Team
Our Professional Team Values
- Team above Self
- Excellence above Perfection
- Empathy above Judgement
- Learning above Criticism
- Results above Titles
- Impact above Rhetoric
- Transformation above Status quo
- Inclusion above Exclusion
Meet The Founder
Toyosi Ariyo
CEO & Founder
Toyosi is the ground-breaking founder and CEO of Diaspora World, a finTech democratising access to finance for SMEs and opening up Diaspora finance opportunities.
Toyosi is a visionary leader with an outstanding top-tier investment banking track record of turning around large, complex, multi-year, and multi-million-dollar global programmes working in close partnerships with a wide range of customers. Toyosi has a strategic mindset and is skilled at quickly building high-performing teams renowned for delivery success and innovation.
Toyosi has significant experience influencing and advising Business and IT Stakeholders at the most senior levels, with the ability to navigate complex organisational and cultural contexts to achieve required objectives. Toyosi possesses the rare dual ability to shape the big picture and exceptional attention to detail to dive into complex problems that may be blocking progress. Toyosi is passionate about using Finance and Technology to make an impact in the lives of others.
Meet The Advisory Board
Jesse Zigmund
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Board Member B
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Jessica Hope, Founder & CEO, Wimbart
Jessica is the Founder of Wimbart. She started Wimbart in 2014 and has gone on to build the leading Africa tech focussed PR agency, working with over 100 of the continent’s most exciting and well-funded brands and companies.
She graduated from the University of Manchester with a BA in History and MA in Religion & Politics, and worked as a journalist & editor for a number of years. Prior to starting her own PR company, Jessica worked at the Natural History Museum, the Jewish Museum, and was Head of Communications for African entertainment brand IROKO.
With over 15 years' experience in communications, Jessica regularly gives industry talks, sits on and moderates panels, and gives interviews on the subject of comms and strategy in Africa’s technology space. She was named in PRWeek UK's Powerbook 2019-23, she is a mentor for UK-based BME PR Pros, and also for Google Launchpad Africa and was recognised as one of Provoke Media’s EMEA “Innovators to Watch” in 2021.
