The list is said to identify the new generations of forward-thinking technologists leading in tech sectors across the globe.
FUNKE OPEKE
Funke, 57, is the founder and CEO of MainOne, a leading provider of innovative telecommunication services and network solutions for companies in West Africa. After 20 years working in the US telecommunications .Funke Opeke returned to Nigeria and began to correct the connectivity problems of the country. She entered the public telecommunications company, NITEL and learned satellites were only part of the problem. Thus, in 2008, he raised $ 240 million in financing and placed 4,400 miles of fiber optic cable from Nigeria to Portugal and opened access to 7,000 kilometers of high capacity submarine cable submarine. MainOne also built West Africa’s largest Tier III Data Center, MDX-i’s Lekki Data Center, a $40 million investment with a capacity for 600 racks.
AMY JADESIMI
Amy, 42, is the Managing Director and Founder of Lagos Deep Offshore Logistics Base (LADOL). She is in charge of the growth of the largest logistics and engineering factory in West Africa that operates in a free trade zone. LADOL is using the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations, extending the service to sectors outside the oil industry and creating tens of thousands of jobs. Amy is an Oxford doctor who worked at Goldman Sachs and studied at the Stanford Business School before working on the ladder of LADOL, founded by her father Oladipo Jadesimi in 2000.
ANNE-MARIE IMAFIDON
Annie-Marie, 29, is the co-founder and CEO of Stemettes, an award-winning social enterprise that inspires more than 14,000 girls in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The organization, which began in 2013, helped 40,000 girls to realize their STEM potential. Its Her own Stemettes STEM resources app is used by thousands of members of the "Stemillion" school club. Annie-Marie is currently working with media companies such as the BBC and 20th Century Fox to put more technology models on screen. Annie also co-founded Outbox Incubator, the world's first technology incubator for teens, which has supported 115 young entrepreneurs to date.
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