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Neveen El Tahri
Neveen El Tahri, Chairperson of Egypt-based Delta Shield for Investment, outlines her transition from banking to entrepreneurship as she built a diverse portfolio of brokerage companies. View Details
- 06 Sep 2019
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Mo Ibrahim
Mo Ibrahim, the founder of the African telecommunications company Celtel and later a major corporate philanthropist, describes his decisions to leave the large telecommunications company British Telecom and... View Details
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Helmy Abouleish
Helmy Abouleish, CEO of the SEKEM Initiative, describes the group’s early days as his father first established the groundwork for biodynamic agriculture and an “economy of love” in the Egyptian desert. View Details
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Philipp Schäelli
you need to visit and live in countries yourself in order to understand them. Having interacted with Start-ups and VCs as president of the Entrepreneurship club I knew that I wanted to be investing at a slightly later stage of the... View Details
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Louisa Mojela & Gloria Serobe
Gloria Serobe, Co-Founder and Group Chief Executive Officer of WIPHOLD, outlines the founding vision for the Black women-owned investment company in 1994, as opportunities in business remained largely unavailable to women in South Africa despite having recently become... View Details
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Nicolás Jodal
Nicolás Jodal, Co-Founder and CEO of GeneXus, explains how he and his business partner Breogán Gonda built up their software development company in the late 1980s. View Details
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Adenike Ogunlesi
Adenike Ogunlesi, Founder and Chief Responsibility Officer of Ruff 'n' Tumble, outlines how she started her children's clothing line, crafting unique cotton pajamas for her kids after noticing a lack of affordable options in the Nigerian market. View Details
- 12 Mar 2020
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Robert Brozin
Robert Brozin, the co-Founder of Nando’s, a South African-based restaurant chain specializing in Portuguese food, discusses how he started the business with Fernando Duarte, after tiring of being an auditor and... View Details
- 12 Mar 2020
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Ian Fuhr
Ian Fuhr, founder of Sorbet, the largest chain of beauty salons in South Africa, discusses how he saw an opportunity in an industry in which he had no experience, but rather fresh eyes.
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Muhammad Alagil
Muhammed Alagil, Chairman of Jarir Investment in Saudi Arabia, discusses how he and his brothers started the business with a small office supply store in 1979.
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Leonor Melo de Velasco
Leonor Melo, who founded the Mundo Mujer Foundation (Women’s World Foundation) in Colombia in 1985, describes how a devastating earthquake in the city of Popayán led her to leave her career as a dentist, and... View Details
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Amina Laraki Slaoui
Amina Laraki Slaoui, President of AMH Group, describes the organization's early days and how she coordinated a series of fundraisers to raise the capital needed to build a rehabilitation center (Noor Center for Physical and Functional Rehabilitation). View Details
- 12 Nov 2019
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Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Chairperson and Managing Director of Biocon, India’s largest biopharmaceutical company, relates how gender bias set her on a path to invest in industrial enzymes and the foundation of... View Details
- 25 Mar 2022
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Omobola Johnson
Omobola Johnson, the former Minister of Communication Technology in Nigeria, discusses her transition into a venture capital career and highlights how venture capital enables young Nigerian entrepreneurs to address local challenges. View Details
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Mallika Sarabhai
Mallika Sarabhai, co-Director of Darpana Academy of Performing Arts based in Gujarat, India, shares how her mother started the Darpana Academy in the 1946. Due to its disrepute of being associated with the Devadasi tradition and the British rule, Bharatanatayam had a... View Details
- 19 Jan 2021
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Sunil Bharti Mittal
Sunil Bharti Mittal, Founder and Chairman of Bharti Enterprises, discusses entering the telecommunications industry by creating India’s first pushbutton phones in the early 1980s as a result of India banning the import of generators – his previous business. In 1992, he... View Details
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Evelyne White
start-up with limited resources. Your product is intently geographical. Concentrate on markets large enough to become profitable where you have no competition so you can spend your energy running the business rather than fighting wars. If... View Details
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Gabriela Cabrera
Gabriela Cabrera, President of Manos del Uruguay, describes how five women established the non-profit in 1968, challenging social expectations and employing rural communities throughout the country. View Details
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Madhav Chavan & Rukmini Banerji
Dr. Madhav Chavan, Co-Founder and President of Pratham Education Foundation, reflects on the early strategies that the organization employed in the 1990’s, when there were few NGOs working on education in India. View Details