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Obi Ozor

Obi is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kobo360, a technology company focusing on logistics. Obi leads the product development and execution team which is responsible for powering the supply chain of more than two thousand businesses including Nestle, Maersk Line, Dangote, DHL Global Forwarding, UPS Supply Chain, Shoprite, Flour Mills, Jumia and many of other companies both on the demand and supply side. Kobo continues to add to the economic development of the continent with more than 4200 direct and indirect jobs created within its one year of existence. It also helps in public sector where it has built Call-up Logic for the Nigeria Port Authority, and this has helped save the bureau more than $1.6 billion monthly. Obi is a graduate of the prestigious University of Pennsylvania – The Wharton School of Business. He is an advocate of entrepreneurship and leadership as the main avenue to solve the huge economic challenges facing our continent. Source: africatechsummit dot com Photo: fo

Ifunanya 'Funa' Maduka

Ifunanya 'Funa' Maduka, a filmmaker, is a former director of international original films at Netflix. She was on the front line of Netflix’s international expansion, launching and expanding the international film offering across more than 100 territories. Her acquisitions brought Netflix its first feature film nominations at both the Golden Globes (Houda Benyamina’s Divines) and the Academy Awards (Ildiko Enyedi’s On Body And Soul). Further notable acquisitions and productions include: Atlantic, I Lost My Body, Happy As Lazzaro, The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind , Calibre, and Lionheart. Maduka also oversaw the French production,  I Am Not an Easy Man, the upcoming Quebecois production from Patrice Laliberte. Funa holds a BA in History from Cornell University and a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard Business School, where she served on the Board of Trustees and as President of the Student Body, respectively. She has also held leadership and strategic position