. Hello Tractor has developed a GPS enabled Smart Tractor designed specifically for African smallholder farmers. Jehiel manages the Hello Tractor team, strategy, and partnerships.
Tim has a history of convening conversations that reshape the industry. In 1998, he organized the meeting where the term "open source software" was agreed on, and helped the business world understand its importance. In 2004, with the Web 2.0 Summit, he defined how "Web 2.0" represented not only the resurgence of the web after the dot com bust, but a new model for the computer industry, based on big data, collective intelligence, and the internet as a platform.
Sally Osberg has been an entrepreneurial leader and catalyst for social change throughout her career. She propels those around her with her life philosophy and mantra, captured in one word: "Onward!" As President and CEO of the Skoll Foundation, she partners with Founder and Chairman Jeff Skoll and guides the organization in its search and support of innovators pioneering scalable solutions to pressing global problems.
Stephen Ozoigbo is a serial entrepreneur, investor and adviser to multiple technology startups. He is currently the CEO of the African Technology Foundation, a Silicon Valley corporation that seeks to globalize African technologies by providing access to resources that effectively address and manage the most pressing technological challenges on the continent.
