By Joy Falade I believe leadership is in two basic contexts: good leadership and bad leadership, Good leadership is a practical skill that encircles an individual to lay a right footstep for others to follow or influencing someone to be the very best personality they can be, while, bad leadership is all about setting the
By Francis Oboh Leading self. Leading others. This is my newfound mantra since awakening to the reality of leadership paradigms and approaches. Many do not realize, but for the most part, leading self is harder than leading others. I have realized this now, and some useful tools that I have begun to adapt are discipline
by Michael Akpan Jr. We’re pleased to inform you that you have been selected by the Admissions Committee as one of the 30 bright minds to participate in The Bridge Entrepreneurial Leadership Fellowship Program for 2019. Prior to the acceptance email, with excerpt above, there was the application process which started out with an online
By Onyekah Princewill I have learned a lot this week. It’s been wonderful meeting new people with different ideas and creative minds. Mr. John, our facilitator, has really made this camp accommodating and memorable. We all are on a journey: The Entrepreneurial Leadership journey. The Bridge Program has designed a very inspiring module, and one I would
By Oludayo Olufowob Alchemist: A person who transforms or creates something through a seemingly magical process. The two-week impact session ended with a rooftop networking session; an ethereal moment when we met with Nigerians who are making waves in their careers, some from the humblest beginnings. An analogy in mind is Moses being taken up
Vinayak Mahbubani joined The Afara Initiative in July 2021 as Chief of Staff. Having built his career in investment banking, he joins our team to drive and support key strategic initiatives, including a specific focus on our for-profit endeavours around funding transitions and investing in ventures that accelerate our work.
At Deutsche Bank, he was part of the Europe Prime Finance desk responsible for carrying out risk and pricing analysis for hedge fund clients. More recently, he worked with DC Advisory India, advising clients on fundraising and M&A transactions in the Technology (Education, Logistics, Marketplace) and Industrials group.
Vinayak holds an M.Sc in Economics and a minor in Mathematics, and he has successfully passed all three levels of the CFA examinations. He served as President for AIESEC in IIT Kharagpur (India) in 2016 and has served in a consulting capacity to various non-profits across India.
Adejoke is the co-founder of the Bridge Program (the flagship program of The Afara Initiative) and lead creative at BDS.
Adejoke is passionate about national and international development and currently leads an indigenous brand challenging the reliance on imported products and creating superior products that can compete in international markets. She is an astute commercial lawyer and general counsel, with two decades of broad-based and cross-geographical experience. She has worked in both the public and private sectors, leading the management and delivery of legal services across multiple projects and companies in West Africa.
Adejoke holds an LLB from the University of Warwick, an LLM in International Business Law from the London School of Economics and is admitted to the Nigerian Bar.