By Justice Okemgba

The November 2017 edition of CFA’s Startups Hangout, will be the last for this year, is slated to come up on Friday, November 24, 2017 by 5:00pm and this edition will be featuring the second Startups Pitch session in the series.

This is aside the successful entrepreneurs that have been invited to speak to the Startups. They are John Obaro, MD, SystemsPecs (Remita) and Jane Egerton-Idehen, Country Manager, Avanti Satellite Communications.

John Obaro, managing director of SystemSpecs, (Remita), which is today, Nigeria’s leading e-payment provider, through its Remita solution. It is currently the Central bank of Nigeria’s, (CBN), adopted payment gateway for the facilitation of the Federal Government’s Treasury Single Account, (TSA), project, processing about N6billion worth of transactions on Monthly basis.

John Obaro is an alumnus of both Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and University of Lagos as well as the Chief Executive Program, (CEP3), of Lagos Business School.

He has served, at various times, on the Boards of Ministerial Advisory Council on Information and Communication Technology, Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria, Computer Professionals Registration Council of Nigeria, (CPN), and many more.

Jane Egerton-Idehen, Country Manager, Avanti Satellite Communications, has garnered12 years plus experience in the industry. She focuses on bridging the business and technical challenges of managing complex, high-value business relationship in the industry, having managed operations for Multinational telecommunications Companies, such as Nokia Siemens and Ericsson, in countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Jane is a graduate of Electronics Engineering from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, , with an Executive education from Harvard University and an MBA from Warwick Business School.

I have no doubt that attendee Startups will be in a position to learn a lot from these two unique personalities at the forthcoming November edition of CFA’s Startups Hangout.

Last Month, we had Wale Ajisebutu, Vice Chairman/CEO, 21st Century Technologies and Nkiru Balonwu, PhD, Managing Partner, RDF, speak to the attendee Startups on very useful issues that they will need to know and do, to enable them run their budding businesses profitably and successfully.

Some of the other past speakers have also featured prominent successful Nigerian Entrepreneurs, such as Wale Ajisebutu, Vice Chairman/CEO, 21st Century Technologies, Nkiru Balonwu, PhD, Managing Partner, RDF, Austin Okere, Founder, CWG, Banke Alawaye, Country Manager, Praekelt, Chinenye Mba-Uzoukwu, CEO, InfoGraphics, Afolabi Abiodun, CEO, SB Telecoms and Devices, Bolaji Finnih, CEO, TechPreneur Africa and Ommo Clark, CEO, iBez Solutions. Nadu Denloye, PhD, Co-Founder of Telnet and Director,CDNet, Deepankar Rustagi, the Co-founder, VConnect, Adeoye Abodunrin, ED,Xpos Technologies, Simeon Ononobi, Co-Founder, MyAdsGlobal, Helen Anatogu, CEOand Founder, iDea Nigeria, and Yele Okeremi Founder of Precise Financial Systems and others.

Startups that are interested to participate in the Pitch session that will also be coming up during the November edition of the CFA’s Startups Hangout, should visit https://goo.gl/forms/MhXZyVay4A0AeemX2 and register for it.

The November 2017 edition of CFA’s Startups Hangout will be sponsored by TAMS and Remita.

We also thank our Media partners, Guardian Tech, NigeriaCommunications Week, Connectnigeria, ITPulse, Cyber Africa and Technext.ng for their continued support in publicising the event for the benefit of our numerous Startups.

Limited seats are available, hence, you need to register early, to book for a seat at the event.

You can register for the October 2017 edition of CFA’s Startups Hangout @ http://startups.cfatech.ng