December, 2021 - Fifty Faces Hub

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14. Adesuwa Okunbo Rhodes of Aruwa Capital Management – Investing through a Gender Lens

Adesuwa Okunbo Rhodes is the founder of Aruwa Capital Management, a growth equity impact fund investing in untapped opportunities across Nigeria and West Africa....
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Founder
Gender Lens
Africa
Impact
Empowerment

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24. Frans van Eersel of dopay – On the Frontier of Empowerment and Impact

Frans van Eersel is the CEO and Founder of dopay, a payments company headquartered in London but with a primary market of Egypt, where Frans lived for 4 years. He has had a long career in industry, and is also CEO of Driver’s Seat Investment. ...
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Payments
Frontier
Impact
Emerging Markets

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163. Blair Smith of the Milken Institute – Thinking and Doing in the Field of Inclusive Capital

Blair Smith is Senior Director of the Center for Financial Markets at the Milken Institute, where he leads the Center’s Access to Capital and strategic innovative financing initiatives to enhance economic and social impact. Prior to joining Milken he was an adjunct professor at the Columbia Business School....
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17. Chidiebere Ibe – Representation with a Difference

Chidiebere Ibe is a medical student and Forbes-Featured medical illustrator whose illustration of a black fetus in utero went viral in December 2021. Many commentators said that this was the first time that they had seen a depiction of a dark-skinned fetus or pregnant woman and provoked a discussion about the lack of representation of such images...
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Medical Illustration
Medicine
Representation
Resilience

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3. Bonus: Fiftyfaces Focus Medicine and Science – Chidiebere Ibe – Representation with a Difference

Chidiebere Ibe is a medical student and Forbes-Featured medical illustrator whose illustration of a black fetus in utero went viral in December 2021. Many commentators said that this was the first time that they had seen a depiction of a dark-skinned fetus or pregnant woman and provoked a discussion about the lack of representation of such images...
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Medical Illustration
Student
Representation
Resilience

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23. Ashwini Asokan of Mad Street Den – Demystifying AI through Anthropology and Insight

Ashwini Asokan is the founder and CEO of Mad Street Den, an Artificial Intelligence company, powering Retail, Education, Healthcare, Media, Finance & more with its image recognition platforms, Vue.ai and Blox.ai. Headquartered in the Bay Area, California, the company has offices around the globe. She previously worked at Intel, where she led IXR's ...
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Founder
AI
Diversity
Tech
Anthropology

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24. Ahryun Moon of Goodtime.io – Scheduling Efficiency and Analyzing the Female Founders Discount

Ahryun Moon is Founder and Head of Company Strategy at GoodTime.io a company designed to boost employee productivity by making scheduling meetings easier. This is not her first time founding a company – she also founded Etch Keyboard and previously worked as a financial accountant and financial analyst. ...
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Scheduling
Founder
Discount
Couple-Preneur

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12. Ahryun Moon of Goodtime.io – Scheduling Efficiency and Analyzing the Female Founders Discount

Ahryun Moon is Founder and Head of Company Strategy at GoodTime.io a company designed to boost employee productivity by making scheduling meetings easier. This is not her first time founding a company – she also founded Etch Keyboard and previously worked as a financial accountant and financial analyst. ...
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Scheduling
Founder
Discount
Female Founder
Couple-Preneur

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BONUS: Joe Adkins: Once Upon a Time it Grew Into The Big One: A Modern Fairytale

Joe Adkins is a massage therapist based in Wheaton Illinois. For the past 15 years or so Joe has been growing large vegetables – very large vegetables – in his garden in Wheaton, and in 2016 grew a pumpkin which weighed over 1860 lbs, winning the coveted title of “heaviest in Illinois” in that year. ...
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Fall
Pumpkins
FairyTale
Ambition

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Bonus: Richard Okello of Sango Capital – From Radical Candor to Opportunity in Abundance

Richard Okello is CEO and Co-founder at Sango Capital, an investment firm he founded 10 years ago that has a particular focus on investing in Africa. He previously was a principal at Makena Capital, and prior to that in a series of roles at Bridgewater Associates. He sits on several fund advisory boards, portfolio company boards as well as the bo...
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Africa
Investing
ESG
Emerging Market
Sustainability