Board of Directors
Meet the dedicated team committed to empowering innovation and driving sustainable impact across the continent.
Christian Idodi
Board Chair and Executive Director
Christian Idiodi is a product leader with over 20 years of experience building teams and developing enterprise and consumer products that have shaped companies such as CareerBuilder and Merrill Corporation and clients such as Microsoft, Starbucks, and Squarespace.
Rosetta Idiodi-Ogara
Board Director
Rosetta Idiodi‐Ogara is a senior global People and Talent leader with more than two decades of experience building scalable, inclusive, and future‐ready talent organizations across Africa, Asia, and Europe. She currently serves as Talent Acquisition Director at a fortune 500 company.
Alfred Idiodi
Treasurer
Alfred Idiodi is a seasoned Procurement Specialist, Commodity Trader, and Oil & Gas Executive with a proven track record of driving strategic growth, operational excellence, and innovative transformation across diverse sectors. He currently serves as the Managing Director of Fohat Solutions Limited.
Dr. Seyi Ogebule
Board Director
Dr. Seyi Ogebule is an engineer turned product leader with over 15 years of experience across AI, data science, and semiconductor technologies. She works on next-generation AI processors and previously drove her organization’s first edge GPU, enabling intelligent workloads closer to where they are needed.
Chidi Afulezi
Board Director
Chidi Afulezi is a product sensei, digital insurgent, and ecosystem builder who helps organizations navigate digital transformation through product-centered models. With over two decades spanning Fortune 500 companies, African public sector entities and multinationals, and high-growth startups, he guides the next generation of product leaders and thinking globally.
Annu Augustine
Board Director
Annu Augustine is a product management coach and consultant working with product teams and leaders across Africa to build products that create impact. She is the founder of NedRock, a product management training and consulting company established in 2016 to help organisations strengthen their product capabilities and elevate the role of product across the continent.
Dayo Famakinwa
Treasurer
Dayo Famakinwa is a Chief Product Officer and senior technology product executive with 15+ years of experience leading product strategy, platform transformation, and monetization across SaaS, HR technology, recruiting marketplaces, M&A deal technology, and B2B eCommerce. Dayo currently serves as Chief Product Officer at Energage.
Sally Luckhurst
Secretary
Sally Luckhurst is the Executive Administrator at The Dodi Group, providing operational and communications support across the organization's initiatives, with a particular focus on the Innovate Africa Foundation. She brings over a decade of experience in executive administration, talent operations, and cross-functional project coordination to her work with IAF.
Program Leads
Rebecca King
Advisor & Co-Founder Inspire Africa Events
Rebecca King is an American business leader focused on advancing innovation, investment, and cross-border collaboration between Africa and global markets, particularly the United States and the Gulf region. She serves as an Advisor to the Innovate Africa Foundation and is the Program Lead for the Inspire Africa Product Tour and Inspire Africa Conference-led growth across the continent.
Anne Idiodi
Head of People Operations Worknigeria
Anne Idiodi is a seasoned People and Business Operations Executive with a broad cross sector experience that spans People management, organizational development, operations management, recruitment, legal advisory, and strategic leadership across the nonprofit, technology enabled space, Oil and Gas, and hospitality sectors.
Kristin Wilson
Managing Partner, Innovate Africa Investments
Kristin Wilson is a technology strategist and people systems expert who operates at the intersection of digital transformation, organisational design, and emerging market innovation. With over a decade of experience, Kristin specialises in helping teams build the systems, infrastructure, and capabilities needed to thrive in complex and evolving markets.
Osa Awani
Head of Programs and OperationsProduct Leadership Accelerator (PLA)
With over 15 years in the tech industry, Osa is Managing Partner at Artisan PMA, an advisory company, helping start-ups build and scale impactful products. She also leads Programs and Operations at the Product Leadership Accelerator (PLA), transforming product managers into leaders.
Nkem Nweke
Lead Coach Product Leadership Accelerator (PLA)
With over 15+ years in the technology sector, Nkem Nweke is a dedicated advocate for innovation, specializing in problem framing, design sprints, and product development. His career is marked by a drive to solve local challenges and create solutions with global reach. Nkem has held diverse business and technical roles at organizations like Hewlett Packard, Dimension Data, and most recently at Microsoft.
Program Leads
King John
Programs Manager
Titilayo Abaniwonda
Partnership Manager
Taibat Ibrahim
Brand & Comms Associate
Naomi Okwusi
Community & Marketing Associate
Daniel Ander
Program Associate
Gerald Obasi
Grant Writer
TESTIMONIALS
Voices from the community
"The conference empowered me to be a better leader for my team and provided strategies, frameworks, and techniques we could adopt immediately."
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HEAD OF PRODUCT • OMNIBIZ AFRICA
"The conference empowered me to be a better leader for my team and provided strategies, frameworks, and techniques we could adopt immediately."
ZAINAB A •
HEAD OF PRODUCT • OMNIBIZ AFRICA
"The conference empowered me to be a better leader for my team and provided strategies, frameworks, and techniques we could adopt immediately."
ZAINAB A •
HEAD OF PRODUCT • OMNIBIZ AFRICA