Evarist Odinikaeze is a private equity executive and formerly a Global Markets Surveillance Analyst at State Street Corporation. He was The Mission Continues Fellow at All Dorchester Sports and Leadership (ADSL) in Boston. He is a U.S Coast Guard veteran after serving as an active duty for eight years in different capacities.
He loves using his extensive experience in accounting, project management, program evaluation and analytical skills from military operations and education in solving problems. He has had the opportunity to work on high impact and novel projects that enhanced both mission accomplishments and national security in record times.
Grateful for an amazing family and group of friends, Evarist holds a Masters of Public Policy from Northeastern University and a Masters of Accounting from St. Mary’s College of California, in addition to BiMBA from Peking University. He speaks a lot of languages including Igbo and German and makes sure to welcome and respect other people’s cultures, having lived, studied and traveled in over 40 countries spreading across Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the Americas.
Chigozie David Stephens is an experienced risk and operations professional with extensive experience in Banking and the Public Sector.
Chigozie’s collective experience spans over two decades and his tenure has been at two of the largest Banks in the United States of America.
Chigozie has a long history of risk and operations management beginning with his post-undergraduate career as an Army Officer in the Special Operations realm. In his almost a decade of service, Chigozie operated in and supported classified missions across the Middle East and Europe.
Chigozie has his Juris Doctorate (JD) from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Law, and he holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the American University. Chigozie received his Bachelor’s degree from Middlebury College in 2002.
Uwem-Ima Nkereumen is a serial entrepreneur a former public health scientist for Huntsville Department of Public Health.
Expertise:
Public Policy – Public Health – African American Affairs
Business development – Strategy – Research – Advocacy – Leadership
Finance – Investment – Management
He currently works as a financial analyst at Edward Jones while building his own investment statrtup.
When not working, Uwem focuses on his passion for cooking, gardening and exploring different cultures.
Uwem-Ima holds a Bachelor’s degree in Public Health/International Business from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, in addition to CFA licenses from the CFA Institute.
Emeka Mike Onyeagwa has over 12 years of experience and knowledge working in countries Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and North America. In roles in Mobile Banking, Public Relations, Journalism, Advertising, Accounts management, Content production, and others.
Public Relations – Communication – Buiness Development
Reaseach
Content Creation, Production & Advertising
Emeka is also experienced working for the U.S. government as a Soldier and Contractor.
In addition to studies in History, IT, Law, and Business in Nigeria, Europe, and America, Emeka is currently enrolled in a dual graduate program track of Law & History Ph.D. at Fordham University, New York.
Chigozie is an Economist and Geographer, working as an expert and excutive in the field of enegry and infrastures devlopment on the Afriucan Continenet for ore than 10 years. He draws his unquine prepesctives from his multi-displinary studies in Development Economics, International Relations and Geography.
Governance research, consulting and project planning
Business development, and Strategy Development project structuring and financing
International realtions and African Affiars
Chigozie works as a researcher, consultant, and project developer in the public and private sector. He received his master’s degree in Development Economics and International Studies and is currently finishing his doctoral studies in Economic Geography at the University of Bonn, Germany.
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