Global Chamber Africa - Monthly Meet Up: Focus on East Africa

Global Chamber Africa

Monthly Meet-up: East Africa

Join African business leaders every month to discuss cross border business opportunities for you and your business. We share information, knowledge, tips and more as you look to make 2023-2024 your best business years ever.  

Each month we cover opportunities across Africa... usually with a focus on a region, and this time our team leaders in Kenya, Ethiopia and other places from East Africa (and Africa overall) will bring a flavor to the conversation, though all are welcome. Join us!

• Monday, November 20th
• 6pm Kenya / 5pm South Africa / 3pm London / 2pm Accra/Dakar / 10am ET / 7am PT / 4pm Tunis

Where:  ZOOM - register for the link.

Global Chamber members and advisors will be speakers. Join to connect and grow. 

Speakers: 

Selam Ayalew 

Executive Director Global Chamber® Addis Ababa

Selam is a development worker with 15 years of practical working experience in different organizations with various thematic focuses. She has managed and coordinated projects with many organizations including but not limited to TechnoServe, BBC Media Action,UNICEF, Electoral reform Services International (ERIS) and IREX. Selam is a motivated, bright and ambitious person, who is passionate about projects that make a difference - be it at an individual or system level. 

Rebeka Alemayehu Teshome

Founder/Consultant at Rebeka Alemayehu Consulting Services 

Rebeka is a program management professional, leadership coach and M&E specialist. She is a results-oriented and people-focused professional with over 10 years’ experience in Research, Administration, Project Management, Coordination, Monitoring & Evaluation, and Coaching. She has a verifiable history of contributing directly to company growth and expansion throughout her career. As such, she is consistently exceeding budgetary and performance goals and she is adept at achieving maximum operational output with minimal resource expenditure. Professional focal points include potential market and project research, project monitoring, team coordination, progress evaluation, mentoring, key decision-making, business and project strategy, and leadership training and coaching. Link with Rebeka here on Linkedin.

Moderator: 

Cliff Mboya, MBA 

Business Development and Leadership Coach  

Cliff has experience in Business Development with a demonstrated history of working in the international trade and Organisational development industry. Skilled in Negotiation, Business Planning, Analytical Skills, Communication, and Event Management. Strong business development professional with an MBA focused in
Business consultancy, Creation, Developing SME and Startup, Strategic Management, Setting organisational structures, Marketing, and Related Support Services from University of Chichester.

Guest: Imen Oueslati, Ph.D.

Imen Oueslati, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the Center of Biotechnology of Borj-Cédria in Tunisia, where she also holds the position of Head of the Unit of Research Support and Transfer of Technology. With a career spanning nearly two decades, Imen has been a prominent figure in the field of olive biotechnology since 2004.

Throughout her distinguished career, Imen has contributed significantly to the field, evidenced by her extensive list of scholarly publications and successful supervision of numerous students. Her commitment to advancing olive biotechnology has led to collaborations with esteemed research laboratories in Spain, Germany, France, Italy, Greece, and other international centers.

Beyond academia, Imen has ventured into entrepreneurship, leveraging her expertise to establish a company focused on the production of food supplements. Her company utilizes phenolic extracts from various plants, including olives, aromatic and medicinal plants, and perennial plants, incorporating microencapsulation techniques to preserve the bioactive properties of these extracts.

Currently, in the process of procuring essential equipment, Imen is actively seeking government financing to realize the full potential of her entrepreneurial endeavor. The project, rooted in the valorization of olive products and by-products, presents promising avenues for development and innovation.

Global Chamber® is a growing and collaborating community of CEOs, executives and leaders in 525 metro regions around the world... connecting member businesses to new opportunities and advancing growth and success. It's the only chamber of commerce in the world operating in hundreds of locations that helps exporting, importing and investing members to connect through warm introductions to clients, partners, projects and resources. Global Chamber® is a registered trademark of Global Chamber, LLC since 2014.